Saturday, August 3, 2013

Words For Peace



This maximum card is from the Soviet Union and has a first day cancellation dated 08-05-1984. The theme is peace. Below is an enlargement of the stamps and cancellation.


I was able to translate the words in the Google translator, though some of them are a bit ambiguous. Here is what I came up with.

top left:
ПОЛИТИКА СССР - ПОЛИТИКА МИРА
Policy of Soviet Union  - Policy of peace

left globe:
ЗА ПОЛНОЕ ЗАПРЕЩЕНИЕ ОРУЖИЯ МАССОВОГО УНИЧТОЖЕНИЯ
A total ban on weapons of mass destruction

center: 
СОВЕТСКИЙ  СОЮЗ, СЛЕДУЯ ЛЕНИНСКОЙ ПОЛИТИКЕ МИРА И МЕЖДУНА РОДНОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА; СДЕЛАЕТ ВСЕ ОТ НЕГО ЗА ВИСЯЩЕЕ ДЛЯ ПРЕДОТВРАЩЕНИЯ ВОЙНЫ
Soviet Union, Following Lenin's policy of peace and international cooperation, did all it could for hanging on to prevent war

top right:
ЗАЩИТА МИРА - ДЕЛО ВСЕХ И КАЖДОГО
Protecting peace - Everyone and all

right globe:
МИРНЫМ ИНИЦИАТИВАМ СССР - ШИРОКУЮ ПОДДЕРЖКУ!
Peace initiatives of the Soviet Union - wide support!

On the cancellation:
МОСКВА ПОЧТАМТ
Moscow GPO

ПЕРВЫЙ ДЕНЬ
First Day

The banners between the globes and people have the words for peace in various languages:

МИР  - Russian
Peace - English
Paix  - French
Frieden  - German
Mir (МИР) - Russian et al.
Paz - Spanish
Pokój  - Polish
Béke -  Hungarian
Rauha -  Finnish
Fred - Swedish
Vrede - Dutch
 
For even more words for peace, see Say PEACE in all Languages.

 


This is a post for Sunday Stamps at Viridian's Postcard Blog


10 comments:

  1. Nice maxi card. You've done a great job of translating it all. The Russians seem fond of putting a wordy message stamp in a set.

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  2. Great card and a stamps. Takes me back to the "bad" old days. Thank you for joining in!

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  3. This is a gem! Thanks also for providing the translation for Cyrillic characters.

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  4. Great maxicard. Very wordy stamps :)

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  5. It is also Мир in Macedonian :) I just think, I am not really sure, that regarding "ЗАЩИТА МИРА - ДЕЛО ВСЕХ И КАЖДОГО", it would be more "Protecting peace - the duty/deed/business of all and everyone"

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  6. I'm taking a beginners course in Russian this coming autumn but I think this sort of translation will be a long time beyond me. Great stamps.

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    1. I use a website that lets you type with different language keyboards, so you really only have to be somewhat familiar with the alphabet. After you do the typing, you can copy the words and paste them in the Google translator.

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  7. Good work on the translation. Great card/stamps.

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  8. Good for you in managing some translation!

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