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title: 'Kansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti! (The People''s Loan Is Our Country''s Safeguard!): Finnish loan board on a truck'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-varmuusvahti-1939/
description: A hand-painted board carried on a truck bed through Helsinki, in Finnish and Swedish, with a helmeted soldier holding a rifle with fixed bayonet beside a…
section: Collection
---

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# Kansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti! (The People's Loan Is Our Country's Safeguard!): Finnish loan board on a truck

A hand-painted board carried on a truck bed through Helsinki, in Finnish and Swedish, with a helmeted soldier holding a rifle with fixed bayonet beside a shadow group of a woman and children before a faint map of Finland. The slogan names the People's Loan 'our country's safeguard', so the soldier's protective role is borrowed for a loan subscription; no interest rate, term or amount appears on the board.

## Text on the object

Original (Finnish and Swedish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
KANSANLAINA
ON MAAMME
VARMUUSVAHTI!

VÅR GENERATION ÄR NU I TUREN!
```

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

```
THE PEOPLE'S LOAN IS OUR COUNTRY'S SAFEGUARD!

OUR GENERATION IS NOW IN ITS TURN!
```

The SA-kuva title gives the Finnish line as 'Kansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti' and the Swedish line as 'vår generation är nu i turen'. 'Varmuusvahti' is rendered 'safeguard' (literally a guard that gives certainty). Translation is machine translation by Claude, not fluent-reader verified.

[← Vakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-et-ehdi-mukaan-1939/) [Tääll' ovat jo taattomme taistelleet (Here Our Fathers Have Already Fought): Finnish poster before the Winter War →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-taattomme-taistelleet-1939/)

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