This article discusses the portrayal of

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

on postage stamps.

Allende on stamps

One of the first

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s to commemorate Salvador Allende, released after the

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, was the

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one. It was issued just two months after the event and had a circulation of 3.8 million. The issue was designed by the painter A. Kovrizhkin and bore the title "Salvador Allende, President of the Republic of Chile, Laureate of the Lenin Peace Prize, 1908 - 11.IX.1973".Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR 1918-1974, of the

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publisher, Moscow, 1976 A stamp was released by

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in 1974 shortly after the September 11,

that ended the socialist government of Salvador Allende. The stamp bore an image of Allende that had become popular during his election campaign in 1970. Two other stamps, both on the tenth anniversary of the coup, represent extreme reactions to the event. Scott

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#2605 shows the burning presidential palace of

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("The Mint") and a picture of Allende. The caption refers to him as having "fallen in combat". In contrast,

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, still under the military dictatorship of General

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at that time, issued Scott

#656, labeled "Ten Years of Liberty," celebrating the decade since the fall of Allende and the rise of the ''junta''.

References and sources

;Notes {{Reflist ;Sources * Jack Child, "The Politics and Semiotics of the Smallest Icons of Popular Culture: Latin American Postage Stamps", ''Latin American Research Review'', Vol. 40, no. 1, February 2005. Postage stamps Philately of Chile Cultural depictions of Salvador Allende