12 december 2024

Postal war against postage stamp of the Netherlands commemorating the World Refugee Year 1960

In April 1960, 70 western-oriented countries issued stamps for the proclaimed UN World Refugee Year. Since most of the refugees at that time came from communist countries, four of them protested by declaring these stamps invalid. These countries were Poland, Czechoslavakia, Sowiet Union and Romania. …

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