UPA Military Pass Glory to Ukraine УПА WW2 WWII Anti Stalin Propaganda World War

Description

UPA Military Pass converted of a medal with defacing Joseph Stalin portrait. UPA Soldiers used the Military Pass to be able to tell if friend or foe. Article 58 of the Criminal Code provides for a punishment of a imprisonment of 10 years or death penalty for the deface of the Joseph Stalin portrait! A nice example of Anti-Stalin Propaganda. The UPA Soldiers don't surrender!
Specifications:
- Material: Brass. Converted from "Stalin" medal
- Obverse: defacing Joseph Stalin portrait and ЧОРТ (in English: DEVIL)
- Reverse: Слава Україні (in English: Glory to Ukraine)
Additional information:
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (in Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія or УПА; in transliteration: Ukrainska povstanska armiia or UPA). A Ukrainian military formation which fought from 1942 to 1949, mostly in Western Ukraine, against the German and Soviet occupational regimes. Its immediate purpose was to protect the Ukrainian population from German and Soviet repression and exploitation; its ultimate goal was an independent and unified Ukrainian state.
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