09-03-2010, 04:15 AM
Well, here's the thing. If it looks too shiny and new - especially with some sort of clear coat over it, I always doubt that it is "Soviet era" as I was told/read about this one.
Now for the big confession: simply for my personal tastes in collecting Mongolian (security mostly) awards, when the USSR was gone, so was my interest in anything made in Mongolia afterward. Since I only collect Soviet and Soviet Bloc awards, anything past 1991 from any former communist country is not of any real interest to me. History for me demands a line in the sand somewhere and since I was raised in America and fed that steady diet of Cold War crap, I really only want to deal with the earlier stuff - with one major exception - the SVR as it survived the breakup of the KGB pretty much intact as the old First Chief Directorate. The FSB is interesting, but it is essentially a "too many chiefs" situation in Russia these days. In fact, they remind me of the Duma during the early 1990s and Zhirinovsky's antics that kept people liking Yeltsin by default.
Did this even come close to answering your question?:weird
Phillip
Now for the big confession: simply for my personal tastes in collecting Mongolian (security mostly) awards, when the USSR was gone, so was my interest in anything made in Mongolia afterward. Since I only collect Soviet and Soviet Bloc awards, anything past 1991 from any former communist country is not of any real interest to me. History for me demands a line in the sand somewhere and since I was raised in America and fed that steady diet of Cold War crap, I really only want to deal with the earlier stuff - with one major exception - the SVR as it survived the breakup of the KGB pretty much intact as the old First Chief Directorate. The FSB is interesting, but it is essentially a "too many chiefs" situation in Russia these days. In fact, they remind me of the Duma during the early 1990s and Zhirinovsky's antics that kept people liking Yeltsin by default.
Did this even come close to answering your question?:weird
Phillip
Phillip
