| Tango01 | 26 Jun 2019 12:39 p.m. PST |
The rise and fall of the Red Army's "budyonovka" cap.
See here
link
Amicalement
Armand |
| 14Bore | 26 Jun 2019 12:43 p.m. PST |
Hat fashions come and go, and probably better that one went. |
| goragrad | 26 Jun 2019 12:59 p.m. PST |
Actually a club member wears his when he runs Russian Civil War games at the club. |
| Cerdic | 26 Jun 2019 2:14 p.m. PST |
Maybe they got rid of it when they realised it looked ridiculous… |
| Lion in the Stars | 26 Jun 2019 3:45 p.m. PST |
Yeah, that's pretty absurd-looking… |
| BW1959 | 26 Jun 2019 3:50 p.m. PST |
No worse looking than someone whose pants hang down like most teens around here |
| Stryderg | 26 Jun 2019 7:26 p.m. PST |
Very practical head gear there. Lean forward, run towards the enemy. When contact is made, the pointy bit really makes a difference. |
| Glengarry5 | 27 Jun 2019 1:23 a.m. PST |
Good for keeping your picklehaube warm! |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 27 Jun 2019 12:12 p.m. PST |
Owning a few (PERFECT repro's made in Russia for Heaven knows what reason), they are my all time Silliest Military Headgear, and that in a crowded field of candidates. It's not just that the red star (pin and patch both by regulations) provides the perfect aiming point for any enemy, it's the converging red welts that meet in the point so that as the wearer raises his head above a wall, log, etc, he telegraphs his presence, his movement, and the promise that in the next (last) heartbeat, the bullseye on his forehead is available for immediate plinking. Then again, no headgear ever so perfectly "fit" its namesake. Budyenny was one of only two Marshals of the Soviet Union never to be murdered by Stalin (Voroshilov being the other), and evidently for the reason that neither man had either the brains or the cojones ever to seem threatening to even the biggest paranoid in Russian history since Ivan Grozny. Though after losing Ukraine--and about 600,000 incidental soldiers--why Budyenny wasn't shot is still a mystery…. TVAG |
| Tango01 | 27 Jun 2019 12:17 p.m. PST |
|
| Zinkala | 27 Jun 2019 1:28 p.m. PST |
I bought one and gave it to my brother in law as a souvenier years ago. The thing is ridiculous but still better than the pillbox hat some canadians wore in uniform it the 19th century. I've often wondered how Budyenny got to and maintained his position in the soviet hierarchy too. |
 Mserafin  | 27 Jun 2019 1:54 p.m. PST |
Budyenny was Stalin's old buddy from the Civil War, that's how. And, as pointed out above, he wasn't bright enough to pose a threat. Remember, during the purges, they "only shot the smart ones." |
