--- title: 'Kõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kompvekipaber-ulemnoukogu-valimised-1941/ description: 'A yellow chocolate wrapper printed in red: a five-pointed star between two flags above a calendar leaf reading ''1941 JAANUAR 12'', and a ribbon with ''KÕIK…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Kõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kompvekipaber-ulemnoukogu-valimised-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kompvekipaber-ulemnoukogu-valimised-1941.jpg) # Kõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper A yellow chocolate wrapper printed in red: a five-pointed star between two flags above a calendar leaf reading '1941 JAANUAR 12', and a ribbon with 'KÕIK NSV LIIDU ÜLEMNÕUKOGU VALIMISTELE!' ('Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet elections!'). The tells are the universal 'everyone' and state emblems printed on an everyday sweet. - **Date:** 1941 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** Ginovker confectionery factory, Tallinn (maker named on the wrapper), carrying the official Soviet election-day slogan (Tallinn, Estonian SSR) - **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia) - **Country:** [Soviet Union](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=soviet-union) - **Medium:** [Object](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=object) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [Soviet Union](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=soviet-union) - **Leader:** [Joseph Stalin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=joseph-stalin) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply) - **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front) - **Event:** [1941 USSR Supreme Soviet Election](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=1941-ussr-supreme-soviet-election) - **Techniques:** [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Regime:** [Soviet Union under Stalin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/soviet-union/) - **Leader:** [Joseph Stalin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/soviet-union/#joseph-stalin) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Tallinn City Museum (Tallinna Linnamuuseum), via MuIS and Europeana](https://www.muis.ee/museaalView/3094662), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** CC0 1.0 (stated by the holding museum on MuIS and Europeana) Tallinna Linnamuuseum, TLM _ 29824:20 Dtg, via MuIS.ee and Europeana (CC0). ## Text on the object Original (Estonian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1941 JAANUAR 12 KÕIK NSV LIIDU ÜLEMNÕUKOGU VALIMISTELE! Gr. t. "OKTOOBER" NATS. A-S GINOVKER TALLINN ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 1941 JANUARY 12 EVERYONE TO THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ELECTIONS! Gr. t. "OCTOBER" NATS. A-S GINOVKER TALLINN ``` Read from a 800 px copy. The two edge lines run vertically along the sides of the wrapper: 'Gr. t. "OKTOOBER"' at left (presumably the product's name, 'October'; 'Gr. t.' is not expanded) and 'NATS. A-S GINOVKER TALLINN' at right. [← Ils assassinent ! Enveloppés dans les plis de notre drapeau (They murder! Wrapped in the folds of our flag)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ils-assassinent-vichy-1941/) ['Daitōa sensō ni kachinukō!!' (Let's win the Greater East Asia War!) fuel-saving poster, Aichi →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-win-greater-east-asia-war-poster-1940s/) ## Using the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [Das ganze Deutschland soll es sein. Haut sie auf den Chassepot! (German broadsheet song and caricature, Franco-Prussian War)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/das-ganze-deutschland-soll-es-sein-chassepot-1870/) (1870 · Bandwagon, Name-calling) - [Boletín nuevo: Noticias importantes (New Bulletin: Important News), Revolución del Parque](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boletin-nuevo-revolucion-del-parque-1890/) (Jul 29, 1890 · Bandwagon, Name-calling) - [¡¡Glorias de México!! Porfirio Díaz y Ramón Corral, electos por el voto unánime del pueblo (Glories of Mexico!! Porfirio Díaz and Ramón Corral, Elected by the Unanimous Vote of the People)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/glorias-de-mexico-diaz-corral-1904/) (1904 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon) - [La vuelta del desterrado (The Return of the Exile)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vuelta-del-desterrado-vanegas-arroyo-1911/) (1911 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon) - [Saludo y felicitación al Señor D. Francisco I. Madero al tomar posesión de la presidencia (Salute and Congratulations to Francisco I. Madero on Taking the Presidency)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/saludo-madero-1911/) (Nov 6, 1911 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon) - [The Menace front page, 12 April 1913 (Aurora, Missouri)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-menace-front-page-1913/) (Apr 12, 1913 · Bandwagon, Scapegoating). Content note: Anti-Catholic newspaper front page with a skull-and-crossbones emblem labelled 'Temporal Power' and claims of a Roman Catholic conspiracy. - [Vote Against Woman Suffrage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/georgia-vote-against-woman-suffrage-1915/) (1915 · Fear appeal, Bandwagon)