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title: Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/drv-stamp-viet-xo-trung-1954/
description: 100-dong stamp inscribed 'Bưu điện Việt-Nam' showing three portraits (Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong, left to right) before the Soviet, Vietnamese…
section: Collection
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[![Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/drv-stamp-viet-xo-trung-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/drv-stamp-viet-xo-trung-1954.jpg)

# Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)

100-dong stamp inscribed 'Bưu điện Việt-Nam' showing three portraits (Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong, left to right) before the Soviet, Vietnamese and Chinese flags, with the slogan 'Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết' and the dates '1950 18-1 1954'. Placing the Vietnamese leader between two allied leaders and flags lends him their standing (transfer); the slogan names unity without saying what it requires (glittering generality).

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
100 ĐỒNG
BƯU ĐIỆN VIỆT-NAM
VIỆT-XÔ-TRUNG ĐOÀN KẾT
1950
18-1
1954
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
100 DONG
VIETNAM POST
VIETNAM-SOVIET UNION-CHINA SOLIDARITY
1950
18-1 [18 January]
1954
```

Read from the 1024 px image. 'Xô' is the Vietnamese rendering of 'Soviet'; 'Trung' is China; 'đoàn kết' is rendered 'solidarity' (literally 'unite and bind').

[← "Perón cumple, Evita dignifica": the CGT tower, Buenos Aires, 1953](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peron-cumple-evita-dignifica-cgt-tower-1953/) [Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/truth-dollar-1954/)

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