In the upper part of the shield, there is a circle with the inscription in the Ge'ez and Latin languages: "To the unconquered city of Stalingrad". In the main part of the shield, there are eight radial plates with the carved floral ornaments. Below three of them, superposed images are attached: a sickle and a hammer in a laurel wreath (element of the coat of arms of the USSR); monograms of Haile Selassie I; a lion carrying a cross (element of the coat of arms of imperial Ethiopia).
Symbolic shield from Haile Selassie I, the Emperor of Ethiopia
Ethiopia ,
1944
МЗСБ КП 2564
22,5 х Ø 39 cm
wood, leather, fabric, silver, gilding, notching, handmade
A gift from Haile Selassie I, the Emperor of Ethiopia, to commemorate the heroic defense of Stalingrad.
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Telegram from Dolores Ibárruri, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, to A.S. Chuyanov, the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (B.)
Spain ,
1946
Telegram from Dolores Ibárruri, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, to A.S. Chuyanov, the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (B.)
Transliteration was used to write the telegram text and to convert Russian script (Cyrillic) to Latin. The tapes are pasted on a Telegraph blank. Dolores Ibárruri wished a Happy New Year to Aleksey Chuyanov, 1946. France, Department of Haute-Garonne, Toulouse
Framed photo under glass. Memorial ceremony at the monument to civilian victims of Nazism in Cours-Saint-Etienne
Belgium ,
29.09.1973
Framed photo under glass. Memorial ceremony at the monument to civilian victims of Nazism in Cours-Saint-Etienne
A gift from the veterans of Belgium partisans to the veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad, Walloon Brabant province
