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title: 'Εθνική εξόρμηση για την Εργασία και τη Νίκη: 21 Μαρτίου 1949, Ημέρα του Αγρότου (National Campaign for Work and Victory: Farmers'' Day)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ethniki-exormisi-ergasia-nike-imera-agrotou-1949/
description: 'Colour poster: a farming couple with a baby look into a beam of light showing cattle, a tractor, a combine, harrows and sacks marked ''seed'' and…'
section: Collection
---

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# Εθνική εξόρμηση για την Εργασία και τη Νίκη: 21 Μαρτίου 1949, Ημέρα του Αγρότου (National Campaign for Work and Victory: Farmers' Day)

Colour poster: a farming couple with a baby look into a beam of light showing cattle, a tractor, a combine, harrows and sacks marked 'seed' and 'fertiliser', under 'National Campaign for Work and Victory, 21 March 1949, Farmers' Day'. The panel addresses 'Guerrilla-stricken!' and promises farm equipment 'from the Marshall Plan'. The tell: virtue-word campaign names and a promise of tomorrow set against 'the hard yesterday'.

## Text on the object

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

```
ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΕΞΟΡΜΗΣΗ
γιά τήν Έργασία
καί τήν Νίκη
21 Μαρτίου 1949
ΗΜΕΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΡΟΤΟΥ

[on the barn:] ΚΕΝΤΡΑ ΕΞΟΔΙΑΣΜΟΥ
[on the sacks:] ΣΠΟΡΟ   ΛΙΠΑΣΜΑΤΑ

ΑΝΤΑΡΤΟΠΛΗΚΤΟΙ! Σκληρό ήταν το χθές...
Αύριο όμως θά πάτε στο χωριό σας μετόν αγροτικό σας οπλισμό, πού σας προσφέρει το Σχέδιο Μάρσαλ.

ΕΚΤ. ΟΡΦ/ΕΤ. ΚΟΝΤΟΓΟΝΗ-ΜΑΛΙΚΟΥΤΗ [imprint, bottom left]
```

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

```
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
for Work
and Victory
21 March 1949
FARMERS' DAY

[on the barn:] SUPPLY CENTRES [reading uncertain]
[on the sacks:] SEED   FERTILISERS

GUERRILLA-STRICKEN! Yesterday was hard...
But tomorrow you will go to your village with the farm equipment that the Marshall Plan offers you.

PRINTED BY KONTOGONIS-MALIKOUTIS [imprint, bottom left, reading uncertain]
```

Read from the 433 x 600 px viewer file at 2x enlargement. The barn lettering and the small imprint are read with difficulty; 'Μαρτίου' and the accents follow the printed (polytonic) text only approximately. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Kaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kaoem-boeroeh-kaoem-tani-bersatoelah-1949/) [FDJ march-past banners at the 2nd World Festival of Youth, Budapest →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-banners-budapest-world-youth-festival-1949/)

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