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Is it correct that these "with bayonet" were only worn by Cossack cavalry units? I seem to remember eons ago hearing that the lugs for the Moisin-Nagant rifle bayonets were almost all ground off as the swords were used, and re-used, and passed on and on in active use.
I've never encountered one of this type still intact, let alone with the bayonet!
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Using swords in combat...
Junior Sergeant Mikhail Petrovich Smadik was a ‘classic’ Soviet soldier. He was nineteen years old, and had been in the Soviet army for just one year. Being a Cossack, a traditional horseman-warrior, he was a natural choice for selection into the 22<SUP>nd</SUP> Guards Cavalry Regiment, 5<SUP>th</SUP> Guards Cavalry Division. The end of the War was near, and to date, he had killed over fifty-six German soldiers and officers single-handedly.
On May 1<SUP>st</SUP> 1945, he earned this Order of Glory Third Class for the following:
"…while attacking the front line of the enemy’s defense, in the ranks of a mounted platoon, Comrade Smadik demonstrated courage and bravery. During an attack in the area of the village Tsulen, he chased after the retreating enemy and with his sword killed four soldiers, and took two German officers prisoner…"
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