12. janvārī visi pie vēlēšanu urnām (On 12 January, everyone to the ballot boxes), Riga magazine spread on the USSR Supreme Soviet election, 1941
A two-page photomontage in Latvian for the 12 January 1941 election: a shouting worker with a flag over a '12' poster, crowd photographs, a procession with Lenin and Stalin portraits, polling-station decorations and a door-to-door 'propagandist'. The tells are the 'everyone to the ballot boxes' refrain and massed crowds (bandwagon) and a slate named for Stalin (transfer).
- Date
- January 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet authorities in Latvian SSR, election publicity; magazine and publisher not identified on the scan
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of a Latvian-language magazine spread), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons (PD-old-70, anonymous 1941 Latvian work; term expired before 1996, not URAA-restored)
Unknown author, Riga, January 1941, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain per Commons tag).
Text on the object
JANVĀRIS 12 41 Visi uz vēlēšanām 1941.g. JANVĀRIS 12 VISI UZ VĒLĒŠANĀM! 12. janvārī 1941. gadā mūsu deputātu vēlēšanas PSRS Augstākā padomē. Izpildīsim savu Padomju pilsoņa pienākumu un piedalīsimies visi vēlēšanās! 74./1. vēlēšanu iecirknis Pērses ielā 8, tālr. 32821 Iecirkņa sastāvs, kas izvēlēts [illegible, partly covered by a photograph] strādnieku sapulcē: [illegible list of officers] 12. JANVĀRĪ VISI PIE VĒLĒŠANU URNĀM [faint stamp:] OBLIGĀTS KONTROLEKSEMPLĀRS UZ VĒLĒŠANU IECIRKNI PAR STAĻINA KOMŪNISTU UN BEZPARTEJISKĀ BLOKA KANDIDĀTIEM DEPUTĀTU VĒLĒŠANĀS PSRS AUGSTĀKAI PADOMEI JANVĀRIS 12 VĒLĒŠANAS PSRS AUGSTĀKĀ PADOME 1941 [street banner, first and last letters cut off:] [L]ATVIJAS PSR DARBA LAUDIS! CINAITIES PAR JAUNAM UZVARAM RAZOSANA, ATZIMEJIE[T] [VĒ]LESANAS PSRS AUGSTAKA PADOME AR RAZOSANAS-PLANA PIRMSTERMINA IZPILDISAN[U] IECIRKNA VELESANU KOMISIJA Nº 47/21 PSRS AUGSTAKAS PADOMES VELESANAM Vēlēšanu iecirkņa ārpuses greznojums n/u. „Laimā” jaunceltnē Miera ielā. Vēlēšanu propagandists — gaidīts viesis katrā dzīvoklī. IECIRKŅA VĒLĒŠANU KOMISIJA 37/11 PSRS AUGSTĀKAI PADOMES VĒLĒŠANĀM 673. vēlēšanu apgabala 111./38. iecirkņa propagandists iepazīstina N. mājas iedzīvotājus ar Vēlēšanu nolikumu.
JANUARY 12 41 All to the election 1941 JANUARY 12 ALL TO THE ELECTION! On 12 January in 1941 the election of our deputies to the USSR Supreme Soviet. We will fulfil our duty as Soviet citizens and all take part in the election! Election district 74/1 Pērses Street 8, tel. 32821 The district's board, chosen at [illegible] workers' meeting: [illegible list of officers] ON 12 JANUARY EVERYONE TO THE BALLOT BOXES [faint stamp:] OBLIGATORY CONTROL COPY TO THE POLLING DISTRICT FOR THE CANDIDATES OF STALIN'S BLOC OF COMMUNISTS AND NON-PARTY PEOPLE IN THE ELECTION OF DEPUTIES TO THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET JANUARY 12 ELECTION USSR SUPREME SOVIET 1941 [street banner:] WORKING PEOPLE OF THE LATVIAN SSR! FIGHT FOR NEW VICTORIES IN PRODUCTION, MARK THE ELECTION TO THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET WITH EARLY FULFILMENT OF THE PRODUCTION PLAN DISTRICT ELECTION COMMISSION No. 47/21 FOR THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ELECTION Exterior decoration of a polling district at the new building of 'Laima' on Miera Street. The election propagandist: an expected guest in every flat. DISTRICT ELECTION COMMISSION 37/11 FOR THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ELECTION Propagandist of district 111/38 of electoral area 673 introduces the residents of house N to the Election Regulations.
Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. Selected text of the spread, read from a 1280 px scan; street-banner and sign text is printed largely without diacritics and is transcribed as printed, with letters cut off at the image edge in brackets. 'n/u.' and the year form '1941.g.' are read from small type and may be slightly off.
