Czechoslovakia
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Width: 140 mm
Height: 96 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLIII
Stamp ID = 4105
Postcard for the 1955 Czechoslovak Spartakiad. The scene shows a game between Czechoslovakia and Switzerland
FromWikipedia
The Spartakiads or Spartakiades in Czechoslovakia were mass gymnastics events, designed to celebrate the Red Army's liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. They were organised by the Communist government as a replacement of the Sokol gatherings, which were disapproved by the regime and discontinued after World War II. The Spartakiads took place at the Strahov Stadium, the same place as the last pre-war Sokol gathering.
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Czechoslovakia (1918-93)
Czechoslovakia's first stamps were issued in 1918, and its last regular postage stamp was issued Dec. 18, 1992. In total Czechoslovakia issued almost 2,900 postage stamps, about 170 semipostal stamps, 93 airmal stamps, three special delivery stamps, three personal delivery stamps, more than 100 postage due stamps, 15 Official stamps, two local Official stamps and about 35 newspaper stamps.