Saturday, August 8, 2009

USSR

1940. Mi Nr. 737-38. Two stamps from a war set celebrating the reattachment of Western Ukraine(part of Romanian province Bukovina) and Western Belarus to the Soviet Union.
According to Vasyl Hryshko "During the Bolshevik rule in Western Ukraine (from September 17, 1939 to June 22, 1941) about 750,000 men and women were killed or deported to Siberia."


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