If someone considers what to create postal stamp - simple business he deceives himself and others. Because, in case of an error it in at least will be embarrassed, and as a maximum... Even to think terribly. Diplomatic scandal, Do you want, aren't you?
Once mail of Tajikistan has presented an instructive lesson to those who thoughtlessly draws everything on stamps that will like. In 2003 in Tajikistan the Olympic post issue devoted to the future 28th and 29th Olympic Games has been prepared and entered into the circulation. Accordingly in Athens and in Beijing. Images of athletes, kinds of Olympic disciplines, symbols of Greece and China, date of carrying out of games, and also the Olympic fire stylised under contours of two states.
With Greece it has appeared everything is all right. And here China has sent to Tajikistan a note of protest. Because in state contours the territory of Taiwan - "a rebellious province" which sovereignty China does not recognise and with which is in a condition of "cold" war has not been designated. At once words of Jacobean Josephe Fouche are recollected: "It more than a crime. It is an error".

The inexcusable oversight could hardly cost to Tajikistan political, economic, and, probably, and military sanctions from outside a nuclear superstate. Whether the state Tajikistan is ready to be responsible for errors of authors of stamps? Scandal hardly managed to be settled, having promised to destroy the edition of post issue. But how to withdraw stamps which have crept away for a long time all over the world among philatelists and fans of Olympic subjects? "Forgive them, my Good, they are silly and do not know what they are doing!" (The citation from the Gospel).
This time to Tadjiks their illiteracy has escaped punishment. Whether it there is an object lesson for all the others?