09-09-2013, 10:50 AM
I have found that most "Labour Front" selections omit the 1965 award. Indicating that the 20th was more a military orientated award. The 30th and 40th have both a military and civilian variant.
Come to think of it, I don't think there is a a LVOG group in the collection where they also got the 20th Anniversary Medal without either also receiving the VOG or being in service in 1965 or both. It will take a long time to check this though.
After checking the "groups" of 585 Soviet citizens, 16 fell into the "Labour Front" without VOG or serving in 1965. Of those 16 groups only a single recipient also received the 1965. She had also received a Defence Of Caucasus from the Georgian SSR Supreme Soviet. Both her 30 and 40 commemoratives are "Labour Front".
Thinking on this bar a little bit more it could also have been someone working on the Railways. Assisting in the transportation of materiel to the battlezones. NKPS service personnel were not "military". There were armoured trains, (re)construction trains, Railway troops and NKGB transport units that were mostly classed as "military". Then again there is a group in the collection to a locomotive driver of a reconstruction train who is classed as "Labour Front". I don't really see the driver and his fireman getting the train up to speed and then leaning out of the cab with PPSH-41s - outside of a Hollywood film.
Come to think of it, I don't think there is a a LVOG group in the collection where they also got the 20th Anniversary Medal without either also receiving the VOG or being in service in 1965 or both. It will take a long time to check this though.
After checking the "groups" of 585 Soviet citizens, 16 fell into the "Labour Front" without VOG or serving in 1965. Of those 16 groups only a single recipient also received the 1965. She had also received a Defence Of Caucasus from the Georgian SSR Supreme Soviet. Both her 30 and 40 commemoratives are "Labour Front".
Thinking on this bar a little bit more it could also have been someone working on the Railways. Assisting in the transportation of materiel to the battlezones. NKPS service personnel were not "military". There were armoured trains, (re)construction trains, Railway troops and NKGB transport units that were mostly classed as "military". Then again there is a group in the collection to a locomotive driver of a reconstruction train who is classed as "Labour Front". I don't really see the driver and his fireman getting the train up to speed and then leaning out of the cab with PPSH-41s - outside of a Hollywood film.
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