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title: Croatian war posters on display, including 'Hrvatska vas zove!' and 'Ne gledaj, pomozi' (Croatian History Museum, Zagreb, exhibit of 2012)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/croatia-war-posters-exhibit-hrvatska-vas-zove-1991/
description: Photograph of four framed Croatian war posters on a camouflage-pattern wall. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photograph of Croatian wartime recruitment posters, one with a red cross and figure motif, shown as displayed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Croatian war posters on display, including 'Hrvatska, 1991 Croatia poster: Photograph of four framed Croatian war posters](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/croatia-war-posters-exhibit-hrvatska-vas-zove-1991.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/croatia-war-posters-exhibit-hrvatska-vas-zove-1991.jpg)

# Croatian war posters on display, including 'Hrvatska vas zove!' and 'Ne gledaj, pomozi' (Croatian History Museum, Zagreb, exhibit of 2012)

Photograph of four framed Croatian war posters on a camouflage-pattern wall. They read 'HRVATSKA VAS ZOVE! / CROATIA NEEDS YOU NOW!' over two soldiers in a bright field, 'PAKRAC-LIPIK ne gledaj-pomozi / don't watch-help CROATIA' over a red cross-and-figure motif, '56. samostalna bojna H.V. Kutina' with a drawing of a soldier and a church tower, and a black-and-white soldier portrait headed 'ZA HRVATSKO KAO TIGAR'. The tells are the direct address to the viewer, the country's name as the caller, and the English text on two posters, which aims part of the appeal abroad.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
HRVATSKA
VAS ZOVE!
CROATIA NEEDS YOU NOW!

PAKRAC-LIPIK
ne gledaj-pomozi
don't watch-help
CROATIA

MOSLAVINA
56.
SAMOSTALNA
BOJNA H.V.
KUTINA

ZA HRVATSKO KAO TIGAR

[other posters at the left and foot of the frame partly out of view or illegible]
```

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

```
Croatian text only: CROATIA CALLS YOU! / Don't watch - help / 56th Independent Battalion, Croatian Army, Kutina / For Croatia like a tiger. (English text on the posters is as printed. Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.)
```

Read from a 960 px photograph at an angle with glare; the top-left poster's wording is the least certain reading ('HRVATSKO' as seen), and fragments of a poster at left are not transcribed.

[← Oath text for members of the Croatian National Guard (Hrvatska narodna garda), Croatia, 1991](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/croatia-national-guard-oath-1991/) [Gulf War leaflet, portrait with mourning band 'The cold face of death and war' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gulf-war-leaflet-cold-face-of-death-1991/)

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