Photographs Of Recipients Of Soviet Awards/Service Personnel.

[Tretov]

Wonder if he was excited to get his fifth and sixth one ... :D Time for a change, awarding board?

[Nota Bene]

There are not too many six time Red Star awardees, the other person that comes to mind is Colonel Vasily Silantiev.

Alexei

[Jeffrey Meffert]

I was looking through one of my books of uniforms (as I am fond of doing) and although I've looked at this picture a hundred times, I noticed something for the first time. So the historic question remains: Who did the first "Bunny Ears"? This one dates to 1923 (damn fine uniforms by the way) but did Mathew Brady have a soldier sneak in some bunny ears in his famous battlefield photographs? Did someone keep putting up bunny ears behind the Mona Lisa that DaVinci had to keep painting out?

[deValcourt]

I can't say who was first, but I can say those are some really interesting uniforms - especially the three guys on the far right (excluding the last chap). They remind me of OGPU uniforms, but then I see secret police everywhere.:D

Phillip

[latinmajorac]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Meffert

I was looking through one of my books of uniforms (as I am fond of doing) and although I've looked at this picture a hundred times, I noticed something for the first time. So the historic question remains: Who did the first "Bunny Ears"? This one dates to 1923 (damn fine uniforms by the way) but did Mathew Brady have a soldier sneak in some bunny ears in his famous battlefield photographs? Did someone keep putting up bunny ears behind the Mona Lisa that DaVinci had to keep painting out?

i love looking a picture i have looked at before and finding new thing.s good catch!

[DougD]

Rokossovsky going for a Balloon ride!

[deValcourt]

And look sharp while doing so...;)

Phillip

[DougD]

Great photo circa 1941 showing a Latvian Army officer who has been absorbed into the Red Army. For a short period the Red Army's Latvian Territorial Corps wore the old Latvian uniforms but with Red Army insignia.

[Al-muell]

So, a first post after a looong break.
Here are three pictures of which at least the two of the man in M43 uniform show the same person (I'm not sure about the M35 uniform picture). What's odd is the guy's visor cap. At first I thought he may be a militiaman, especially that his shoulder boards seem to have unusual texture as well, but then there's an obvious diifference in colour between cap's crown and the rest of the uniform. So then VOSO commandant came to my mind, but then again I don's think cap's crown is red. So, is he NKWD man or what?
Thanks in advance

[DougD]

Taking the photo to send home to the parents!