Jubilee Medal "60 Years Of Victory In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".

[desantnik]

I forgot to add that during the Soviet Union in order to loosen the Moldovan linguistic, cultural ties to Romania Greg mentions above, Soviet linguists "invented" the "Moldovan" language by basically writing Moldovan in cyrillic. The Soviets used this tactic with other republics' languages too.

This aberration has resulted in people today trying to claim Moldovan is an independent language.


This practice fell out of use in the 80's or perhaps a decade earlier, but you still see it occasionally in Moldova and more particularly in Transnistria/Pridnestrovia.

I must admit it's rather disconcerting to expect to read Russian and get a "Romanian" surprise.

[deValcourt]

Originally Posted by Greg Collins

Oh yeah, if you don't already know, "pentru" means "for".

Thanks Greg - I just guessed that's what it meant (it's the "3a" of that region). ;)

Originally Posted by desantnik

I must admit it's rather disconcerting to expect to read Russian and get a "Romanian" surprise.

That's what got me started asking questions. It was my first exposure to anything but "Russian" from this area.

As always, interesting history and contemporary information from both of you. I've seen the Russification of many languages from Mongolia to Moldova.:D It's most common in the "For Excellence in..." badges and ID documents (at least in my corner of the collecting world - education badges).

Now I understand...sort of.:)

Phillip

[CtahhR]

Here is mine. This close up shows just how poor the detail is in comparison to some of the Russian made Medals.