Collecting East European awards - WHY?

[ericlida]

In light of the increases of prices for USSR awards, I see more and more members of the forum that "converted" their interest to DDR, Yugoslav, Romanian, Bulgarian awards.

My simple question is WHY?

Do you see the historical importance of these awards as equal to USSR awards?

Do you think that QUALITY and esthetic value is the same?

Or, are you thinking just as a collector in the field of militaria, and if you can't buy USSR awards you just switch to other East European countries?

If that is the case for some of you, what will happen when simple DDR pins and badges will be too expensive?

Will you search the globe for a country with cheap awards? Will you STOP collecting awards?


Tal

I purchased several awards of other countries only because they are interesting for me.
For example: Awards of Israel to WWII veterans; Polish awards dedicated to Political Prisoners, Concentration Camps and Holocaust; Mongolian awards (they are just beautiful), etc.
Buying Soviet awards became very expensive. I might expend my collection buying awards of another countries, did not decide yet. I try to collect specific topics, but not all awards of the country (I am not talking about CCCP)
Eric