The Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang Party Flag, 1927-1975.
This cotton flag was made for the Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnamese Nationalist Party), a political party that sought independence for Vietnam that used red, white and blue flags like this example. Often compared to the Chinese Kuomintang, on whose flag they based the VNQDD flag, the party was originally a socialist revolutionary political party founded in the 1920s, which sought independence from France.
In 1945, after WWII, the VNQDD was briefly allied with the Vietnamese communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, against the French but the alliance proved ideologically incompatible and Ho Chi Minh purged the VNQDD. After the partition of Vietnam in 1954, the VNQDD fled to the south and became virulently anti-communist. After the communist victory over the south in 1975, Vietnam was established as a single party after the Vietnamese Communist Party the VNQDD was made illegal, surviving vestigialy in South Vietnamese expatriate comminutes.
Provenance:
Acquired by purchase at J&S Military Surplus, Mos Landing, CA, 1990s.
ZFC Important Flag
Item is Framed
Sources:
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang Party, Wikipedia, 1 May 2012, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Nam_Quoc_Dan_Dang
Dai Viet Nationalist Party, Vietnam, Flags of the World, 1 May 2012, from: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/vn%7Ddv.html
Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection
