Socialist orders of merit
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After the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, the first Socialist Orders of Merit were founded. After World War II, communists came to power in many other countries and this type of order spread all over the world. In many new African nations this type of decoration was instituted, probably because they were so different from the Orders of Knighthood of the former colonial masters.[1]
Having abolished the orders of the Czar, the first order of the
Yugoslavia always chose to follow its own policy in creating decorations. Poland and Czechoslovakia stuck to elements of the traditional orders like grand-crosses, commanders and knights but countries like Angola, Afghanistan and North Korea copied all the models and names of Soviet decorations.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the
See also
- Orders of the Soviet Union
- Orders of Soviet Republics
- Orders of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
- Orders of China
- Orders of Cuba
- Orders of East Germany
- Orders of North Korea
- Orders of Vietnam
- Orders of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Order of merit
References
- ISBN 0600367312
Literature
- Václav Měřička, The book of orders and decorations, London: Hamlyn 1975. ISBN 0600367312
- Paul Hieronymussen, Europaeiske ordner i farver, Kopenhagen 1967
- Paul Hieronymussen, Orders, medals and decorations of Britain and Europe in colour London: Blandford Press, 1967.