Latest uniform for my collection, a Captain in the East German border guard'shelicopter squadron (put-together).

Do you have any uniforms like such as collected or from your family?
Awards, medals?

>>212300486 (OP)
This nigga be stealing german uniforms for secret missions.

>>212300486 (OP)
Why collect something like this? You can never wear it or even really display it.

Where do you buy this stuff?
I want to collect Soviet Memorabilia and reproductions because I'm a communist

>>212300833
NTA but some antique stores have this kind of thing. There's a town nearby me that has a store filled with this kind of thing, they even have a big box full of old watches that are just throw in there with no care, same as all the clothes. A lot of these places just flat out don't know what they have.

>>212300829
Because I can.
>even really display it.
Do you flatshare or live with your parents or something? It's easy enough to put up some shelves.
>>212300833
Ebay.de is the most accessible.
GermanDotMilitaria another for mostly East German and the occasional Warsaw Pact stuff.
Other than that, learn the local language and find other local sites, or pay a premium to buy stuff on English auction/collector sites here.
>because I'm a communist
Yike.

>>212300879
Why did that go to Australia of all places?

>>212301109
We have a lot of Euro immigrants and families here, our overall population had a massive boom during and after WW2 (my own family included in that too).

>>212301143
I didn't expect that. Fleeing to a cvnt that is at the other side of the planet is pretty retarded tbqhwy.

>>212301163
People just wanted to be far away from Europe when shit was going off and had just finished. I suppose at the time nobody really knew just how far the war would spread either.

>>212301219
>I suppose at the time nobody really knew just how far the war would spread either.
That's a valid point but still, they didn't have intercontinental missiles like now. The worst shit that could happen is getting some beaches taken and then be retaken quickly.
Escaping to South America or South Africa sounds more of an optimal choice considering only the location in the map.

>>212301296
Map location wasn't everything, there was also the obstacle of the language and culture barrier. Australia was extremely British for the time and we were of course allies, so people felt safest here and like they could assimilate to it the easiest. We did also have a lot of Euro immigration prior during the gold rush of the 1800s and had entire towns founded by Germans and other Euros, so people could easily find their own local communities to be comfortable with (which is also what my family did at the time too).

I imagine America had a similar thing happen but I don't really know, all I know about is what happened here since I had family that experienced what I've mentioned.

>>212300486 (OP)
I'll swap this uniform for yours

>>212301557
Which? Also a bizarre side-by-side, what's the point there.

>>212301689
The east german one
> what's the point there
I don't want to look like nazi ripoff

>>212301816
>nazi ripoff
Wait until you see the 1956-74 East German uniforms.
I don't think the Russian one is a ripoff though, it looks like just a standard development from even the Soviet wartime uniforms like the M43.

>>212302040
at least it's grey/green
not blue (blue means gay in russian)