This week's Sunday Stamps is a theme-free day and our host, Viridian, suggests posting anything that we wish. So, today, I'd like to share this old Cambodian stamp, circa 1987, when Cambodia was still under the Vietnamese rule and was known then as the Peoples Republic of Kampuchea.

 It can be recalled that so much fighting happened between Cambodia and neighboring Vietnam concerning border disputes in the 60s. Then we all know about the Pol Pot regime in 1975 that lasted till 1979 when the Vietnamese troops captured and freed Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge. It is then when the whole country was under the occupation of Vietnamese forces and the pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea was established.

Despite its inherent weaknesses and the odds stacked against it, which included being dismissed as a "puppet state" of Vietnam and being imposed grievous economic sanctions, as well as a debilitating Civil War, the PRK/SOC (State of Cambodia, État du Cambodge) remained stronger than its enemies.^[2] Overcoming grinding poverty and isolation, it was able to achieve the reconstruction of Cambodia as a nation. - Source

Taking into consideration the last sentence in the above paragraph, this explains why there is an microwave antenna on this stamp. It shows that the country is well on its way to reconstruction and development. Unfortunately, there is not much information to be had about this stamp. In fact, I don't think the Cambodian Post Office has a complete stamp archive. So sad really because, aside from stamps,  there are countless valuable documents and records have been destroyed by the Khmer Rouge and are now lost forever.