Badge "Leader Of The International Socialist Competition".

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Hello collector friends

Who knows more about that badge? Help is needed :)

Thank you very much ;)

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I don't believe this is Komsomol but some other organisation. I have a cased one as part of a group to a Bulgarian officer I'll dig out when I get home (which will be a few weeks yet).

They date from the late 1970's or early 1980's if I remember correctly.

As I thought this was awarded by the Central Trade Union Of Member Counties Of The Council For Mutual Economic Assistance. Not the Komsomol nor even the Soviet Union. A general "Warsaw Pact" award.

Awarded to Ivan Georgiev Gr'ncharov on 4th May 1985.

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Here it is in its plastic case - Beware the foam backing behind the red cloth it will have perished.

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The Badge itself. What is missing from the previous picture is the Moscow Mint Mark - a sign of quality which will also confuse people into thinking it is a Soviet award.