250 years of historical victory in Poltava

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00:00World Stamps, 250 years of historical victory in Poltava, 250 years of the historic Poltava

00:19victory of 1709, postage stamp of the USSR, face value of 40 kopecks, released in 1959

00:29during the reign of N. Khrushchev. It is considered very rare and expensive and is included in

00:35the top 10 most rare Soviet stamps. The stamp was printed, but was not released. The reason

00:43for this was the political situation at the time and the resumption of diplomatic Soviet-Swedish

00:49relations. In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Sweden was planned to maintain good neighborly

00:57relations with the Scandinavian countries as a response to the visit of Swedish Prime

01:01Minister T. Erlander to the Soviet Union in 1956. It depicts captured Swedish troops led

01:10by Prime Minister Karl Piper and field marshals folding flags before Peter I. To comply with

01:16political correctness, it did not focus on the unpleasant nature of the Swedish side of

01:21the event as a defeat in the Battle of Poltava. The circulation was decided to be withheld.

01:26However, this did not prevent the stamp from appearing in private collections of philatelists

01:31after a while. The history of the stamp 250 years of the historic Poltava victory of 1709

01:38is not the only one of its kind. In the practice of the Soviet post, there are other cases when

01:44unreleased stamps have appeared in the collections acquiring the status of rare stamps. The fate of

01:50the stamp 250 years of the historic Poltava victory of 1709 was also untenable. According

01:58to the official version, it was sold for only a few minutes, after which it was withdrawn.

02:03Destruction had escaped just one sheet of 40 marks, which explains the magical appearance of

02:10its living individual specimens. The cost of the brand is $10,000 to $20,000. At the English

02:16Cherrystone Auctions in New York on June 28, 2012, the stamp was sold for $15,000. At the same time,

02:24another stamp was being prepared, dedicated to Khrushchev's visit to Sweden, which, by the way,

02:30did not have time to go into circulation, since the meeting in Stockholm was cancelled. Instead of

02:36the planned countries, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the Soviet leader, having received an invitation

02:42from D. Eisenhower, went to the U.S.A.

02:56World Stamps.