The Order of the Legion is the highest French award and one of the most well-known awards in the world. It recognizes exceptional military and civil merits of the most deserving persons who paid important services to the Republic. It was established on May 19, 1802 by the First Consul of France Napoleon Bonaparte. The insignia is a white enamel five-beam star with forked rays (forming the cross) and silver or golden spheres on the tips.
The Legion of Honor, badge of the cavalier
France ,
23.06.1984
МЗСБ КП 21864
60 x120x 40 х 6 mm
metal, enamel, moire, stamping, weaving, assembly
The Legion of Honor, badge of the cavalier (l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, grade du chevalier). Award to the city of Volgograd. Presented by Francois Mitterrand, the President of France 23.06.1984
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A plaque with the appeal in verses by Piero Calamandrei “Monument to Shame.”
Italy ,
1975
A plaque with the appeal in verses by Piero Calamandrei “Monument to Shame.”
The author writes, “you will have, comrade Kesselring, the monument you demand from us Italians, but it is up to us to decide what stones it will be built of... and the name of those stones is now and forever Resistance”; the poem was written on December 4, 1952 after the statement was made by A. Kesselring that Italians must erect a monument dedicated to him
