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15th June 1941

Barbarossa Bolshoi
Barbarossa Bolshoi

Postcard (depicting the Bolshoi Theatre) sent from Moscow to Pirna, Germany. The postal date is just one week before the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia. With German censor hand stamp. Postage stamp Mi.797A (23rd anniversary of the Red Army, issued 22.02.1941). Ref: 15.06.1941

Barbarossa Bolshoi

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