--- title: Official notice of the referendum on Croatia's status, Republic Commission (Zagreb, 9 May 1991) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/croatia-referendum-official-notice-1991/ description: Framed printed notice headed OBAVIJEST (Notice) with a red-white strip and the chequerboard shield at the top and a ghosted 'REFERENDUM' behind the text. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Official notice of the referendum on Croatia's status, Republic [![Official notice of the referendum on Croatia's status, 1991 Croatia document: Framed printed notice headed OBAVIJEST (Notice)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/croatia-referendum-official-notice-1991.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/croatia-referendum-official-notice-1991.jpg) # Official notice of the referendum on Croatia's status, Republic Commission (Zagreb, 9 May 1991) Framed printed notice headed OBAVIJEST (Notice) with a red-white strip and the chequerboard shield at the top and a ghosted 'REFERENDUM' behind the text. It announces the vote of 19 May 1991 and prints two questions, each answered ZA or PROTIV, on a blue and a red ballot. The tell is the wording of the questions: the first, on an independent Croatia, includes a guarantee of cultural autonomy and civil rights for Serbs, and the second attributes the option of staying in a single Yugoslav federal state to Serbia and Montenegro. ## Propaganda techniques used in this document [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Full record Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights ## Text on the object Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` OBAVIJEST Republička komisija za provedbu referenduma osnovana Odlukom Predsjednika Republike Hrvatske od 26. travnja 1991. ("Narodne novine" 21/91) objavljuje da će se u Republici Hrvatskoj održati referendum u nedjelju, 19. svibnja 1991. godine Na referendumu će građani sa "ZA" ili "PROTIV" odgovoriti na dva slijedeća pitanja postavljena na dva listića. 1) Jeste li za to da Republika Hrvatska, kao suverena i samostalna država, koja jamči kulturnu autonomiju i sva građanska prava Srbima i pripadnicima drugih nacionalnosti u Hrvatskoj, može stupiti u savez suverenih država s drugim republikama (prema prijedlogu Republike Hrvatske i Republike Slovenije za rješenje državne krize SFRJ)? - PLAVI LISTIĆ ZA PROTIV 2) Jeste li za to da Republika Hrvatska ostane u Jugoslaviji kao jedinstvenoj saveznoj državi (prema prijedlogu Republike Srbije i Socijalističke Republike Crne Gore za rješenje državne krize u SFRJ)? - CRVENI LISTIĆ ZA PROTIV REPUBLIČKA KOMISIJA ZA PROVEDBU REFERENDUMA Zagreb, Radićev trg 6 Zagreb, 9. svibnja 1991. TAJNIK KOMISIJE Toni Glowatzky, v.r. PREDSJEDNIK KOMISIJE Vjekoslav Vidović, v.r. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` NOTICE The Republic Commission for the Conduct of the Referendum, established by the Decision of the President of the Republic of Croatia of 26 April 1991 ("Narodne novine" 21/91), announces that a referendum will be held in the Republic of Croatia on Sunday, 19 May 1991. At the referendum citizens will answer "FOR" or "AGAINST" to the following two questions, put on two ballot papers. 1) Are you in favour of the Republic of Croatia, as a sovereign and independent state which guarantees cultural autonomy and all civil rights to Serbs and members of other nationalities in Croatia, being able to enter an alliance of sovereign states with the other republics (according to the proposal of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia for resolving the state crisis of the SFRY)? - BLUE BALLOT FOR AGAINST 2) Are you in favour of the Republic of Croatia remaining in Yugoslavia as a single federal state (according to the proposal of the Republic of Serbia and the Socialist Republic of Montenegro for resolving the state crisis in the SFRY)? - RED BALLOT FOR AGAINST REPUBLIC COMMISSION FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE REFERENDUM Zagreb, Radićev trg 6 Zagreb, 9 May 1991. SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION Toni Glowatzky, signed PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION Vjekoslav Vidović, signed (Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 'v.r.' abbreviates 'vlastoručno', signed by hand.) ``` Read from a photograph of a framed copy with reflections across the glass; the signatory names are read from the image and the spelling of 'Vidović' is the least certain. Line breaks of the original are not kept. 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Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). 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