87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

[Simon]

In Transbaikalia very old man dealt with the 35-year-old criminal who broke into his house in the village of Casanova to profit the military orders.
Late at night, a wounded pensioner with difficulty reached his neighbors. The old man, standing on the doorstep, was literally bleeding. Hand clutching the wound in his chest, barely living veteran admitted that he killed a man.

Police arrived following a call, found on the floor of Pavel Vasilyevich Veretelnikov's house a man's body.

- The investigation suggests that the veteran killed a thief in self-defense. It's preliminary found that on the night of May 21, previously convicted villager Paul P. entered the house of a veteran and demanded money and valuables, threatening him with a knife - said "Your Day" senior assistant SU IC on Transbaikalian edge Yegor ******.

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As it turned out, the villain with a knife in his hand reached into the house of lonely old man, not expecting to get an adequate resistance from ailing veteran. But the robber clearly underestimated the war hero.

Small savings for "to the death" and military awards - that's all the wealth of Pavel Vasilyevich.

But when the veteran realized he could lose his orders, he, as a young man at the front, went after the robber, ran, not even thinking about that he faced a bandit who will stop at nothing. Not expecting resistance, robber struck the old man with a knife in his chest, but the veteran contrived, snatched weapon and plunged the blade into stomach of a villain.

The wounded, bleeding old man somehow made it to the neighbors. Hardly living grandfather was taken to hospital.

[CtahhR]

He can chalk up another invader!

If only all the 87 year olds were so agile.

[PaulR]

I love this type of story!

I do recognize the OGPW, but I do not recognize many of the medals he is wearing on the other side. I do see a couple of anniversary medals and a Labor Veteran Medal, but the rest, I do not recognize. Also, he seems to be missing a few things as well(VoG/VoJ and etc).

[CtahhR]

You may want to have a look through the "Umalatova" section of the Post-Soviet States.

"Umalatova" Awards - The Soviet Military Awards Page Forum
We have them all here at the Soviet Awards Forum! No need to stab anyone.

[deValcourt]

The whole top row with the same color ribbons has me. The all look like the Yugoslavian bravery medal to me.

The shock worker/5-year plan pins scattered on both sides and the military forces anniversary and GPW jubilee medals as well as a veteran of labor are the only ones I recognize.

Perhaps its just bad lighting.

Phillip

[medals73]

Yep, there seems to be a lot of non-official stuff.

[CtahhR]

The fact of the matter is with the Soviet Union being gone 21 years a great deal of living veterans will have more post-Soviet awards than Soviet awards on their chests.

The Russian Federal and Departmental awards and also not the most common sights with all the organisations and Ms. Umalatova decorating anyone with the funds to be decorated.

If anyone intends to collect groups to Soviet Patriotic War Veterans that continued to live after the fall of the Soviet Union they will definitely have to familiarise themselves with not only the State but Organisational awards of all former Soviet nations. There are Medals that cover the entire CIS, some cover most, some cover single countries and some are even more specific.

Russia and Ukraine are the first nations I would suggest familiarising.

We have a rather large area dedicated to this post 1991 awards on the forum and these awards were and are awarded to veterans of the Patriotic War.