LATVIAN SOVJET-REPUBLIC 1940-1941


The Red Army invade Latvia on 17 june 1940. The Latvian Sovjet-Republic (Latvijas PSR) becomed a part of the Sovjet Union on 5 August 1940.
On 22 June 1941 the Germans invade the Sovjet-Union.

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Card from Gulbene to Riga (12-7-1940). The Sovjet Army is already in Latvia, but a Latvian stamp is used, the cancellation is also Latvian.

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Letter, december 1940, with Latvian stamp, but sovjet-cancellation of Riga.

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Letter from Baltinas (1941) with Russian stamp, but Latvian cancellation.
The destination of the letter is Riga, and on the backside we find a arrival-stamp of Riga, but this one is sovjet (CCCP):
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Letter from Kalnvirsa Latvian cancellation 1941, and Latvian arrival-stamp on the backside:
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Periodicals:
BLPSNY = Bulletin of the Philatelic Society of New York [in English] HBG = Het Baltische Gebied[in Dutch]
Lituania [in German]

De Latvijas PSR 10 santimu briefkaart van 1940 en meer filatelistische wetenwaardigheden over de Letse Sovjetrepubliek 1940-1941/ door Andrew Cronin met medewerking van diverse verzamelaars In: HBG 1999 ; 35. - p. 38-85
[About: Lartvian PSR]




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