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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 853287, member: 39"]Welcome to Coin Talk, Eikmans! As for your medal, well, I do not speak Belarusian either, but hey, we have the Internet. First, I don't think the piece is from WW2. The memorial was built in the late 1960s, and apparently that includes the monument depicted on your piece. See <a href="http://khatyn.by/en/about/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://khatyn.by/en/about/" rel="nofollow">http://khatyn.by/en/about/</a> Now if you enter (some of) the text on your piece into a search engine, you'll find this for example: <a href="http://www.nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=29436&p=1&c2=calcym&combo_calmonth=9&combo_calyear=2009" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=29436&p=1&c2=calcym&combo_calmonth=9&combo_calyear=2009" rel="nofollow">http://www.nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=29436&p=1&c2=calcym&combo_calmonth=9&combo_calyear=2009</a> and the quote "Свет праз вякі не бачыў жудасцяў гэткіх на зямлі нашай" which is apparently from that memorial site. Machine translation turns that into "The world through the centuries has not seen such horror in our land." Blame Google if the translation is bad. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Christian[/QUOTE]