I'm suspicious of the authenticity of the Order of the Red Star on the right. Not as detailed and it just has a different 'feel' to it
Rupesin miettimään nyt veteraanipäivän jälkeen että nykyiset ikäluokat eivät ole luultavasti tavanneet tai tule tapaamaan sotiemme veteraania koska heitä on enää kourallinen jäljellä.
Mun ala-asteella 2010-luvun alussa oli pari kuukautta historian sijaisopettaja joka toi isänsä puhumaan meille. En muista mitä hän kuvaili tai kertoi sotapolustaan, mutta herra lopetti siihen että sodan lopusta lähtien hän oli ollut antimilitaristi. Sotamuseoita rakastava ja sotaleikkejä yhä leikkivä minä oli vähän hämmästynyt.
I emailed and asked a man who has/had a dedicated site to Soviet headwear about its authenticity a few years back, and he replied with this:
"This is a militia general's parade cap - as you thought. However, as you also saw, it was not made at the normal Moscow factory where general caps were usually made. I have never seen such a marking on a general's cap but it is "possible" that this Leningrad factory made this one specially for a police general. However, it is also possible that this is a post-1991 reproduction. However, since I have never seen reproductions marked like this either - I think it is more likely that this was an authentic cap just custom-made at this Leningrad factory. It does have the very high quality embroidery and the "generals-grade" chin cords made with 5% gold - so that also makes it more likely to be authentic."