2023Europa - Peace - Sheetlets

The theme of these two stamps prompts us to ask how much the word “peace” still means in the various languages of the world. If it did mean something, we would not be faced, in the modern world, with the menacing decisions and actions that, through countless wars and conflicts, have exactly the opposite effect. The Slovene word for peace is mir. In other languages this word (and variants thereof) not only refers to the lasting peace that we all yearn for, it also has meanings of “world”, “humanity”, “universe” and “tranquillity”.