Stefan, thanks for the pic. Im not clear what these are worth but I was looking on a Russian MIl site yesterday and I don't know if my eyes betrayed what I saw but I could swear that these sell for in excess of about a mere $350,000????

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Another I like is another nice looking badge and I don't know the proper name for it but I think the "Man-on-the-medal's" last name is Kuhlmetzky or something like that? I'll try checking and post back here what the correct name is.

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The order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky?



how about the 'order of Victory' for gaudy:



There are loads more to choose from, I rather like the order of Suverov:

Orders, decorations, and medals of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Fan of the blood donor medals.

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Only 18 Orders of Victory was issued, so I doubt you'll find many on the market at whatever price

Zhukov had two!

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True true, but still, they must be worth millions with the sheer amount of stone-work and platinum on them.

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Thanks for these as well Stefan ;-))

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If im not mistaken, I think one of these was awarded to General Ike.

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That's right. Here's a complete list.

Two-time recipients
Joseph Stalin
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Georgy Zhukov

One-time recipients
Aleksei Antonov
Leonid Govorov
Ivan Konev
Rodion Malinovsky
Kirill Meretskov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Semyon Timoshenko
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Leonid Brezhnev (Awarded in 1978, revoked in 1989) ( the same a$$ hole who awarded himself 5 Stars of HSU!))

Foreign recipients
Dwight Eisenhower (United States)
Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
Bernard Montgomery (United Kingdom)
Michal Rola-Zymierski (Poland)
Michael I of Romania (the last living recipient)

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Hey I thought the commies did not want luxuries and wanted to share everything? Their medals are worth millions.

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Commies will want whatever they think people can't get to but hey, that's their way not anyone elses.

Hearts and minds, Skipper, hearts and minds

In any case after recipient's death these high value orders (same as Marshal Stars, see below) are returned to the State Diamond Fund (which ought to be a sight to see).



Here is the Star of Marshal of the SU hanging from Vasilevsk's neck. Gold, platinum, diamonds.

You can see 5 Orders of Lenin. More platinum Not to mention the 2 Orders of Victory, 2 plus a lot more.

Gen George C. Patton the Russky Baiter was awarded an Order of Suvorov 1st Class, IIRC. Look at this list (non-ehaustive):

This comes from The Soviet Military Awards Page Forum , now there's a new home for both of us, I and The Red Rabbi.

So you see from the above, there's a lot of people implicated , I wonder what Joe Mccarthy did about all these dangerous Communist Sympathizers!

Now, see the difference between adding content and shooting one's mouth off?

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Roguettes? Sounds like a Orchastra or a "Boy-Band" personally either of which I would be delighted to see some explosions!

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When in doubt, try Google.

Tsk tsk, how wrong you are...

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Lol, I know but still.

You've gotta admit it.

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Thanks for the list of names. Im working on a list of names of Americans who were awarded various Soviet awards in WWII. One thing I can factually say, is that no American was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. This info was attained by an esteemed Gent who is a member of a hidden Militaria site, that only three of us here are members of.

Anyway, this Gent goes by the name of Doc, and he, himself, has writen at least one book on the subject. I hope to sometime soon, have the list of names here. I can at this time, get the info on how many and of what Soviet awards were given to Americans--if there is any interest here? As far as I know, none of that info is available on any other site? but, I have not tried researching that yet for lack of time.

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Well, of course I'd be interested, Carl.

The Soviet criterium for awards fluctuated a lot, there were the purely military orders, like the Suvorov, Kutusov, A. Nevsky, Patriotic War, etc. and there were the political orders that might or not have military connotations, like the Hero of the SU, Lenin, Red Banner, etc.

These - I suspect! - were mostly awarded to already members of the CPSU or other foreign Communist dignitaries, therefore I suppose American recipients would be quite rare (unless you're Sen. Joe McCarthy who looked under his bed to see if there were any Commies beneath - and guess what! there were!).

I have somewhere a list of all the recipients of the HSU, and as far as my Cyrillic holds, I have seen few Western names (Kim Philby, Ramon Mercader spring to mind... )



Ahhh, the only photos I find of Patton's right breast are of Gorge Scott!

(It seems he liked my haircut!)

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If I were a Soviet Officer I'd wear the medals to battle, they'd glitter and make the ennemy believe I am a whole division, they would blind snipers and make a great bullet proof jacket too! If I wanted to start a diet I'd just take off my medals and if I wanted to work out I'd lift my medals.

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