Soviet Union

[cyberia]

A Kapitan of the Red Army wearing a quilted "Telogreika" combat jacket & M40 helmet. This jacket provided both warmth without bulk and featured a banded collar and painted metal buttons.

The uniform is topped off with a field-green M40 steel helmet with leather chin strap.

The yellow and red bands on his right chest are wound stripes, yellow for light wounds, red for major ones. Just beneath these is the badge he wears as a member of the Red Guards, a paramilitary strike force that grew out of the armed workers of the Communist revolution.
The ribbon bar on his left breast shows the Medal for Valiant Labor, a high award related to his service in the Red Guards; the Medal for Valor in recognition of personal courage and valor in the defense of the Motherland; the Medal for Distinguished Service in Battle, and the campaign medal for the Defence of Leningrad.

The weapons are the 7.62-mm Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine, for which he wears the standard-issue twin leather ammunition pouches on his belt; and a double-action (officers' issue) Nagant model 1895 revolver, which he carries in a shoulder holster with a built-in ammunition pouch under its flap.

[Jim O]

Was his name was Barry Sergeivich?

Seriously, a great reproduction.

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by Jim O

Was his name was Barry Sergeivich?

Seriously, a great reproduction.

Comrade Barry.

[Geek44]

Check out the size of those epaulettes. Surf's up!

[Wolster]

Thanks for that, interesting stuff. My wife's Grandfather was a Captain in the Soviet Army during the GPW! He fought in Manchuria at the end of the war.

As an aside, I have never known anybody I have personally spoken to, who was in the Soviet Army, refer to it as the 'Red Army'.

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by Wolster

As an aside, I have never known anybody I have personally spoken to, who was in the Soviet Army, refer to it as the 'Red Army'.

Good point, Wolster. "Red Army" was a western term, more political than national.

In the same token, I've never heard a German refer to the Wehrmacht as the "nazi" army.

[McCoy]

A site with a lot of information n' colour drawings of Russian uniforms.

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