02-06-2012, 09:54 PM
hello gentlemen,
maybe I'm wrong, as I don't master czech language and english langage not really better, but I'd love to expose you another hypothesis.
I believe ZNB is the slovakian traduction of SNB ( Zbor Narodnej Bezpecnosti in slovaks documents, Sbor Narodni Bezpecnosti in czech docs). SNB and ZNB are the same identical Minister for Internal affairs, as it was cut in two national pieces to deserve the federal structure of the former Tchecoslovakia and the langage seperation (a thing we could see in the multi langage docs of Yugoslavia and USSR). So there was an Interior Ministry for Socialist Slovakian Republik and an Interior Ministry of Socilaist Czech republik.
I do have two groups of policewomen, one czech and the other slovakian, with same medals and same docs, except for the acronyms SNB/ZNB on medals and docs.
I have docs and books of the period which indicate some identical medals were stamped in both langages.
About the rarity of the medals: they're fairly common, as for most of the Police medals and awards of the former eastern bloc. I'm convinced these medals were made for the police services, so the equivalent of the soviet MVD/MOOP, east-german MdI.
I don't know the exact structures of the czesch state security organs, but at best political services did not deserve a whole ministry like it was the case in Bulgaria, GDR and USSR, and were a service in the whole SNB/ZNB.
I can show you pictures of the slovak group, and I'm waiting for the last piece of a czech group .
Philip, about the easthetics and variety of czech awards of all kinds - I respectfully disagree with you. With the Husak's "normalization", like all others socialists countries, the CSSR did continue to flow loyal communists and workers with thousands of table medals, badges and tinies, without let's no forget some new extremly rare and beautiful variations of state orders (Republic order, Fraternity order, Victorious February order)... About socialist easthetics and design, the czech school was often really close to soviet and east german modernism.
the medal of ZNB:
maybe I'm wrong, as I don't master czech language and english langage not really better, but I'd love to expose you another hypothesis.
I believe ZNB is the slovakian traduction of SNB ( Zbor Narodnej Bezpecnosti in slovaks documents, Sbor Narodni Bezpecnosti in czech docs). SNB and ZNB are the same identical Minister for Internal affairs, as it was cut in two national pieces to deserve the federal structure of the former Tchecoslovakia and the langage seperation (a thing we could see in the multi langage docs of Yugoslavia and USSR). So there was an Interior Ministry for Socialist Slovakian Republik and an Interior Ministry of Socilaist Czech republik.
I do have two groups of policewomen, one czech and the other slovakian, with same medals and same docs, except for the acronyms SNB/ZNB on medals and docs.
I have docs and books of the period which indicate some identical medals were stamped in both langages.
About the rarity of the medals: they're fairly common, as for most of the Police medals and awards of the former eastern bloc. I'm convinced these medals were made for the police services, so the equivalent of the soviet MVD/MOOP, east-german MdI.
I don't know the exact structures of the czesch state security organs, but at best political services did not deserve a whole ministry like it was the case in Bulgaria, GDR and USSR, and were a service in the whole SNB/ZNB.
I can show you pictures of the slovak group, and I'm waiting for the last piece of a czech group .
Philip, about the easthetics and variety of czech awards of all kinds - I respectfully disagree with you. With the Husak's "normalization", like all others socialists countries, the CSSR did continue to flow loyal communists and workers with thousands of table medals, badges and tinies, without let's no forget some new extremly rare and beautiful variations of state orders (Republic order, Fraternity order, Victorious February order)... About socialist easthetics and design, the czech school was often really close to soviet and east german modernism.
the medal of ZNB:
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
