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title: '"Vous l''aimez votre pays": Communist Party of Belgium election poster, Brussels'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/belgian-communist-votez-555-1968/
description: 'A Brussels hoarding carries a Communist Party of Belgium poster for the 31 March 1968 general election: ''You love it, your country'', a young couple in…'
section: Collection
---

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# "Vous l'aimez votre pays": Communist Party of Belgium election poster, Brussels

A Brussels hoarding carries a Communist Party of Belgium poster for the 31 March 1968 general election: 'You love it, your country', a young couple in everyday dress, ribbons on a rose reading 'Security' 'Federalism' 'of employment', 'Trust in the labour movement', 'Vote Communist' and the list number 555. Virtue words stand in for a programme, and the couple is offered as the voter.

- **Date:** March 18, 1968
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Communist Party of Belgium (poster photographed in Brussels by Anefo)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Belgium](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=belgium)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [Vanden Boeynants Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=vanden-boeynants-government)
- **Leader:** [Paul Vanden Boeynants](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=paul-vanden-boeynants)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Event:** [1968 Belgian General Election](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=1968-belgian-general-election)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Nationaal Archief (Fotocollectie Anefo), via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verkiezingen_in_Belgie_31_maart_aanstaande._Affiche_Communistische_Partij_in_Bru,_Bestanddeelnr_921-1735.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief / Anefo release; Commons file page tagged CC0) Eric Koch / Anefo / Nationaal Archief, item 921-1735 (CC0; no attribution required)

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
VOUS L'AIMEZ VOTRE PAYS

SECURITE
FEDERALISME D'EMPLOI

CONFIANCE AU
MOUVEMENT OUVRIER

votez communiste

555

[small printer's imprint at foot: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
YOU LOVE IT, YOUR COUNTRY

SECURITY
FEDERALISM / OF EMPLOYMENT [ribbons; read as 'job security' and 'federalism']

CONFIDENCE IN THE
LABOUR MOVEMENT

vote communist

555
```

The two ribbons cross, so 'SECURITE' and 'D'EMPLOI' read as one phrase and 'FEDERALISME' as another; the layout is transcribed as printed. Accents are absent from the printed capitals.

[← 'Johnson Oorlogsmisdadiger' (Johnson, war criminal): placard at an anti-American demonstration, Amsterdam](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/johnson-oorlogsmisdadiger-banner-1968/) [Pražané! (Praguers!): leaflet from the first days of the 1968 occupation →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prazane-leaflet-prague-1968/)

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