Very interesting find - a Russian museum devoted to peacekeeping operations!
Inside you can find some very interesting information regarding: (as the site states):
First Soviet Peacekeepers November 1973 the first group of 36 Soviet officers was enlisted into UNTSO (in Russian)
UN Operation in Congo
UN Operation in Angola
Sergey Shashkov, senior officer of Russian UNMOs in Angola gives his version of the operation (in Russian)
http://www.un-museum.ru/index-e.php
List of the First Group of Soviet UN Military Observers Awarded
with UN Medal "In the Service of Peace" 31 May, 1974.
Is here:
http://www.un-museum.ru/deyatel/gallery/spisok.htm
Soviet and Russian Peacekeepers awarded with the UN Medal «In the Service of Peace» in 1973–2003:
http://www.un-museum.ru/deyatel/gallery/index-e.php
And a badge:
Inside you can find some very interesting information regarding: (as the site states):
First Soviet Peacekeepers November 1973 the first group of 36 Soviet officers was enlisted into UNTSO (in Russian)
UN Operation in Congo
UN Operation in Angola
Sergey Shashkov, senior officer of Russian UNMOs in Angola gives his version of the operation (in Russian)
http://www.un-museum.ru/index-e.php
List of the First Group of Soviet UN Military Observers Awarded
with UN Medal "In the Service of Peace" 31 May, 1974.
Is here:
http://www.un-museum.ru/deyatel/gallery/spisok.htm
Soviet and Russian Peacekeepers awarded with the UN Medal «In the Service of Peace» in 1973–2003:
http://www.un-museum.ru/deyatel/gallery/index-e.php
And a badge:
Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party--forward to new victories in the construction of communism!
