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There are many pics of him - an in each one he carries his awards in a different way. I took this templare only for the upper row...
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Absolutely is there a time when soldiers would only wear the ribbon or has he lost it in the pictures??
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42. Day, January 29, 2021
It continues with this medal ...:
Its official name was "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945", but because it bore a portrait of the host, it was often simply called the "Stalin Medal".
The medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" was awarded to all military and civilian employees of the Red Army, the Navy and the NKVD troops who were directly involved in the fight against Germany on the various fronts.
Means: This medal was awarded to more than 14.9 million people!
Exceptions were, of course, members of the "Shtrafroty" (punitive units), as well as soldiers who were in prisons or camps.
The vast majority of these poor pigs had nothing to do with fault, except: to have ended up in German captivity.
This was done - according to Stalin's express will! - Considered "treason" and treats people accordingly.
The award of the medal was made on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the basis of documents proving actual participation in the Great Patriotic War, by commanders of the units, the heads of military medical institutions or the executive committees of regional or city soviets ...:
Pensioners from military service received the medal from a regional, municipal or regional military commissioner in the recipient's community - in each case as part of a short but solemn ceremony.
After I was through with the "Stalin Medal", I unpacked my sculpting stuff again and made a small change to the medals!
Our hero wears an unusual medal, almost in the armpit, whose ribbon shows the colors of the Russian tricolor and whose pendant consists of a white cross ...:
The thing is quite sloppily infected and is not in line.
Now I am sure that I know what I am dealing with - and the story is quite interesting - I reworked ...:
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It continues with this medal ...:
Its official name was "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945", but because it bore a portrait of the host, it was often simply called the "Stalin Medal".
The medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" was awarded to all military and civilian employees of the Red Army, the Navy and the NKVD troops who were directly involved in the fight against Germany on the various fronts.
Means: This medal was awarded to more than 14.9 million people!
Exceptions were, of course, members of the "Shtrafroty" (punitive units), as well as soldiers who were in prisons or camps.
The vast majority of these poor pigs had nothing to do with fault, except: to have ended up in German captivity.
This was done - according to Stalin's express will! - Considered "treason" and treats people accordingly.
The award of the medal was made on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the basis of documents proving actual participation in the Great Patriotic War, by commanders of the units, the heads of military medical institutions or the executive committees of regional or city soviets ...:
Pensioners from military service received the medal from a regional, municipal or regional military commissioner in the recipient's community - in each case as part of a short but solemn ceremony.
After I was through with the "Stalin Medal", I unpacked my sculpting stuff again and made a small change to the medals!
Our hero wears an unusual medal, almost in the armpit, whose ribbon shows the colors of the Russian tricolor and whose pendant consists of a white cross ...:
The thing is quite sloppily infected and is not in line.
Now I am sure that I know what I am dealing with - and the story is quite interesting - I reworked ...:
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Hi Martin
Another medal is finished nice work on both ribbon and actual medal ........
One done ....another added .....good putty work
Thanks for references again
Look forward to the story on the new cross
Out of interest any idea what the medal sitting on the ribbon is on the top row # 1 & 2 ?
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Another medal is finished nice work on both ribbon and actual medal ........
One done ....another added .....good putty work
Thanks for references again
Look forward to the story on the new cross
Out of interest any idea what the medal sitting on the ribbon is on the top row # 1 & 2 ?
Happy benchtime
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Hi Kev!
First one: Jubelee medal "50 years armed forces of the Soviet Union 1918 - 1968"...:
Second: "Stalin medal" as described...:
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First one: Jubelee medal "50 years armed forces of the Soviet Union 1918 - 1968"...:
Second: "Stalin medal" as described...:
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Good point Phil ...probably in the drawer with the rest not worn !!!
Loving this SBS from Martin
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The guard badge was only worn by units that had earned the guard title in battle.
In 1945 the total strength of the Red Army was 227 rifle divisions and 302 armored and mechanized brigades.
During the Second World War, a total of eleven regular armies and six tank armies (= 132 divisions) were appointed guard units.
Thus, the proportion of guard units was less than a third of the total strength.
