Among my souvenirs my children would likely toss, this pin reads “SOS” in Roman letters and the standard “CCCP” “Operativno-Spacatelnya Sluzhba”. It was given to me by a private EMS group in Kharkiv, Ukraine in Jan 1992, just as the…
Author: vassar
80 Communist Party Event cards, USSR Bloc, Founding Central Committee Members, 1950s-60s
Only in Cyrillic. Lots of history here from the early days of Stalin’s power in East Europe, following WWII, These are mostly “pokana” and “proputsk”, both types of passes. One for Party events, the other for national events. The Family…
How Veterans can Redirect much of America’s Public Education
…and a new Education Model in America can provide both employment and justification for veterans service. For a few years I managed a veterans website called “VeteransTales”. It was constructed by my author-friend and colleague, @DavidMPoff. We stopped publishing after…