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Afghan grouping

Inviato: sab dic 29, 2018 9:28 pm
da ralph
Hello all - Posted is a grouping I have owned for a number of years and wrote an article about this KGB grouping that was published in 2014 titled "KGB in Afghanistan". I hope this grouping is of interest to you all. Thanks...

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: sab dic 29, 2018 10:48 pm
da komsomol
Really exceptionnal grouping. I bought specially the JOMSA containing this very article.

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: sab dic 29, 2018 11:07 pm
da ralph
Thanks much for your comments and I hope you found the article interesting to read. [264
komsomol ha scritto:Really exceptionnal grouping. I bought specially the JOMSA containing this very article.

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: dom dic 30, 2018 3:01 am
da komsomol
Indeed this article is of the utmost interest, describing afghan orders and their relative documents.

The farsi langage is a daring barier. Western articles about this country are more than scarce!

I only noticed an inversion betwwen two photos comments in pages 12-13, about the star and bravery orders (my clue: the order names were translated in russian langage at the top of the order booklets right pages)

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: dom dic 30, 2018 12:25 pm
da ralph
Thanks for your comments and observation, appreciated. It took me about five months to complete the article. I have completed another follow up article to the 2014 "KGB in Afghanistan". This article is going to be around five pages and will be published in 2019.
komsomol ha scritto:Indeed this article is of the utmost interest, describing afghan orders and their relative documents.

The farsi langage is a daring barier. Western articles about this country are more than scarce!

I only noticed an inversion betwwen two photos comments in pages 12-13, about the star and bravery orders (my clue: the order names were translated in russian langage at the top of the order booklets right pages)

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: dom dic 30, 2018 1:03 pm
da komsomol
Interesting! Please do not think I criticize your article. We say in France "criticism is easy job, art is hard job".

Such presentation mistakes are often due to the journal redaction crew. Big big job to edit a publication...

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: dom dic 30, 2018 1:06 pm
da ralph
No worries at all. All is good. :-)
komsomol ha scritto:Interesting! Please do not think I criticize your article. We say in France "criticism is easy job, art is hard job".

Such presentation mistakes are often due to the journal redaction crew. Big big job to edit a publication...

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: mer gen 09, 2019 9:43 pm
da SergioV
Wow amazing group Ralph,
would have been nice to see a complete presentation with a close up of all the orders, medals and documents, one by one [110.gif
some of these pieces are very rare..

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: ven gen 11, 2019 7:06 pm
da ralph
Sergio - thank you for your comments and appreciated. I have sent you a PM.

I also want to add that I just completed another article related to a Afghan grouping and it should be published later this year. Once it is published I will create a thread on my other Afghan grouping in my collection. Stay tuned. [264
SergioV ha scritto:Wow amazing group Ralph,
would have been nice to see a complete presentation with a close up of all the orders, medals and documents, one by one [110.gif
some of these pieces are very rare..

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: ven gen 11, 2019 8:34 pm
da SergioV
Great! I am looking forward to seeing the new thread and the article [278

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: ven feb 01, 2019 8:00 pm
da ralph
Hello all - I am updating this thread to had a recently published (Feb 2019) review of the KGB in Afghanistan article written by Marc Voss, PhD. I hope you all find it useful.

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: ven feb 01, 2019 8:02 pm
da ralph
page two of review.

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: ven feb 01, 2019 11:34 pm
da komsomol
Thank you Ralph.

Is it possible to ask you if you have had an access, even uncomplete, to archives about Vartanian?

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: sab feb 02, 2019 2:05 pm
da ralph
Komsomol - Over the years there have been checks related to the archives, however it is still a gap at this time.
komsomol ha scritto:Thank you Ralph.

Is it possible to ask you if you have had an access, even uncomplete, to archives about Vartanian?

Re: Afghan grouping

Inviato: sab feb 02, 2019 7:06 pm
da komsomol
Such a recent personnal files is still secured in the RF FSB archives I presume?