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THE EAR, By Jim Davis, Special political correspondent
Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 30, 2003
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After an international furor of considerable proportions, Ukraine's postage
stamp publishing house, Marka Ukrainy, has come up with a new version of the
stamp that was to commemorate the 1932-33 famine. The earlier version was
found to depict victims from an earlier famine in Russia, not Ukraine.
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Holodomor. Ukraine. 1932-1933. 45 kopiykas
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We have seen a copy of the newly chosen version of the stamp, and feel
constrained to comment that it is a much less attractive stamp than the
first one. However, the first was unusable because of its cultural and
political connection with Russia. The version of the new stamp that we have
is not of publishable quality, but we hope to be able to print it in color
in a future edition of the paper.
One thing that is certain is that the artwork on the new stamp is designed
to sidestep altogether the issue of national identity, since the rather
stark design is untraceable to any nation. Strangely enough, however, the
art will remind many of the haunted face of the woman in the famous drawing
"The Scream," by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. At least this time no
one will be screaming that the stamp might get identified with Russia rather
than Ukraine.
The Kyiv Post, Thursday, October 30, 2003
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/theear/19326/
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