CARPATHO-UKRAINIAN POSTAL STATIONERY, 1939 and 1945
| NRZU-Overprinted Stationery | Uzhhorod Stationery |
| Overprinted Hungarian Postal Stationery | Mukachiv Stationery |
| A Note on Valuations | Berehove Stationery |
| Criteria for Listing | Field Post Stationery |
NRZU-Overprinted Stationery
In the wake of the Red Army’s occupation of Carpatho-Ukraine in October of 1944, a communist-dominated People’s Council of Carpatho-Ukraine (NRZU) began to take over the running of the region, including postal affairs. In addition to the supplying of postage stamps, the NRZU also machine overprinted remaining supplies of Hungarian postal cards in three locations: Uzhhorod, Mukachiv, and Berehove.
The overprinting apparently took place at all three locales about the same time as the Uzhhorod stamp overprints (see Chapter 7); a date of 10 February is commonly cited. In some instances, postal cards previously hand-overprinted ČSP / ·1944· in Khust - by a short-lived Czechoslovak administration - were included in the stocks for machine overprinting. Although some 16,000 of these 18f Khust cards (and an unknown number of 12f cards) had been prepared in about mid-November 1944, few, if any, apparently had ever been put into circulation by the time the Czechs pulled out in mid-January 1945.1
1. - A total of 244 letter-cards also received the ČSP / —1944— overprint in Khust. In addition, on behalf of the Czechoslovak administration, several postal cards and other postal forms were overprinted in Mukachiv with a ČSR handstamp. Like the Khust postal stationery materials, few of these items were ever put to use.
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