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[Al-muell]

Al-Muell,



I know you are not conducting a poll here, but personally I vote for your first alternative :cool:

One more thing to add to the "against" column: the document signatory's title is written with Latin letters and his grade is in Polish !!! Please show me just one other Soviet award document in which the issuing authority uses a translation of his rank into the recipient's language :rolleyes:



Yes on the very vast majority of documents, there is usually an indication of the printer and the year, sometimes the print run.

Marc

I know that on most doc's You will find info no where, when and by who was the document printed, but do they really put GOST number there?

As for the translation:
I have a 1945 dated document to NCO of the USSR-formed Polish Army (health leave allowance). For obvious reasons it's in russian, but the rank of the NCO is written as "Plyut." being either the transscription of polish "plutonowy" or a translation of this rank to an archaic term: "plyutonyer".
Also few years ago on a well-known site collect***.com there was a stet of documents to Konev. Among them - a Polish Gratitude Letter to Soviet leaders. And in it the ranks of all of those to whom the Polses were greateful were written in Polish.
And after all - There's really not a big difference between polish "podpułkownik" and russian "podpolkovnik"

The word worries me less, as uncommon as it is. About the only context it's used in is "boevaya vyiuchka," for example:
Войска показали высокую боевую выучку на Нижегородском полигоне — Николай Нестеренко — "Нижегородский "Бастион"" — Российская Г�

OK, than I was wrong and this word possibly speaks for the authenticity of this doc.


btw. Was this doc sold? I would swear that there's polish "ł" in the signature, but cannot tell for sure from this picture. Anyway, the typewriter was polish, however in most of the bases of the North Army Group they had a typewriter with polish fonts.