(Figures from 1945, at the end of the war).
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Thanks Martin
Was asking about the medal resting on the ribbons here
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Was asking about the medal resting on the ribbons here
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Hi Kev,
well, I can "translate" one for you right now, for I did some research because I still have to paint it myself:
It's about the city of Moscow - not the Russian state! - awarded commemorative medal "65th Anniversary of the Battle of Moscow" ...:
Our friend seems to have lost the "65", which actually belongs on the ribbon ...
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well, I can "translate" one for you right now, for I did some research because I still have to paint it myself:
It's about the city of Moscow - not the Russian state! - awarded commemorative medal "65th Anniversary of the Battle of Moscow" ...:
Our friend seems to have lost the "65", which actually belongs on the ribbon ...
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And here's the second one you looked for, Kev...:
Award "For Bravery And Determination In The Great Patriotic War", that was awarded to Veterans of the Second World War on the event of the 25th Anniversary of Victory in 1970...:
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Award "For Bravery And Determination In The Great Patriotic War", that was awarded to Veterans of the Second World War on the event of the 25th Anniversary of Victory in 1970...:
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Hi Martin
Good morning ...thank you for the details .......to add the "65" or not is the question .....lol
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Good morning ...thank you for the details .......to add the "65" or not is the question .....lol
Happy benchtime
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I'm not going to do it because I want to portray the guy as he looks in the photos ...
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43. Day, January 30, 2021
The third medal in the top row of our hero is the battle award "For the capture of Königsberg" ...:
The completely senseless slaughter for the East Prussian capital ...
... lasted 81 hours!
On April 6, 1945 the Soviet assault on the encircled capital of East Prussia started ...:
The German defenders...
... knew what to expect:
The Soviet artillery had been bombing their improvised positions for several days. From 5200 guns, grenade launchers and Stalin organs, countless projectiles fell on the around 20 old forts from the 19th century and the trenches in which they were entrenched.
The approximately 30,000 operational German soldiers could no longer resist: They only had 224 artillery pieces, 160 anti-tank guns and 16 assault guns.
Worse still, there wasn't nearly enough ammunition even for those few tubes. Because Königsberg had been practically encircled for ten weeks.
Despite the hopeless situation, surrender was out of the question - at least not for East Prussia's NSDAP Gauleiter Erich Koch ...:
Koch himself had long took the heels and had hastily "relocated" his headquarters to the port city of Pillau.
There he kept an icebreaker ready to help them escape across the Baltic Sea.
Nevertheless, Koch ordered the Königsberg Wehrmacht commander, General of the Infantry Otto Lasch ...
... to defend the city to the last man!
At that time there were still about 130,000 civilians in the city, as well as a nominal 48,000 members of the Wehrmacht and SS and 5,000 men of the Volkssturm.
Opposite them stood a quarter of a million Soviet soldiers.
At noon on Friday after Easter, the time had come. The storm troops of the 11th Guard Army in the south and the 43rd Army in the north attacked simultaneously. Infantrymen advanced under the protection of heavy tanks that were supposed to shoot down any potential nest of resistance.
The Red Army soldiers quickly succeeded in capturing the extensive railway facilities around the New Central Station south of the Pregel. In the north they interrupted the railway connection to the port of Pillau - the very last escape route on land was blocked.
Although the defenders resisted desperately, they lost fort by fort, street by street ...:
After less than 48 hours of the offensive, both of the Red Army's buttocks had reached the banks of the Pregel and thus cut off Königsberg itself from its western environs. The German defenders controlled just ten square kilometers of the city.
In this situation, chaos broke out. General Lasch ordered preparations to be made for the fortress troops to break out to the west, to the Samland, with the goal of Pillau - in the vague hope that from there they could perhaps be shipped west across the Baltic Sea. Gauleiter Koch refused by phone.
Nevertheless, functionaries of the local NSDAP called on the population to assemble in the west of the city on the road to Pillau. So behind the shock troops an unorganized and defenseless convoy of civilians formed.
