24. veebruaril valite vabaduse: Eesti Kongress (On 24 February choose freedom: Estonian Congress), election poster, 1990
A black-and-white woodcut-style figure in a tunic scatters seed from a basket, a sword at the hip, under a poster headline that names a date and the word 'freedom'. The tell is the single virtue word, 'vabaduse' (freedom), carrying the whole appeal to turn out for the Estonian Congress election.
- Date
- February 1990
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Estonian Congress election campaign (Citizens' Committees movement); issuing body not named on the poster
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Singing Revolution
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Saaremaa Museum, via MuIS and Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC0 1.0, stated by the holding museum (Saaremaa Museum) on MuIS and Europeana
Saaremaa Museum, SM _ 9939:154 Ard (CC0 1.0), via MuIS / Europeana. Artist not named in the record.
Text on the object
24. VEEBRUARIL VALITE VABADUSE EESTI KONGRESS
ON 24 FEBRUARY YOU CHOOSE (CHOOSE) FREEDOM ESTONIAN CONGRESS
Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 'Valite' is the second-person plural form of 'valima' (to choose or elect), usable as statement or exhortation; 'vabaduse' is the genitive/accusative form of 'vabadus' (freedom). The museum's colour target strip at the top of the scan is not part of the poster.
