06 / STAMP
A voice from overseas
This object belongs to “The parade that death watched” display.
A non-postal charity stamp issued by the Ukrainian diaspora in Detroit in 1987. Its figure of Death and the word CHORNOBYL made a political response to the disaster.
According to the museum record, this non-postal charity stamp was issued by the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Society in Detroit in 1987. A figure of Death, an atomic symbol and the word CHORNOBYL convey a political response by part of the Ukrainian diaspora to the disaster and Soviet silence.