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Post by crazydima on Dec 28, 2006 20:00:51 GMT -5
Tovarischi,
Ok , I have repeatedly read and have heard fellow re-enactors discuss that the old Russian vets of 1917 were allowed to wear beards during the GPW.
Does anyone have the origin of this particular piece of information? Where did it come from? Is this an urban legend?
Help Mr. Wizard!
Sincerely,
Dima
(Inquiring minds want to know)
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Post by ivanthecutthroat on Feb 3, 2009 21:42:15 GMT -5
I have no idea where that idea comes from. I have however read in "A Writer at War" the author says that he saw an officer ask a soldier why was he not shaven. The soldier replied that he had no razor. The officer stated that if he did not find a razor that he would be unshaven on the front line.
I have seen photos of older men in uniform with beards. It is hard to say if these are regular soldiers or partisans. I have never read an official regulation that says, if you are a 1917 vet you can wear a beard. It seems silly to me that the government would make a rule that old men can have beards and young men can't. Maybe it was an excepted practice by the officers to let their old soldiers wear beards. kind of an unwritten rule.
Anyway that's my rambling statement. take it or leave it.
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Post by crazydima on Feb 13, 2009 17:08:19 GMT -5
Ivan,
After many posts on all sorts of forums and digging through all that I can find regarding Soviet Regs I have come one conclusion.
It is a re-enactorism.
Every time somebody would refer me to one re-enacting fellow who then led me to another re-enacting fellow who then led me back to the same fellow from earlier. So I played this game for nearly six months only to end back up where I started at as far as sources on the matter.
Thus there is no documentation to support the whole 1917 vets and beards garbage that has become a part of RKKA re-enacting.
Well one down. Several more to go.
Sincerely
Dima
(I love history)
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