It was probably this crowd that caught the eye of the Soviet troops, who had taken up positions north of the Pregel, at around 2 a.m. on April 9th. Before the breakthrough had really started, the 43rd Army brought in artillery and began to shoot the train together.
Those who could, pushed back into the completely bruised city center ...:
After less than 48 hours of the offensive, both of the Red Army's buttocks had reached the banks of the Pregel and thus cut off Königsberg itself from its western surroundings. The German defenders controlled just ten square kilometers of the city.
Only small groups of soldiers and civilians managed to break through to the west, along with a few assault guns. Red Army soldiers closed the siege ring again directly behind them.
In his command bunker under the Paradeplatz north of the old town island, Otto Lasch finally realized that the further defense was no longer useful. He offered the surrender of Königsberg through parliamentarians of the Red Army.
The next photo shows the German general immediately after the surrender ...:
Of course, Erich Koch in Pillau also found out about this - and immediately sent a lying telegram to the Führerbunker in Berlin: “The commander of Königsberg, Lasch, used a moment of my absence from the fortress to cowardly surrender. I keep fighting in Samland and on the Spit. "
Hitler reacted as anticipated by the long-time NSDAP top functionary: he demoted Lasch and sentenced him to death for “cowardice in front of the enemy”. Lasch's family was arrested in Berlin.
The general did not want to and could not reverse his decision. On the evening of April 9, 1945, he received several Soviet officers in his bunker and signed the document of surrender presented to him.
At the original location the moment of the handover is recreated with wax figures, the furniture and the ambience are the original equipment from Lasch's command post ...
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General Lasch became a prisoner of war and came home to Germany in 1955 with the last returnees; he died in 1971 at the age of 78.
Before that, however, he still earned money with the misery for which he was largely responsible by publishing a book ...:
Erich Koch, who ruled in Poland and the occupied Ukraine in addition to East Prussia (and whose bloody rule overshadowed the Vlad Draculas by far!), Left Pillau by ship at the end of April 1945 and went into hiding. Only in 1949 was he exposed and extradited to Poland ...:
Sentenced to death and pardoned to “life”, he died at the age of 90 in 1986 in a Polish prison ...:
I add: I hope his death was long and painful!
The battle for Königsberg had lasted 81 hours. The number of victims is unclear.
The Kaliningrad Oblast, which became an exclave after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is today the last territorial spoil of war of the USSR in Europe ...:
The former Königsberg is named ...
... today after Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin ...
... from 1923 to 1946 as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, formal head of state of the Soviet Union; previously from March 1919 to December 1922 formal (but powerless) head of state of Soviet Russia.
Of the Soviet soldiers who took part in direct combat operations during the assault on Königsberg, 18,064 were killed.
There is no information from the German side - the Soviets, however, put the German losses at 42,000 dead and 92,000 prisoners ...:
The number of civilians who died in Königsberg (many thousands) could never be determined ...
During the fighting for the metropolis, the world-famous "Amber Room" stored in the basement of the palace, which the Nazis had stolen from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg ...
... most likely destroyed by fire ...
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General Lasch became a prisoner of war and came home to Germany in 1955 with the last returnees; he died in 1971 at the age of 78.
Before that, however, he still earned money with the misery for which he was largely responsible by publishing a book ...:
Erich Koch, who ruled in Poland and the occupied Ukraine in addition to East Prussia (and whose bloody rule overshadowed the Vlad Draculas by far!), Left Pillau by ship at the end of April 1945 and went into hiding. Only in 1949 was he exposed and extradited to Poland ...:
Sentenced to death and pardoned to “life”, he died at the age of 90 in 1986 in a Polish prison ...:
I add: I hope his death was long and painful!
The battle for Königsberg had lasted 81 hours. The number of victims is unclear.
The Kaliningrad Oblast, which became an exclave after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is today the last territorial spoil of war of the USSR in Europe ...:
The former Königsberg is named ...
... today after Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin ...
... from 1923 to 1946 as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, formal head of state of the Soviet Union; previously from March 1919 to December 1922 formal (but powerless) head of state of Soviet Russia.
Of the Soviet soldiers who took part in direct combat operations during the assault on Königsberg, 18,064 were killed.
