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        Steel helmet (˜1940)           
          In this collection since: 19.05.2017 | 
       
      
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          Fire helmet from Tajikistan. The fire helmet is basically a steel helmets SSh-40 of the Russian army. 
From Wikipedia: 
The SSh-40 was the last and most widely used service helmet of the Soviet Union during World War II. The liner consisted of three (later four during the post-war time) cloth- or oilcloth pads that were tied with a cotton drawstring for size adjustment. The chin strap is made of leather. The chinstrap ends were connected with a buckle, and a semicircular piece of metal was clamped at the end of the long chinstrap. Unlike the SSh-36 and SSh-39, the SSh-40 was only made in sizes 1 - 3. The SSh-40 was supplemented by the SSh-60 and eventually replaced by the SSh-68. 
The helmet was provided with a comb for use in the fire department. The comb was welded on. At the front of the comb is a star. A symbol that was very common in the states of the Eastern Bloc and the states of the former Soviet Union. 
In 1991, Tajikistan declared itself independent from Soviet Union. 
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                  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadschikistan 
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