Ww 2 Censored Cover Netherlands To Latvia 2 Month Travel

I picked this up as part of a lot I purchased on ebay from someone in Latvia. It's one of those 'if the cover could only talk' kind. It was sent Airmail from Amsterdam to Riga Latvia a couple of months after the end of World War 2. It has Netherlands Sc 258 machine cancelled Amsterdam 20 VIII 1945 with the slogan "Stamp at the top of the right-angle". On the reverse is a "Voennaya Tsenzura" Soviet Censors handstamp and 2 Riga receiving cancels 23.X.45 and 24.X.45.

For starters you have to wonder about the 2 month travel time. How much was the disruptions of war and how much of that was due to the Soviet Unions 'annexation' of Latvia. And how much of a delay was there in getting past the censors? But then also there's the back story of the disruption of the family with part having left Latvia who knows when and part left behind in Latvia with no freedom to do anything.

John, great cover! Being Dutch, I am sort of partial to it. But you must have gotten the translation of the cancel from Google. Problem with these computer translations is they don't make any sense. The cancel reads: " Stamps in the upper right corner". The Dutch word "hoek" is translated as both corner and angle.

Peter

Thanks. Yes I did. If you think that's bad, you should see some of the stuff it does in Latvian.

John, by the way, I forgot the most important thing here! You are asking about the two months travel time? The cancel shows the word "vlugger" on the bottom, but the second word "verzending" did not make it.
The complete cancel reads: "Stamps in the upper right corner means faster shipment"!
Who knows how slow it would have been with the stamp in another spot!

Peter