Help with shoulder boards?

Does anyone know these?

could be Soviet!?

"Major General"

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fplanetwaves133%2F_%2Frsrc%2F1364467564152%2Fsoviet-military%2Fsoviet-military-uniforms%2Fsoviet-shoulder-rank-boards%2FrankBoardGuide1.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fplanetwaves133%2Fsoviet-military%2Fsoviet-military-uniforms%2Fsoviet-shoulder-rank-boards%3Ftmpl%3D%252Fsystem%252Fapp%252Ftemplates%252Fprint%252F%26showPrintDialog%3D1&docid=RiMFzJxWnFRC7M&tbnid=QKTPg_2KpPXXWM%3A&vet=1&w=541&h=848&itg=1&bih=937&biw=1920&ved=2ahUKEwjnxcOKlc_oAhWmM-wKHTUuAGAQxiAoCnoECAEQNQ&iact=c&ictx=1


here are repros sold:

https://www.sovietmilitarystuff.com/de/rote-armee-russische-general-shirt-schulterklappen.html?search=schulterklappen

For sure it is Soviet related, but it gets complicated from there because Russia and many of the former Soviet Republics continued using the same badging. I'm not just talking about the same designs, but the same exact physical items probably produced in the same factories. Since the 1990s many former Soviet Republics have changed things a little or a lot, but it seems most have not.

Belarus:

http://www.uniforminsignia.org/?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&result=128

Armenia:

http://www.uniforminsignia.org/?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&result=1381

Turkmenistan:

http://www.uniforminsignia.org/?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&result=332

Uzbekistan (slightly different):

http://www.uniforminsignia.org/?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&result=754

So on and so forth.

Steve

Yeah I ran into the same confusion...