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When the Viet Minh went to war against the French following World War II, a home grown communist insurgency known as the Pathet Lao ("The Land of the Lao") rose up to fight the French in Laos.
The Pathet Lao struggle for domination of the country coincided with the greater war being waged in Vietnam between the US and North Vietnam. When Saigon fell to communist forces in 1975, the Laotian capital Luang Prabang was not long in following suit.
The communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party continue to rule the country, but, like Vietnam and China, has turned to free markets strategies in order to strengthen the Laotian economy.
Imbued with color and texture, the stamps issued by the Kingdom of Laos certainly qualify as among the most beautiful stamps ever designed.
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A work of art in miniature, this Laotian stamp from 1960 shows a Buddhist monk ministering to the needs of villagers.
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This temple dancer making a ritual prayer reminds us of a Laos rich in Buddhist and Hindu tradition. Issued in 1971. (Scott 225) |
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