CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CZECHOSLOVAKIA / ČESKOSLOVENSKO.

16th Communist Party Congress Goals and Projects.
Map of telecommunications.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 20.10.1984.
Face value: 1 Czecoslovakian koruna.
Design: Jaroslav Kodejš (b. 1938).
Engraving: Miloš Ondráček (b. 1936) and Václav Fajt (b. 1952).
Printing: Photogravure and recess.
Print: 17,520,000 copies.
Size: 44 x 27 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 2637.
- Michel No. 2786.
- Scott No. 2531.
- StampWorld No. 2783. 
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2753.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2604.

The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) was founded at the Congress of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party held in Prague between May 14 and 16, 1921 and remained active until 1992 (except during the German occupation of the country in WWII). Its first leader was Václav Šturc (1858-1939). The KSČ exercised power in the country from 1948 to 1989. The "Law on the illegality of the communist regime and resistance against it", passed in 1993 in the Czech Republic, made it illegal in the new Republic.