Third Czechoslovak Republic. Czechoslovakia. Lapel badge with the national emblem introduced in 1960. Manufactured by Mincovna, Kremnica. Enamelled.

The national emblem of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, used from 1960 to 1990, was adopted by Law No. 163 on November 17, 1960.

After February 1948, and especially in the 1950s, there was consideration to complement state symbols with symbols of proletarian internationalism. Initially, by Government Decree No. 29 on October 16, 1955, a change was made to the flags of military ships, where the state emblem was replaced with a five-pointed red star with a lion.

With the arrival of the new constitution in 1960, a single state emblem was introduced. It featured a shield made of a Hussite pavement framed in red gold, on which there was a silver two-tailed lion leaping in gold armour, and, of course, without a crown, which was replaced by a red star framed in yellow gold. In the center, there was a shield framed in red gold, above which the blue mountains of Kriváň rose, from which the golden flame of the revolution shone. The author of the emblem was Milan Hegar.

It was used until April 23, 1990, during the brief existence of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic. It was later replaced by the state emblem of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

In relation to the federalization of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, a commission was established in the Office of the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to determine the republic’s symbols under the leadership of Professor Šebánek. In mid-1969, a couple of proposals (one featuring a Czech lion and another with a Moravian-Silesian shield split in half at the paw) were presented to the republican government and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Both proposals were archived, and the symbols of the republics were not adopted until 1990.