page_title: Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
section_title: Medal description
hierarchical_section_title: Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" / Medal description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Avers der Jubiläumsmedaille „20 Jahre Streitkräfte der UdSSR“. English: Obverse of the Jubilee Medal "20 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". Français&#160;: Médaille du Jubilé "20 Ans des Forces Armées de l'URSS" (avers) Русский: Юбилейная медаль «20 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР», аверс медали.
context_page_description: The Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on January 24, 1938 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to denote the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Armed Forces.
context_section_description: The Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" is a 32 mm in diameter oxidised silver matte finished circular medal with a polished 2.5 mm rim.  On the obverse, a large red enamelled five pointed star with a silvered edge, the tip of each point reaching the medal's edge; at the bottom sitting on the rim, in deep relief, the prominent 8 mm high gilded Roman numeral "XX" going up between the star's lower rays to superimpose it over 4 mm.
  On the reverse, a 25 mm high relief image of a Red Army soldier clad in the winter uniform of the Red Guard and firing a rifle, at the lower right side of the soldier, the dates "1918-1938".
  From its establishment in 1938 to 1943, the medal was secured by a ring through the medal suspension loop to a small rectangular mount covered by a red silk moiré ribbon.  In 1943, this changed to the now standard Soviet pentagonal mount, now covered by a 24 mm wide silk moiré grey ribbon with a 2 mm red edge stripe on each side.
caption: Original variant 1938 to 1943 of the Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
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