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title: This Is Greece, One of the United Nations
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/greece-this-is-greece-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/
description: A sheet headed 'this is GREECE' with sections 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country', photographs of harvests, villages.
section: Collection
---

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# This Is Greece, One of the United Nations

A sheet headed 'this is GREECE' with sections 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country', photographs of harvests, villages, ports and a war-damaged street in Kastoria, a statistics panel and a history text running from Ancient Greece to the Italian attack of 28 October 1940. The tell for glittering-generalities is the virtue language ('freedom-loving people over dictatorship', 'a great ideal for other men to follow'); card-stacking shows in a history that stresses Greek achievements and wartime role and omits unfavourable facts.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
this is
GREECE

the people
HARVEST IN MACEDONIA
MONKS OF MOUNT ATHOS WOODCARVING
GRAPE-PICKING IN THE VINEYARDS OF GREECE
DESTRUCTION OF WAR IN KASTORIA, MACEDONIA

their work
Throughout 3000 years, Greece, a country small in size, has always struck such gallant blows for freedom and Democracy that, with her culture and her art, she has forever forged a great ideal for other men to follow.
POPULATION: 7,500,000. Each figure represents 500,000 persons.
[statistics not reproduced]

the country
SAILBOATS IN PORT
A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN THE PELOPONNESE
PORT OF SALONIKA
ITHACA, THE HOME OF ULYSSES

Greece is located at the southeastern tip of Europe. Her people have a history going back 3000 years. [...] Although Greece was occupied finally by Germany, Italy and Bulgaria and is suffering severely from starvation, she is still fighting on inside and outside the country for the cause of freedom.

ACROPOLIS, VIEW OF THE PROPYLAEA

f. c. veit and s. m. adler
Lithographed in the United States of America
ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ISSUED BY GREEK GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF INFORMATION
```

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