There is no information from the German side - the Soviets, however, put the German losses at 42,000 dead and 92,000 prisoners ...:
The number of civilians who died in Königsberg (many thousands) could never be determined ...
During the fighting for the metropolis, the world-famous "Amber Room" stored in the basement of the palace, which the Nazis had stolen from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg ...
... most likely destroyed by fire ...
Cheers
Hi Martin
WOW!!! That is a horrific story , aweful losses on both sides, Koch leading from as safe a distance as possible and then blaming others with terrible results
As for the medal ribbon , very nicely done my friend , sharp painting , I see you have also primed the new "cross"medal
I find it very interesting to see the actions that resulted in the medals being created and awarded...thank you
Happy benchtime
Stay safe
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WOW!!! That is a horrific story , aweful losses on both sides, Koch leading from as safe a distance as possible and then blaming others with terrible results
As for the medal ribbon , very nicely done my friend , sharp painting , I see you have also primed the new "cross"medal
I find it very interesting to see the actions that resulted in the medals being created and awarded...thank you
Happy benchtime
Stay safe
Nap
I've been through Kaliningrad on the way to Vilnius. Quite scary - the wife and I had just renewed our passports and the new ones were the "next generation" version, quite different from the old ones. The female border staff had not seen anything like them before, so we were sidelined while they consulted with higher authority on whether they were valid or not. Eventually this senior female came out (beautiful, with coiffured hair, gel nails, perfect make-up, but made of pure granite) and told us in good English that we could join our colleagues. Phew. We did get an extra stamp in our passports which helped us on exiting into Lithuania.
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44. Day, January 31, 2021
The next medal I paint today is this one ...:
It's called "Защитнику свободной России", which means "Defender of Free Russia".
This is one of the first medals that the newly founded Russian Federation issued in 1991, and it exemplifies the return to the old Russian iconography - in terms of symbolism, the way from the (Soviet) star and back to the (Russian) cross!
St. George, the patron saint of Russia, can also be seen.
This medal comes in two classes:
The first class consists of a silver medal - and the Saint George ribbon is on the left as shown above.
In the second grade, the medal is brass-colored - and the Saint George ribbon is on the right ...:
Our friend shows a hermaphrodite version! With the ribbon of the 2nd class he wears the silver medal of the 1st class ...:
I took the liberty of giving him the 1st class ribbon that matches the medal ...:
And this is what it looks like on my bust ...:
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The next medal I paint today is this one ...:
It's called "Защитнику свободной России", which means "Defender of Free Russia".
This is one of the first medals that the newly founded Russian Federation issued in 1991, and it exemplifies the return to the old Russian iconography - in terms of symbolism, the way from the (Soviet) star and back to the (Russian) cross!
St. George, the patron saint of Russia, can also be seen.
This medal comes in two classes:
The first class consists of a silver medal - and the Saint George ribbon is on the left as shown above.
In the second grade, the medal is brass-colored - and the Saint George ribbon is on the right ...:
Our friend shows a hermaphrodite version! With the ribbon of the 2nd class he wears the silver medal of the 1st class ...:
I took the liberty of giving him the 1st class ribbon that matches the medal ...:
And this is what it looks like on my bust ...:
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Hi Martin
Nice details again and a higher version from you for our man
Currently trying putting that cross on .....awkward as I have built this fellow up ....would it be okay to put it higher up the shoulder a bit ? ...
UPDATE !!! ...wasn't keen on it there ..so I will have my version wearing it on the bottom row but away and at angle from others
.FYI I will have a hanging strap ...reworked face !
Thanks again for sharing ..great to see each update
Happy benchtime
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Nice details again and a higher version from you for our man
Currently trying putting that cross on .....awkward as I have built this fellow up ....would it be okay to put it higher up the shoulder a bit ? ...
UPDATE !!! ...wasn't keen on it there ..so I will have my version wearing it on the bottom row but away and at angle from others
.FYI I will have a hanging strap ...reworked face !
Thanks again for sharing ..great to see each update
Happy benchtime
Nap
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