USSR WW2 NKVD HONOURED OFFICER BADGE AND CERTIFICATE SET, EARLY EDITION

Committee of State Security set for State Security honoured officer. 

Early edition, model 1940. 

Best quality. Fully stamped over-breast badge, brass, gold and silver plated elements, enamel. 

Totally authentic copy. 

Picture of original Certificate is to compare.

"Honored employee of the KGB" - the highest award in the departmental organs of state security of the USSR. These were awarded to top officers and service personnel for outstanding accomplishments or completion of extremely important/dangerous assignments.  The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union that directly executed the will of the All-Union Communist Party.  NKVD Emblem, the oval with the sword and the hammer and sickle and the ribbon/banner, was used from the beginning of the Cheka and the GPU.