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'.
- Date
- March 21, 1949
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Greek 'National Campaign for Work and Victory' (Εθνική εξόρμηση), Farmers' Day sheet; printer Kontogonis-Malikoutis (sponsor not named on the sheet)
- Country
- Kingdom of Greece
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Sofoulis Government
- Leader
- Themistoklis Sofoulis
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- Greek Civil War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- 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
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]
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.
