Referendum poster 'Referendum za Hrvatsku' (Croatia, May 1991)
Blue poster with a red-white strip and the Croatian chequerboard shield at the top, the word REFERENDUM in white, a pale 'ZA' (for) set inside a lighter panel, and HRVATSKU (Croatia) at the foot in red-white-blue lettering above the date 19 May 1991. The tells are that the only word of the choice shown is 'for', joined by the layout to the country's name, and that the national colours and arms carry the message in place of the ballot wording.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 1991
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Republic of Croatia (government-issued referendum poster; designer unknown)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Croatia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Tudjman Government
- Leader
- Franjo Tudjman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Croatian Independence Referendum 1991
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph by SpeedyGonsales, from hr.wikipedia), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (PD-Croatia-exempt, official government material, per Commons)
Poster: design unknown, Republic of Croatia government; photograph by SpeedyGonsales via Wikimedia Commons (File:1991 Croatian independence referenum government issued poster.jpg), tagged PD-Croatia-exempt.
Text on the object
Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked
REFERENDUM ZA HRVATSKU 19. SVIBNJA 1991.
Referendum / FOR / CROATIA / 19 May 1991. (Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.)
