The celebration of Lenin's anniversary was an mandatory act of faith toward the Communism, and for this reason many Czechoslovakian stamps are dedicated to him. The first of them, shown below on the FDC, appeared in 1949 and commemorated the 25th death anniversary of the disappeared ruler.

     On the cachet, the engraver put the imagine of Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow.

   After a set dedicated to the 70th birth anniversary of Generalissimos Stalin (1949, not shown), and a stamp that shows Stalin and Gottwald (1951, not displayed), two stamps issued on 7th of Nov. 1952 celebrate the 35th anniversary of October 1917 putsch and the Month of Czechoslovakian-Soviet friendship.

    The stamps show Lenin and Stalin discussing with soldiers of the Red Army (after a drawing of P.W. Vassiliev).

   During the so-called "Prague Spring", the expression used to designate a "Communism with a Human Face" that tried to implement the reformist Communist party, the CSSR postal administration has issued a stamp commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of the founder of Communism, KarlMarx.

     And even if UNESCO was also mentioned, this wasn't of course sufficient to demonstrate the faith of Czech and Slovaks in Communism...

    A few month later the troops of the Warsaw Pact invaded the "reformist" Czechoslovakia. See above a young Czech greeting the Soviet troops with the Nazi salute, reminding them Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, in March 1939.

   Above we show a sheet dedicated to the inspirer of post - Prague Spring Communist leaders, issued by Czechoslovakia in 1985 (Sc. 2250, Mi. Block 62).  Even the insignificant 115th years birth anniversary of Lenin has to be celebrated by the Czechoslovakia (re-occupied in 1968 by Russian troops) by not less than a sheet of six stamps and four labels!

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