10-21-2009, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2009, 12:00 PM by Jeffrey Meffert.)
Tretov Wrote:Can we have a pic of the complete uniform, pretty please? :thumbsup :)Since you asked so nicely...Hat is actually an m43 (borrowed from General Grachev)
The guards and university graduation badges didn't come with the uniform but fit nicely in some "small screwplate" holes on the right. At some point the star fell out of his China Service Ribbon.
ColGen died heroically swerving his car into the ditch to avoid hitting a bunch of peasant women in the road in July 1953. The fact this occurred a month after Beria's purge may be pure coincidence or may suggest that the this HSU had backed the wrong horse but was respected enough to be allowed to have a hero's death rather than be part of a show trial.












