If NOT State Security/KGB Generals Boards-- Then WHAT?

[Rick Research]

I know that it is universally accepted that State Security generals did NOT wear the blueberry blue branch of service color of ranks up to Colonel, but in my Pile O' Mystery Objects from the mid 1990s are these :

First up, on a Generals' 11 Republics buttons 1943-46 white summer Kitel, perhaps a bit hard to tell since the scan is dark from being attached to the tunic---


blueberry blue underlay! :yow