Not your average poster shop

This is one of the coolest shops i've found in a long time. Hidden in the old quarter of Hanoi, it sells prints of old Vietnamese wartime Propaganda posters piled 30 deep on small wooden desks. The work is mainly from the American Vietnam war and focussed largely on maintaining high moral amongst the population, encouraging hard work, and fostering national pride, which in Vietnam is not hard to come by. However there is the odd anti-american poster hidden away, and when the Vietnamese to 'anti-american' they really go for it.
The minimalist but extremely powerful images express a focussed and straight to the point message, and are still often seen painted onto walls up and down the country. The posters in the shop were hand printed with usually only three colours, most often red, black and green or yellow, while using the colour of the stock to good effect. Being a communist country, propaganda is by no means dead in Vietnam, it's just expressed in different ways now there isn't such an obvious enemy dropping bombs on them... for once.