05-01-2003, 08:00 AM
In fact, no precise datation from the IWM...
Ch.
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05-01-2003, 11:22 AM
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...
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)
05-01-2003, 12:08 PM
Any idea (or regulatory reason) why his multiple HSUs don't appear on his uniform ?
Ch.
05-01-2003, 01:07 PM
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...
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)
05-01-2003, 01:16 PM
Absolutely no hole or trace on his uniform !!
:confused: Ch. 
05-01-2003, 02:12 PM
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
05-01-2003, 02:28 PM
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.
05-01-2003, 02:39 PM
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)?
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)
05-01-2003, 02:43 PM
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.
Sebastien
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