09-06-2006, 04:51 AM
Alfred Wrote:Here is a picture of the badge.
The badge was awarded primarily to prison guards and managers who supervised construction of the huge complex of hydroelectric dams. Like most other large scale projects of the period, it was built almost exclusively by prisoners.
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Andreas
Guten Morgen,Andreas!
From where do you have the infos? Also from the net? How many of them were issued in that short period?
Cheers!
A little update:
Although technically not an NKVD badge, it was awarded almost exclusively to NKVD prison guards who supervised construction of the Dneproges hydroelectric dam. The dam was considered the cornerstone project of the First Five-Year Plan and one of the most important parts of Stalin's industrialization program. The working conditions of the prisoners on the Dneprostroy were especially inhuman, whereas the dam was promoted by media around the world as a great marvel and magnificent achievement of socialist government.
