Baoquocte.vn. The postage stamp set commemorating the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (1954 - 2024) is the eighth stamp set of Vietnam Post about Dien Bien Phu Victory.
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| The first set of stamps about the Dien Bien Phu Victory issued in October 1954, designed by artist Bui Trang Chuoc. (Source: Vietnam Post) |
The Ministry of Information and Communications will issue a postage stamp set “Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (1954 – 2024)” in April 2024. Since 1954, there have been 7 stamp sets recreating the historical event of Dien Bien Phu Victory issued by Vietnam Post.
The first set of stamps, named Dien Bien Victory (May 7, 1954) , was issued in October 1954, consisting of four stamps depicting the image of a Dien Bien soldier standing proudly on the roof of French General De Castries' bunker. However, the colors and prices of the stamps were changed, with the face values being 10 dong, 50 dong, 150 dong and 0.6 kg of rice, respectively.
In particular, the designer of the Dien Bien Phu Victory postage stamp set (May 7, 1954) , artist Bui Trang Chuoc, was the first Vietnamese to draw postage stamps in Indochina, the artist who drew the Vietnamese national emblem, and also the designer of many valuable stamp sets in the history of Vietnamese postage stamps.
The most recently issued stamp set about the Dien Bien Phu Victory is the 60th Anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (1954-2014) designed by artist To Minh Trang, Vietnam Post Corporation, including 1 model, with a face value of 3,000 VND.
The stamp set is designed in a modern graphic style, showing the image of the Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument and the image of Ban flowers - a typical flower of the Northwestern mountains and forests of the Fatherland. The image of the monument and Ban flowers blooming against the blue sky and the relief of the Dien Bien Phu campaign in the Dien Bien Phu Monument Complex area represents the great victory in the aspiration for a peaceful future of the whole nation.
The postage stamp commemorating the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (1954 - 2024) is one of two stamp themes that the Ministry of Information and Communications has just added to the 2024 postage stamp theme program, along with the theme commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Since then, every 10 years, Vietnam Post has organized the design and issuance of postage stamps to commemorate the 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory. These postage stamps have recreated the most typical images during the process of our army and people fighting and winning at the Dien Bien Phu battlefield as well as images commemorating the victory of our army and people at the Dien Bien "basin" in 1954.
This year, towards the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, from mid-January, the Central Council of Young Pioneers, Vietnam Post and the Vietnam Stamp Association have coordinated to organize the 2024 postage stamp collection and research contest with the theme "70 years of the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory through postage stamps".
Expected to last until mid-April, the contest is for young pioneers and children aged 8-15 across the country, with the aim of helping young people gain more knowledge about the history of the Vietnamese people's struggle to defend the country, thereby arousing love for the homeland, national pride and gratitude to previous generations.
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