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Old 08-15-2008, 12:46 PM   #21
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I think someone flipped the negative...or the rules were much more lax than thought.:)
or he is wearing a womans jacket :_0 cross dressing in the ranks! don't ask don't tell!:laff:laff
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Old 08-15-2008, 01:29 PM   #22
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or he is wearing a womans jacket :_0 cross dressing in the ranks! don't ask don't tell!:laff:laff
One of the reasons given to ban gays in the US military is that they would be too easy to blackmail. I would wonder if the NKVD/KGB left theirs in the service for the same reasons.
Or the negative got reversed.
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Old 08-15-2008, 02:56 PM   #23
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One of the reasons given to ban gays in the US military is that they would be too easy to blackmail. I would wonder if the NKVD/KGB left theirs in the service for the same reasons.
Or the negative got reversed.

something tells me it is a reversed image :-) and he is quite a large captain as well...
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Yes, it was quite usual in soviet photographs to reverse negatives. Why? I don´t know.
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or he is wearing a womans jacket :_0 cross dressing in the ranks! don't ask don't tell!:laff:laff
Hello to everybody and to latinmajorac!

You mentioned "women jacket"... Do you want to see real one women jacket M1955?
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You mentioned "women jacket"... Do you want to see real one women jacket M1955?
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Ok, I show you such jacket. ;)
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Old 09-06-2008, 05:26 PM   #28
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It's shoulder board.
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Old 09-06-2008, 05:28 PM   #29
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It's collar device.
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It can be closed only to one side - to "woman" side.
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