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Old July 16th 03, 12:57 PM
Dick Cardy
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"Rodney" wrote in message
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Can someone please explain
the significance of this card please.
I assume it is just an insert for a past minisheet.
I am unable to understand the text.
http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox...oto&PhotoID=51
Thankyou.



SG MS530a ???????????

Dick


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Old July 16th 03, 03:50 PM
Victor Manta
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"Rodney" wrote in message
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Can someone please explain
the significance of this card please.
I assume it is just an insert for a past minisheet.
I am unable to understand the text.
http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox...oto&PhotoID=51
Thankyou.


In Michel this is the No. 556 (Block 10), issued 23rd Nov. 1948, print run
439,000 sheets. Dedicated to the 52nd birth anniversary of Klement Gottwald.

Some words about the historical character himself.

"Klement Gottwald became president of Czechoslovakia, after Eduard Benes
resigned, on June 14th 1948, and what rapidly became a totalitarian regime
was now in place. During his presidency, two hundred and thirty death
sentences were handed out, and almost two hundred thousand so-called enemies
of the state were sent to prison or labour camps. Jiri Kocian:
"The period from 1948 to shortly after Gottwald's death was probably the
harshest of the Communist regime. Out of the two hundred and thirty death
sentences, about one hundred and eighty people were executed, but this does
not include people who were shot while trying to escape from the camps, were
beaten to death for minor offences in the camps, or died due to the terrible
conditions there. It also, of course, does not include the lives that were
ruined. Children who weren't allowed to study because of their parents,
families who suffered during the political purges and mass emigration to
escape from the Communists. Gottwald is directly responsible for most of
what took place after the coup."

It was not only the common people who suffered during the purges. Klement
Gottwald turned on members of his party, including some of his closest
allies, purging the party in a similar way to another Communist dictator:" "

Source: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/36683

Sorry, cannot translate the text, probably a Communist slogan, that begins
with something like "You should be ...".

Victor Manta
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