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I can't identify these Czech stamps. On the red one there is a date, 11-IV-1945. 
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I don't think it is a local Skalica issue .......first it isn't a Slovakia stamp . Second it says Czechoslovakia ,somebody trying to keep the country together . Third that's a Russian soldier on that stamp ,so what is the importance of the date ? The date is the day that the German troops in Czechoslovakia surrendered . It is also the day the Russian agents arrested many Russian emigres in Prague,the Czech call that day "the day of the destruction of Russian intellectuals" You lose me ,to call it a Slovakian city local . |
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It was simply a lucky find as I was researching Skalica given I was not able to find it in Scott. Just a curiosity thing for me but fun to learn.
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Interesting article and confirms what I said above .This wasn't just a local group looking to issue fund raising stamps to rebuilt ,the Soviet military was involued --Really !!!! I don't think so ,it was U.S.S.R. Intelligence agents involued with the idea of getting the whole of Czechoslovkia and push out General Patton's Army . |
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