Hi! Very impressive parade! I also read this relevant post: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f10/70-70-years-victory-1883706-4.html I did not know the background of this special black and orange ribbon symbol before. I find it is the ribbon of St. George. But Wikipedia claims this ribbon held no public significance in Soviet time and It was revived in Russia in 2005 only. We see this ribbon in many of the watches made during the Soviet era. The two points are contradictory. May you tell us more about the history and the watches? Thank you.
KL! I think the black and orange stripe is not the symbol of St. George per se. From my understanding, St. George's is blue on white.
But the black and orange stripe was used on some important medals for valor, including St. George's cross and the Soviet Slava (meaning Valor) medal, both in Russia and the Soviet Union, and became associated with V-Day so you could see them on many pictures, postcards, posters etc. and on some commemorative watches as far back as in Soviet times.
However its modern use as a stand-alone ribbon is very recent indeed. Could be very well be from 2005. Maybe there's a commercial aspect to this as well as many such ribbons are handed out free of charge to patrons of stores, supermarkets at checkouts on V-Day (but obviously supermarkets pay the manufacturers to buy them in bulk).
So the mass use of the black and orange ribbons is a recent tradition but the use of the colors in connection with the Victory of the Allies in ww2 is old. Cheers!
Hi! Very impressive parade! I also read this relevant post:
ReplyDeletehttp://forums.watchuseek.com/f10/70-70-years-victory-1883706-4.html
I did not know the background of this special black and orange ribbon symbol before. I find it is the ribbon of St. George. But Wikipedia claims this ribbon held no public significance in Soviet time and It was revived in Russia in 2005 only.
We see this ribbon in many of the watches made during the Soviet era. The two points are contradictory. May you tell us more about the history and the watches? Thank you.
KL!
DeleteI think the black and orange stripe is not the symbol of St. George per se. From my understanding, St. George's is blue on white.
But the black and orange stripe was used on some important medals for valor, including St. George's cross and the Soviet Slava (meaning Valor) medal, both in Russia and the Soviet Union, and became associated with V-Day so you could see them on many pictures, postcards, posters etc. and on some commemorative watches as far back as in Soviet times.
However its modern use as a stand-alone ribbon is very recent indeed. Could be very well be from 2005. Maybe there's a commercial aspect to this as well as many such ribbons are handed out free of charge to patrons of stores, supermarkets at checkouts on V-Day (but obviously supermarkets pay the manufacturers to buy them in bulk).
So the mass use of the black and orange ribbons is a recent tradition but the use of the colors in connection with the Victory of the Allies in ww2 is old.
Cheers!