Item no. C267 (cancel)
Type: cancel
Country: Slovakia
Date of use: 21 August 2018
Special cancel on postcard to Poland. It’s design is based on Slovak photographer LADISLAV BIELIK’s (1939 – 1984) iconic photograph “The Bare-chested Man in Front of the Occupiers’ Tank” taken in Bratislava on 21st of August 1968, when troops of Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia as a “brotherly help” against Alexander Dubček’s government. The original picture has been proclaimed one of the 100 most important photos of the 20th Century.