Postage stamps rarely feature rude gestures, yet the most well-known stamp from Ukraine does. In reference to a standoff at Snake Island on the first day of the full-scale invasion almost three years ago, it depicts a soldier giving a Russian cruiser the finger.
Using unprintable words, the Ukrainians rejected the Russian demand for capitulation.
The stamp sold out within a week of its release, and the battleship in question, the cruiser Moskva, was sunk by the Ukrainians two days after it was released.
The stamp is so important that whatever was left over was distributed to official delegations who represented Ukraine internationally.
The chief of Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s postal service, Ihor Smilyansky, admits it was a controversial move.
