Marshal of engineers Kharchenko - Page 2

Tretov · 10-11-2004, 01:42 AM

Thanks Eugene! Very appreciated!!!

Seems this guy was not HSU and had no Order of Lenin?

DougD · 10-11-2004, 08:34 AM

Note his new Engineering branch insignia; different ( and not as nice in my opinion) from the WWII era insignia of crossed axes.

DougD

Lapa · 10-11-2004, 12:35 PM

Tretov,

He also seems to have hung his Red Banners in a strange order, the first one on the medal bar seems to have a repeat number on it

Marc

Tretov · 10-11-2004, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lapa

Tretov,

He also seems to have hung his Red Banners in a strange order, the first one on the medal bar seems to have a repeat number on it

Marc

I think it looks like a total mess... You can see a Red Banner of Labor there as well, hanging below the other orders...

and looking in the second row, it is a mess as well

charlet · 10-11-2004, 03:27 PM

well, it is NOT a mess...this honourable guy encountered a banal problem for this kind of award over-loaded high ranking officers...too many medals! can you imagine the pain and the work to re-arrange a medal bar of ten medals in order to introduce a new one? and remember such militaries received nearly regularly new jubilee medals from various friendly countries...so permanent reconstruction of the all medal bars...Poor babooshka, what a pain for her...
More seriously, to such a point many veterans prefered to pin aesthetically the new awards between to medals bars bearing the most ancient and prestigious awards...
A red banner of labor, or the minors medals (hungarian?) are nearly or certainly purely honorific...

About the red banners, what could be the most prestigious ones, following the opinion? the 1-2 first ones, earned in fight during the war, or the 4th-5th, exceptionnaly rare awards reserved to a few generals, earned at the service of soviet army?

10-11-2004, 01:42 AM	#11
Tretov Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Republic of Finland Posts: 1,129	Thanks Eugene! Very appreciated!!! Seems this guy was not HSU and had no Order of Lenin? Last edited by Tretov; 10-11-2004 at 01:45 AM.

10-11-2004, 08:34 AM	#12
DougD Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: NJ Age: 50 Posts: 2,060	boards Note his new Engineering branch insignia; different ( and not as nice in my opinion) from the WWII era insignia of crossed axes. DougD

10-11-2004, 03:27 PM	#15
charlet Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Germany Age: 49 Posts: 791	well, it is NOT a mess...this honourable guy encountered a banal problem for this kind of award over-loaded high ranking officers...too many medals! can you imagine the pain and the work to re-arrange a medal bar of ten medals in order to introduce a new one? and remember such militaries received nearly regularly new jubilee medals from various friendly countries...so permanent reconstruction of the all medal bars...Poor babooshka, what a pain for her... More seriously, to such a point many veterans prefered to pin aesthetically the new awards between to medals bars bearing the most ancient and prestigious awards... A red banner of labor, or the minors medals (hungarian?) are nearly or certainly purely honorific... About the red banners, what could be the most prestigious ones, following the opinion? the 1-2 first ones, earned in fight during the war, or the 4th-5th, exceptionnaly rare awards reserved to a few generals, earned at the service of soviet army? __________________ Sebastien "a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)

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10-11-2004, 12:35 PM	#13
Lapa Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: St Petersburg, Russia Age: 63 Posts: 2,397	Tretov, He also seems to have hung his Red Banners in a strange order, the first one on the medal bar seems to have a repeat number on it Marc

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