Be a hero! Stamp

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00:00world stamps be a hero stamp be a hero the philatelic name of the postage stamp of the

00:16USSR issued on August 12 1941 it is the first Soviet postage stamp dedicated to the great

00:23patriotic war of 1941 to 1945 the stamp depicts the scene of the mother's farewell to her son

00:30a red army soldier going to the front at the bottom of the text is be a hero the nominal value

00:37is 30 kopecks printed by the method of deep doctor blade printing in all existing catalogs another way

00:44of printing offset is mistakenly indicated the stamp be a hero was created based on the first

00:50military photographic poster by artist VB Koretsky according to the information of the catalog

00:55standard collection Soloviev V Koretsky is indicated as the author unlike the poster the artist changed

01:02one detail turning the head of the red army man initially the full transfer of the poster to the

01:07stamp was planned however a strongly darkened drawing required the use of a printing method

01:12that extended the production of the stamp then the drawing was decomposed into strokes this project

01:17was adopted and approved for production in August 1941 part of the circulation was taken from the

01:24warehouse and entered into the post offices while the other part remained in the warehouse during one

01:29of the bombings of Moscow an air bomb fell into the warehouse the part of the circulation that was in

01:34there was lost therefore the first military stamp is now quite rare in 1995 the magazine philateli published

01:43an interview with the artist of the original poster and the artist of the stamp be a hero

01:47VB Koretsky in this publication Koretsky who at the time of the interview was 86 years old said that

01:54the idea to use a poster for the postage stamp was filed by the then first secretary of the Central

01:59Committee of the Komsomol N.A. Mikhailov to which Koretsky brought a ready-made poster design he also agreed

02:05to release the stamp in May 1975 Moscow hosted the international philatelic exhibition dedicated to the 30th

02:12anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War in honor of this event a

02:16souvenir sheet with the image of the stamp be a hero was issued by order of the Ministry of Culture of

02:22the USSR number 120 on March 23rd 1987 the stamp was added to the list of rare poster stamps and

02:29blocks that are not subject to transfer from the USSR in the interview the artist tells that he was

02:34instructed to make a separate drawing for the stamp changing its composition a little and then already

02:39with direct preparation for painting the typography altered the font of the inscription and the elements

02:44necessary for the postage stamp

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