07-20-2009, 01:23 PM
kliment Wrote:It's not really variants, the first, with word militsia, are for the omon, intervention forces created in the 80's. the others are milice nco's parade badges.
Here a photo were the two kinds of badges are worn alongside:
At left, the arm of an nco with the parade badge, the omon badge for the two officers with berets at right.
Poor word choice on my part, but variant was used in regards to there being three different patches. The OMON patch did not come into use until the late 1980s only a few years prior to the dissolution of the USSR.
