Saturday, August 8, 2009

USSR

1933 one stamp from a "Nationalities" set. The stamp is depicting Bashkirs.

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. Some Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Samara, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia.

Some Bashkirs traditionally practiced agriculture, cattle-rearing and bee-keeping. The nomadic Bashkirs wandered either the mountains or the steppes, herding cattle.

Bashkir national dishes include a kind of gruel called öyrä and a cheese named qorot.



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."


Italy

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini- 2 stamps from a set of 6. Mi Nr. 626 and 628/1941