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Postage stamps are not only signs of payment method for sending mail, produced by the postal authorities, but also called “The smallest graphic design”, “Small poster”, “A little jewel” and “A small and a large window that keeps the world”. Postage stamp is an unique expressive language that shows a small image, containing figures and texts. Stamps reflect the very political, propagative and agitational images in that they want to show the political leaders of the government. In 2013 will be the 60th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. And in the same year will mark the 155th anniversary of the creation of the first Russian postage stamps. It is therefore interesting to explore the relationship between the stamps and the power of Stalin. Stalin specifically used postage stamps to show his economic strategies and the positive results of Soviet five-year plan and uncaged workers and successful exploitation of the Great October Revolution and the victory of the Second World War. At the first time portraits of Stalin were with a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, or next to Lenin, for showing that Stalin himself is a direct heir of Lenin and Leninism. Stalin wanted to make Homosovieticus through propaganda and agitation, which depicted his power. But after N.Khrushchev, his portraits had disappeared forever on the postage stamps of the USSR. Even in 2013, which will be the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death, stamps with his image will not be issued. We wonder whether the postage stamps of the Stalinist theme ‘ever sleep in albums’ or ‘will be issued ever again’. And someday if stamps of Stalin will be re-published in Russia, it will mean that the political and cultural situation will be different compared to the present time.