This stamp was issued in 1965 by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, then only the northern half of the country, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Asian-African solidarity conference in Bandung in 1955. The brown and yellow peoples of Africa and Asia are grasping a fanged serpent labelled with "USA" and dollar signs. While the US had been meddling in Vietnam for years, 1965 really marked the beginning of all-out war. Later Vietnamese stamps wouldn't treat their fight against the U.S. quite so metaphorically.
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