Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 certificate_of_authenticity Twelve Year Service Award (gilt

Twelve Year Service Award (gilt fine zinc)

one clip exhibits oxidation on the reverse

with a violet-tinted background and illustrating two groups of soldiers

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Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 certificate_of_authenticity Twelve Year Service Award (gilt( ). Instituted February 2nd, 1943. A circular brass medal, the obverse depicting the leftward facing busts of Lenin and Stalin, circumscribed To a Partisan of the Patriotic War in Russian script with a five pointed star and the inscription USSR at the base, the reverse bears the Hammer and Sickle over the inscription For our Soviet Motherland in Russian script, suspended from a pentagonal mounted ribbon with an aluminum core and horizontal pinback,