One of the first postage stamp

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s to commemorate Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

, released after the 1973 coup in Chile, was the Soviet

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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".

A stamp was released by Magyar Posta

Magyar Posta

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 in Hungary

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 in 1974 shortly after the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile 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 extremes of reaction to the event. Scott

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 Cuba

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 #2605 shows the burning presidential palace of La Moneda ("The Mint") and a picture of Allende. The caption refers to him as having "fallen in combat".

In contrast, Chile

Chile

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 still under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

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 at that time, issued Scott Chile

Chile

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