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Brezhnev Uniform and awards - Christophe - 05-01-2003
In fact, no precise datation from the IWM...
Ch.
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - Christophe - 05-01-2003
Better pic...
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - charlet - 05-01-2003
well, Leonid Illitch was the first of all of us...a great collector of soviet and communist medals!!!
speciality: gather all 1st classes if possible!! 2 orders of hungary national flag with diams, 3 heros of the ddr with karl-marx order, order of the star of yougoslavia specail class, etc...
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - Christophe - 05-01-2003
Any idea (or regulatory reason) why his multiple HSUs don't appear on his uniform ?
Ch.
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - charlet - 05-01-2003
Leonid must have had wearer copies made specially for him, but how many? not enough to be given to the IWM it seem. I don't see traces of holes...
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - Christophe - 05-01-2003
Absolutely no hole or trace on his uniform !!
:confused:
Ch.
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - DougD - 05-01-2003
I would be suspect of this unifom that it was gotten from a house worker, etc.
Anyway, the other correction is that by the end of the war he was nopt a colonel but made a major general and wore a VP generals uniform to the Victory Parade.
DD
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - Christophe - 05-01-2003
Good points, Doug.
Who knows if there are other Brezhnev uniforms on display (where, in which museums, etc...) ?
Does anyone know where to find a comprehensive list ?
Ch.
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - charlet - 05-01-2003
Hi Doug and you all, what worries me with this uniform (altough the IWM is for me a GREAT reference) is the visor cap: the band is very tall, the badge doesn't touch the upper tip of the band like in the huge majority of photos I've seen-make me think to 90' non soviet visor cap with huge band and crown (it's for me a warning light) (for ref, I only got a xerox of yazov, p361 of kutsenko's "marshall and admirals...)"
From that distance , embroidery looks correct...
Anotehr detail: they changed his BK3 ribbon for a nevski one!
I don't like put doubts about such an institution like the IWM..
can anybody scan the good classic pic of Illitch (Kutsenko p.61)?
Brezhnev Uniform and awards - charlet - 05-01-2003
comparing photos, the set seems a bit low compared to the lappels, the ribbons are by rows of 6 instead of 5 on officials portraits and the order of foreign ribbons is not the same.