Έλληνες προσοχή! Όσοι αγαπούν αληθινά την Ελλάδα ψηφίζουν Λαϊκόν Κόμμα (Greeks, beware! Those who truly love Greece vote Populist Party)

Colour poster: two cartoon figures marked 'K.K.', and a red cloth also marked 'K.K.', hauled out from under a big tied sack beside a tower resembling Thessaloniki's White Tower, above the slogan 'Greeks, beware! Those who truly love Greece vote Populist Party'. The tell: love of country is made the test of a party vote, so any other vote reads as not loving Greece.

Date: 1946
Period: Cold War
Made by: Poster for the Populist Party (Laikon Komma) campaign, Athens; printed by K. P. Karydis, lithographers (sponsor not printed on the sheet)
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Kingdom of Greece
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Sofoulis Government
Leader: Themistoklis Sofoulis
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Theme: Elections and party politics
Event: Greek Legislative Election 1946
Techniques: Identity fusion
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA-MIET) via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: CC BY 4.0 (rights statement in ELIA's Europeana record, via SearchCulture.gr)
Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA-MIET), Athens, via Europeana and SearchCulture.gr, CC BY 4.0

Text on the object

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

Κ. Π. ΚΑΡΥΔΗΣ Α.Ε.   [printer's imprint, top left, small]

Έλληνες προσοχή!
ΟΣΟΙ ΑΓΑΠΟΥΝ ΑΛΗΘΙΝΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΨΗΦΙΖΟΥΝ
ΛΑΪΚΟΝ ΚΟΜΜΑ

[on the cartoon:] Κ.Κ.   Κ.Κ.   Κ.Κ.
[bottom right: monogram [illegible] and 'Νο 1']

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

K. P. KARYDIS S.A. [printer's imprint, top left, small]

Greeks, beware!
THOSE WHO TRULY LOVE GREECE VOTE
POPULIST PARTY

[on the cartoon:] K.K.   K.K.   K.K.
[bottom right: monogram [illegible] and 'No 1']

Read from the 424 x 600 px viewer file; the small imprint at top left was read with difficulty and matches the printer named in ELIA's record. Accent marks are given in modern monotonic form. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.