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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Michael McCartin">Michael McCartin</span> <span><<a href="mailto:michael_mccartin@verizon.net">michael_mccartin@verizon.net</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Symbols" 2013.04.28 (01) [EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It sounds like the old Romanov house colours that appeared on the Tsarist era cap cockades worn by the army and in some decorations such as the Order of St George (</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._George" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Order_of_St._George</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">). The colours survived into the Soviet era and beyond.</font></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span> </div><span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Michael McCartin"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Kevin Caldwell">Kevin Caldwell</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>><br>
</font></span></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Symbols" 2013.04.28 (01) [EN]<br></font></font></div></span></div><span><div><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It’s the St. George ribbon. Its widespread use in Victory Day celebrations in Russia seems to be a recent development.</font></span></div>
<p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_of_Saint_George" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ribbon_of_Saint_George</font></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kevin Caldwell<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
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