The size is continental standard 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover. Published by the Soviet Artist Publishing House, circulation 50,000, rather small by Soviet standards. The artwork is an offset print of the 1953 painting by N. Tolkunov on exhibit in the Museum of Border Guard Troops of the USSR, entitled "F. Dzerzhinsky Receives the Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars about formation of VCheka." The verso has an annotation in Russian explaining the imagery and providing the date of the decree, 20 December 1917. Just over a month after the Bolshevik Revolution, it shows how q

The size is continental standard 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover. Published by the Soviet Artist Publishing House, circulation 50,000, rather small by Soviet standards. The artwork is an offset print of the 1953 painting by N. Tolkunov on exhibit in the Museum of Border Guard Troops of the USSR, entitled "F. Dzerzhinsky Receives the Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars about formation of VCheka." The verso has an annotation in Russian explaining the imagery and providing the date of the decree, 20 December 1917. Just over a month after the Bolshevik Revolution, it shows how quickly Lenin and his henchmen realized that an organ of Red Terror had to be formed if they were to stay in power.

In excellent, near mint condition.
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