Morning PDT all,
 
Thank you Greg for sharing your knowledge with us.
 
Could the child be wearing the medals one or more of her family earned for service?
 
Tom R

From: "Greg Chalik" <mrg3105@gmail.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 2:22:33 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] semi-OT: uniform

Many thousands of children, some as young as 13, served in the Red Army during the Second World War, many in combat units. They were collectivelly known as "regiment's son", though girls were found in some non-combat units. Many more children however served with the partisans, and joined the Red Army as it advanced and incorporated the partisan units into the regular army.
I think in this case though the girl is just dressed up for Victory Day, which has become increasingly more popular over the last decade or so, in fact more so than during Soviet times when this was done for propoganda reasons.

The medals are a bit odd on a child.

Greg

On 2 June 2016 at 18:42, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
I couldn't help noting the hashtags: "cute little kid", "adorable," "cut kids,"

Doesn't it strike anyone else as a bit . . . odd . . . that this "cute" kid is wearing what appears to a genuine period adult military uniform (complete with real medals), just tailored in a kid's size?

I've seen kids of her apparent age in Civil War reenactment gear, but then there actually *were* kids of around that age in that war's fighting units. Did things really get desperate for the Soviets?



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I saw this in a friend's tumblr.

https://t.co/wYvB63ItXl

Can anybody ID the uniform for sure? Or the medals?


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