11-20-2012, 05:45 PM
desantnik Wrote:Considering conditions in wartime Stalinist Soviet Union, there may have been draconian penalties for sub-standard work. It may have been easier for all parties involved to ship it out to the front if it passed visual inspection.
But if the award was issued, the number present is what would have been recorded, right? So in theory, the ORB with the 2 million number(of course inscribed in error), would have been recorded in the Orders Booklet and archives? It is not like the person issuing out the awards knows order sequence, right?












