A dizzying array of commemorations covers this page of stamps in Abreu Hernández’s album. While top designs honor flora, fauna, art, cinema, and the Moscow Summer Olympics of 1980 (boycotted by much of the Western world), other stamps depict guerilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara, as well as Tania Bunke, his lover and East German spy, whom a US-trained unit had recently executed in Bolivia. Also featured are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Communist Party members convicted and executed by the United States in 1953 for passing information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Eduardo “Guayo” Hernández Collection, Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
