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What's this odd item, which I would
have passed over except it does say "poshta" at the top, so it "must" be
a postal issue of some sort?
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This reads "Underground Postage of Ukraine" which is a
cinderella issue used to popularize UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) that
operated in Ukraine 1941-1950's. Several units of this military group
broke through to the U.S. Zone of occupation in Germany. Many such
cinderella stamps were issued in Germany after the war and then later in
the United States. The inscription on the picture on reads "USSR - Prison
of Nations". [Val Zabijaka]
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"Pidpilna poshta" means "Underground post". [Jay Carrigan]
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