Mason and Peasant Woman, Soviet Occupation Zone

Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany · 1948 · 50 Pfennig

The stamp depicts a mason with a trowel and a peasant woman holding a sickle and wheat, symbolizing post-war reconstruction and the worker-peasant alliance. It is overprinted with 'SOWJETISCHE BESATZUNGSZONE 1948'.

Issued in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany after World War II, this stamp reflects the zone's efforts to rebuild and promote a socialist worker-peasant ideology during the immediate post-war period.