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title: '"Usted elige" leaflet: Chilean flag above a hammer-and-sickle field (1988 plebiscite period)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chile-usted-elige-leaflet-1988/
description: A leaflet stacks the Chilean flag (blue canton, white star, white and red stripes) over a red field carrying a hammer, sickle and star, with 'USTED…
section: Collection
---

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# "Usted elige" leaflet: Chilean flag above a hammer-and-sickle field (1988 plebiscite period)

A leaflet stacks the Chilean flag (blue canton, white star, white and red stripes) over a red field carrying a hammer, sickle and star, with 'USTED ELIGE' ('You choose') across the white band between them. The tell is the two-item menu: the national flag on one side and the Soviet emblem on the other, so the choice is framed as homeland or communism and the emblem's stigma is pasted onto the unnamed alternative.

## Text on the object

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

```
USTED ELIGE

[Chilean flag at the top; hammer, sickle and star on a red field below]
[grey band at the foot, added by the library:] memoriachilena.cl
```

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

```
YOU CHOOSE
```

The only printed words on the leaflet are 'USTED ELIGE' in blue capitals on the white band. The foot band is the library's watermark.

[← "Pinochet: Nunca nadie hizo más por la familia chilena": 1988 plebiscite pamphlet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chile-pinochet-nunca-nadie-familia-1988/) [Дым, в котором мы живём (The Smoke in Which We Live) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dym-v-kotorom-my-zhivyom-1988/)

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