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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 671428, member: 6986&quot;]It is not a &quot;soviet&quot; issue.&nbsp; The note was issued during the Russian Civil War when the Red (Soviet) Armies of the Bolsheviks were fighting the White Armies made up of an uneasy alliance of Russian monarchists, Kerenskyites, Kossocks and others; and also the Allied North Russian Expeditionary Force (ANREF) consisting of US, British, Czech and Japanese forces.&nbsp; (There is an excellent book called Quartered in Hell about the ANREF, if you can find it.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The use of the Russian eagle indicates the issuer was not a Bolshevik.&nbsp; Note also the absence of the imperial crown from the Russian eagle indicating a post-Czarist issue.&nbsp; The date gives that away also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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