Lenin's Badge?
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Lenin's Badge?
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12-05-2003, 05:00 PM
In some pictures, Lenin is wearing a badge/pin. Do any of you know what it was?
Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party--forward to new victories in the construction of communism!
12-06-2003, 04:00 PM
A very good point, Tal. I haven´t seen Lenin with that pin, but i have seen him with a red ribbon in the same place.
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Are now parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again 
12-24-2003, 02:37 PM
On the same pic, but with a better quality and definition, it terribly looks like a simple button...
 Specifically if you consider that you can see what looks like another button of the coat on his right side !! Am I wrong ? Ch. Tal Inbar Wrote:In some pictures, Lenin is wearing a badge/pin. Do any of you know what it was? 
12-24-2003, 05:29 PM
Yep,
it looks like that the mysterious badge seems to be only a button! Jussi-Pekka 
12-24-2003, 05:33 PM
:eek: It's a camera flash effect...
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
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12-24-2003, 07:46 PM
HuliganRS Wrote::eek: It's a camera flash effect... A shame, and instructive, but Esteban still has a good point: I, too, recall seeing photos of him with what seems to have been a red ribbon rosette in the same general location, the same idea as worn behind all the early red banner orders. Not that Lenin was awarded any of these orders (?), but we may be seeing the origin of this rosette style of backing to the very non-Imperial unribboned screwback orders? Ed
12-24-2003, 08:28 PM
Maybe Lenin kept that rosette just as the symbol of revolution?
During the revolution and after that a red ribbon rosette or a red piece of textile was used in a quite large scale to show that you support the reds instead the whites. Many "ordinary" people used them for just security reasons, not for a political reasons. People copied that habit from the communists. Jussi-Pekka
12-24-2003, 08:39 PM
I think Jussi-Pekka is right about it being just a rosette...
Here are a few pics:
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
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12-24-2003, 09:29 PM
Yes, fine, but to what degree did this practice become the model for the backing rosettes on the first orders? Isn't this the origin? OK, we may never know, but . . . ?
Ed
12-24-2003, 09:35 PM
Ed,
I always thought it was there to protect the clothing from award itself and it's/their edges. You have to keep in mind that at that time most men only had one jacket where they displayed the awards and the hole tended to rip/cut the jacket so the rosette helped to keep the award in place and prolong the life of the jacket. Rusty.
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