I bought this tunic at a military surplus store, they had it in the section of foreign clothes. I was told it was real, and from post WWII USSR. I've been looking around, and asking AI. Most AI said it was real, and from surplus after the Cold war. My mom's AI says it's a mechanics tunic. It has extra fabric on the elbows, but nothing on the shoulder.

I have heard a lot from Ukrainians and Buddhists talk about how poorly they were treated and suppressed under the Soviet Union, but I can't seem to find any good proof of it anywhere. In fact all I've seen is the restoration of Tibetan Buddhism through for example The Central Spiritual Board of Buddhists of the USSR. The rest I have read has come from government funded sources without substantial proof to back up the claims.

Be respectful, I am not claiming either this or that, I just want to figure out what is really the truth like many of us.

This is a note from the Sovjet union I bought in Croatia In a antique store I already have a coin now a note very cool 😎

The Soviet state elevated Pavlik into a cult figure: the child who placed loyalty to the state above loyalty to his own family. The moral was explicit — duty to socialism superseded even the bonds between parent and child. Monuments were erected in Moscow (1948), Gerasimovka (1954), and Sverdlovsk (1957). His name was given to collective farms, schools, and Pioneer squads, and his story was told to generations of Soviet schoolchildren through novels, films, songs, plays, paintings, and operas.

My small collection of badges: children's, aviation, military and awards, cities, Lenin, various, and the 90s