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.
Propaganda techniques used in this object
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ginovker confectionery factory, Tallinn (maker named on the wrapper), carrying the official Soviet election-day slogan (Tallinn, Estonian SSR)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Object
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Home front
- Event
- 1941 USSR Supreme Soviet Election
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Tallinn City Museum (Tallinna Linnamuuseum), via MuIS and Europeana, 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
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.
