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title: Jugoslavia's Merchant Seamen Fight...
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugoslavias-merchant-seamen-fight-yugoslavia-1939/
description: Ten grey ship silhouettes in two columns on a blue ground sit above a cut-out photograph of a crowd of merchant seamen at a ship's rail.
section: Collection
---

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[![Jugoslavia's Merchant Seamen Fight..., 1939 Yugoslavia poster: Ten grey ship silhouettes in two columns on a blue ground sit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugoslavias-merchant-seamen-fight-yugoslavia-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugoslavias-merchant-seamen-fight-yugoslavia-1939.jpg)

# Jugoslavia's Merchant Seamen Fight...

Ten grey ship silhouettes in two columns on a blue ground sit above a cut-out photograph of a crowd of merchant seamen at a ship's rail, under the stencil title 'Jugoslavia's' and the script line 'merchant seamen fight...'. The tell is the repeated ship icon standing for the merchant fleet and the group photograph offered as the vouching evidence, with no figures, dates or ship names given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
JUGOSLAVIA'S

merchant seamen fight...
```

[← Jugoslavia the Trump Card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugoslavia-the-trump-card-yugoslavia-1939/) [Jugoslavija (oil painting by Vladimir Ivanovic) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugoslavija-oil-painting-ivanovic-yugoslavia-1939/)

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