"Mora Dravca vsahniti" plebiscite postcard no. 9 (The Drava Must Dry Up)
A folk-art heart in red, black and grey carries a rhyming vow in first-person Carinthian Slovene dialect: the Drava will dry up and the Black Sea with it before the speaker gives up a Slovene girl. A small 'SHS' monogram marks the state whose side the card takes. The tell is the borrowed peasant voice and ornament, which carry a territorial claim as if it were a village sentiment.
- Date
- 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Narodni svet za Koroško (National Council for Carinthia), Yugoslav side of the Carinthian plebiscite campaign
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Leader
- Milenko Vesnic
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Carinthian Plebiscite
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Library of Carinthia, Ravne na Koroškem (dLib.si, National and University Library, Ljubljana; via Europeana), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark (Europeana/dLib); published 1920, U.S. public domain
Plebiscitna razglednica štev. 9, Narodni svet za Koroško, 1920. Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, via dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-S5156316).
Text on the object
Mora Dravca vsahniti, noj črno morje, prej da bom pustil slovensko dekle ! [monogram in small heart:] SHS
The Drava must dry up, and the Black Sea, before I shall leave a Slovene girl! [monogram in small heart:] SHS (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes)
Dialect forms as printed ('noj' for 'and'). The card number and publisher are taken from the library's catalogue title, not from the printed face. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
