10-12-2002, 07:36 PM
Dietrich,
What a fantastic badge!
It is named to F. Sheremet, employee of a leather making factory in the city of Vasil'kov, so it is most likely a custom design. My guess would be that this factory employed WWI/Civil War invalids, so the rifle and the crutch would probably signify that invalids were protected in the Socialist State. At the same time it may also have an additional connotation that even invalids are still prepared to defend Socialism.
Alexei
What a fantastic badge!
It is named to F. Sheremet, employee of a leather making factory in the city of Vasil'kov, so it is most likely a custom design. My guess would be that this factory employed WWI/Civil War invalids, so the rifle and the crutch would probably signify that invalids were protected in the Socialist State. At the same time it may also have an additional connotation that even invalids are still prepared to defend Socialism.
Alexei
