)I've been vegetating to Amazon Prime streams of Russian made WW2 movies- along box sets of Russian WW2 TV series. Luckily, Vlad doesn't ride bare-chested through any of them, on horse nor even in the turret T-34. 
In the main though, I've found them highly entertaining- and quite addictive, as many of them sport T34s and IS2-s, as well as early Soviet-era military equipment, and beautiful landscapes ( here and there) One thing I noted, though (apart from the prevalence of the ' Nasty German Spy' theme) is that all combat troops are required to wear their medals, and decorations, in combat situations. I wonder whether this really was the case?
We're all familiar, I guess with the haughty and strutting Prussian militarists proudly wearing the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) in combat, but were German troops actually required to sport medals in combat?
I would have though that wearing medals would make one sniper-bait, just as wearing badges of rank on sleeves made British officers sniper bait in WW1 (that's the reason they switched to shoulder-board rank badges
later).
from the point of view of having Tank Riders and Tank Commanders with our models, I guess it's important to get the details right.
Would going into combat with this lot be a help or a hindrance? Maybe it would make for a partial defence against intrusive unwanted bullets?
- Russian bullet magnet, or bulletproof vest?
