Issued in 1945, this red 2.50 dinar stamp from the Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija (Democratic Federal Yugoslavia) honors the Yugoslav Partisans, the resistance fighters who liberated the country during World War II. The design features a determined partisan soldier holding a rifle with the symbolic red star of socialism behind, representing courage, liberation, and the founding of post-war Yugoslavia. Printed soon after the war, it marks the nation’s transition from monarchy to a socialist federation under Marshal Tito.