04-08-2018, 07:47 AM
The US-made LL buttons I have seen were only the non-general ones (with star and H&S) and they were made of plastic-like material.
If, for example an officer serving abroad (like in DDR for example) was promoted to general, or simply the uniform reform was implemented duringhis service there, he would as usual get thematerial and money to go to a GUT store to have a newuniform tailored for him. With the central planning, I find it verylikely that a voentorg outside USSR would not have any stock of general's buttons, so they would have to order it localy. So, a design goes to the factory and they see that the seal on them is asymetric - so to make it look better, and correct the "mistake", they add one more ribbon. Noone cares - or takes a notice for that matter. This is how I see it, but that doesn't mean it had to be that way. Nor did it have to be in GDR. The button actually makes me think of Czechoslovak buttons.
And if they knew... Well, my parents (and to some extent, so did I) grew up in the Warsaw Pact country, they had obligatory Russian classes and were quite well educated, but still they had no idea what the ribbons on the Soviet seal stood for. Nor did my grandfather who spent a few years in USSR and even had a short service period in the Red Army. That wasn't a very common knowledge, unless someone was educated from the early years in the USSR.
If, for example an officer serving abroad (like in DDR for example) was promoted to general, or simply the uniform reform was implemented duringhis service there, he would as usual get thematerial and money to go to a GUT store to have a newuniform tailored for him. With the central planning, I find it verylikely that a voentorg outside USSR would not have any stock of general's buttons, so they would have to order it localy. So, a design goes to the factory and they see that the seal on them is asymetric - so to make it look better, and correct the "mistake", they add one more ribbon. Noone cares - or takes a notice for that matter. This is how I see it, but that doesn't mean it had to be that way. Nor did it have to be in GDR. The button actually makes me think of Czechoslovak buttons.
And if they knew... Well, my parents (and to some extent, so did I) grew up in the Warsaw Pact country, they had obligatory Russian classes and were quite well educated, but still they had no idea what the ribbons on the Soviet seal stood for. Nor did my grandfather who spent a few years in USSR and even had a short service period in the Red Army. That wasn't a very common knowledge, unless someone was educated from the early years in the USSR.
