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title: Jugoslavia the Trump Card
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugoslavia-the-trump-card-yugoslavia-1939/
description: A hand holds up a playing card marked with spades and the red words 'UNYIELDING RESISTANCE', under the script title 'Jugoslavia' and the caption 'THE TRUMP
section: Collection
---

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[![Jugoslavia the Trump Card, 1939 Yugoslavia poster: A hand holds up a playing card marked with spades and the red words](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugoslavia-the-trump-card-yugoslavia-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugoslavia-the-trump-card-yugoslavia-1939.jpg)

# Jugoslavia the Trump Card

A hand holds up a playing card marked with spades and the red words 'UNYIELDING RESISTANCE', under the script title 'Jugoslavia' and the caption 'THE TRUMP CARD'. The tell is the card metaphor, which names resistance as a decisive asset without any evidence, figures or dates, a virtue phrase standing in for a testable claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Jugoslavia

UNYIELDING
RESISTANCE

THE
TRUMP    CARD
```

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