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This Is Czechoslovakia, One of the United Nations, 1939 Czechoslovakia poster: A folded national-profile sheet headed 'this

This Is Czechoslovakia, One of the United Nations

A folded national-profile sheet headed 'this is CZECHOSLOVAKIA' with sections 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country': photographs of engineers, schoolchildren, gymnasts and towns, a statistics panel, a history text and the banner 'One of the United Nations'. The tell for card-stacking is the selection: a history of the 'last happy decades' and achievements such as the Bren gun, with no unfavourable facts; the text closes by placing the Czechoslovaks 'at the side of the United Nations'.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stackingGlittering generalities
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Czechoslovak Government Information Service (issuer); artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Czechoslovakia
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Czechoslovak Government in Exile
Leader
Edvard Benes
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
War and the military, Science and technology, Media and information
Event
World War II
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (foreign-government imprint lithographed in the US)
Czechoslovak Government Information Service; F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899e.

Text on the object

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

this is
CZECHOSLOVAKIA

the people
CZECHOSLOVAK ENGINEERS INVENTED THE BREN GUN.
CZECHOSLOVAK YOUTH PREPARING FOR THEIR FUTURE TASKS.
SWIMMING POOL IN SPA PIESTANY.
MEN'S CALISTHENICS: SOKOL GYMNASTIC ORGANIZATION. PRECISION AND QUALITY.
SKILLED CRAFTSMEN

their work
POPULATION 15,000,000
35% agricultural workers  35% industrial workers  17% professionals and public service  13% others
[statistics on production, industry, agriculture, commerce, libraries, schools and social legislation not reproduced]

the country
T. G. MASARYK, PRESIDENT-LIBERATOR.
TOWNSQUARE IN SLOVAKIA.
THE CATHEDRAL AND CASTLE HRADCANY IN PRAGUE.
AMERICA IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER.
KUTNA HORA (5000 POP.) CATHEDRAL OF ST. BARBARA.

Czechoslovakia appears in the pages of history in the 9th Century as the Great Moravian Empire [...] As in the last World War the Czechoslovaks fight today at the side of the United Nations to achieve liberty once again.

f. c. veit and s. m. adler
Lithographed in the United States of America
ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ISSUED BY CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE

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