Five-pointed silver-plated bronze star; the face with the full-length dynamic figure of a Czechoslovak partisan moving to the right and holding a Soviet-made Shpagin PPSh-41 machine pistol (Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina) across his body, inscribed ‘ČS / PARTYZAN’ (Czechoslovak Partisan) upper left, a wreath of oak and laurel around the rest of the circumference of the star; the reverse plain with screwpost and backplate; diameter 49.47mm (1.95 inches). The Badge was instituted on 9 August 1946 to be awarded to Czechoslovak armed partisans who had fought against the occupying German forces during World War II and were officially enrolled in a Resistance organisation. Its attribution was strictly controlled. The insignia were made that same year by the Kremnica Mint (Mincovňa Kremnica). The Mint was established as long ago as 1328; today it is in Slovakia and manufactures coins and medals for the Slovak Republic. The Badge, of dynamic design, is rarely found.
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