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 Югославия си заминава с кучешки картинки |
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| Автор | Юroмaн (Нерегистриран) | |
| Публикувано | 09.05.03 22:16 |
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DOGS AND THE YUGOSLAV POST OFFICE'S SWAN SONG. Stamps promoting the humane treatment of animals have been around for decades. They usually depict happy, well-groomed creatures that are as photogenic as one could imagine.
On 31 January, in one of its last acts before Yugoslavia became the new state of Serbia and Montenegro, the Yugoslav Post Office issued a set of four stamps and illustrated labels to publicize prevention of cruelty to dogs (Michel catalogue numbers 3103-3106).
But the stamps do not show pampered puppies with ribbons in their fur. The animals depicted are the abandoned dogs and their progeny that are painfully familiar sights in many post-communist Balkan urban landscapes.
It is to be hoped that the stamps will help call attention both at home and abroad to the plight of the dogs -- and to the problems that the animals sometimes pose to the community around them.
And who knows -- might this be the start of an era of Balkan "reality philately," which could include pensioners picking trash bins, war invalids begging, and child prostitutes soliciting foreign visitors? (Patrick Moore)
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