SOVIET CELEBRATES
NEW STAMPS ISSUED
LEADERS HONOURED
MOSCOW, 20th September. Hie Soviet is issuing dozens of new i stamps, to inaugurate the second Eive Years' Plan and to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary- of the revolution. The stamps are in the form of a picture history of national events since 1917. They show Lenin arriving at Petrograd from exile, the storming of the Winter Palace, the building of the Dnieper dam, the Magnetogorsk elecftrie combine, and a map of the Soviet coJonies. Six stamps commemorate the anniversary of Karl MaTx's death, and six the shooting of the twenty-six Baku Commissars. One aeries honours the international Spartakiad. Stamps issued during 1934 will celebrate the opening of the first underground railway in Russia. Further sets will depict the first political demonstration in Russia, and the first milway, and show portraits of revolutionary heroes. Leading philatelists throughout the world have been invited to attend a stamp exhibition during the October celebrations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 85, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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157SOVIET CELEBRATES Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 85, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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