“Freedom for Ukraine” — 🇺🇦 Ukrainian stamp published by the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) in London, 1958. The AUGB was founded in 1946 by Ukrainians who had come to the UK in the wake of the Second World War. 
The stamp was published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the November Uprising in Lviv, when Ukrainian nationalists took over the city and declared the establishment of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, of which Lviv was to be the capital.
The city’s Poles, caught unawares, quickly organised a resistance force in the western outskirts of the city. Volunteers bolstered the Polish numbers and a battle ensued, lasting until May 1919 when a detachment of the Polish military helped repel the Ukrainians.
The stamp shows Dmytro Vitovsky, the leader of the Ukrainian forces.
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