Content note: Drawn scenes of shootings, bodies, explosions and starving people, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Σοσιαλδημοκρατία: Μερικοί που ζητούν την ψήφο σου σ' εκυβέρνησαν (Social democracy: some who ask for your vote have ruled you)

Colour poster headed 'SOCIAL DEMOCRACY' with a drawn scene of explosions, shooting, bodies, queues and a crouching starving figure, around a cloud of words: revolutions, riots, slaughter, murders, betrayals, lies, thefts, anarchy, fear, hunger, misery. A scroll says some who ask for your vote governed you 2 to 3 years and alone are to blame for today's misery. The tell: one word is stretched to carry every listed evil.

Date: 1946
Period: Cold War
Made by: Unnamed election poster printed in Greece for the 1946 campaign (sponsor not stated on the sheet or in ELIA's record)
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Kingdom of Greece
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Sofoulis Government
Leader: Themistoklis Sofoulis
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: Elections and party politics, Economy and finance
Event: Greek Legislative Election 1946
Techniques: Semantic hijacking Scapegoating
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA-MIET) via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: CC BY 4.0 (rights statement in ELIA's Europeana record, via SearchCulture.gr)
Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA-MIET), Athens, via Europeana and SearchCulture.gr, CC BY 4.0

Text on the object

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

ΣΟΣΙΑΛΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ

ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ
ΑΝΑΤΙΝΑΞΕΙΣ
ΣΦΑΓΕΣ
ΑΙΜΑΤΑ
ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΙΕΣ
ΠΡΟΔΟΣΙΕΣ
ΥΠΟΣΧΕΣΕΙΣ
ΨΕΜΜΑΤΑ
ΣΠΑΤΑΛΕΣ
ΚΛΟΠΕΣ
ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΑ
ΑΝΑΡΧΙΑ
ΑΤΙΜΩΡΗΣΙΑ
ΦΟΒΟΣ
ΟΥΡΕΣ
ΔΕΛΤΙΟ
ΠΛΗΘΩΡΙΣΜΟΣ
ΠΕΙΝΑ
ΔΥΣΤΥΧΙΑ
ΠΑΧΕΙΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ
ΣΟΣΙΑΛΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΑΙ [sic, as read]
ΦΤΩΧΕΙΑ   Κ.Λ.Π.

ΜΕΡΙΚΟΙ ΠΟΥ ΖΗΤΟΥΝ ΤΗΝ ΨΗΦΟ ΣΟΥ Σ' ΕΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΑΝ ΤΑ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ 2-3 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ. ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ ΔΥΣΤΥΧΙΑ [illegible]ΤΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΜΟΝΟΝ ΕΥΘΥΝΟΝΤΑΙ. Μ[illegible] ΠΑΧΕΙΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ ΕΛΠΙΖΟΥΝ ΟΤΙ [illegible] ΓΕΛΑΣΟΥΝ ΠΑΛΙ. ΠΡΟΣΕΧΕ[illegible]

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

REVOLUTIONS
RIOTS
SLAUGHTER
BLOOD
MURDERS
BETRAYALS
PROMISES
LIES
SWINDLES
THEFTS
MOVEMENTS
ANARCHY
IMPUNITY
FEAR
QUEUES
COUPON
INFLATION
HUNGER
MISERY
FAT WORDS
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY [as read]
POVERTY   ETC.

SOME WHO ASK FOR YOUR VOTE RULED YOU THE LAST 2-3 YEARS. FOR TODAY'S MISERY [illegible] AND ONLY THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE. [illegible] FAT WORDS THEY HOPE [illegible] WILL FOOL YOU AGAIN. BEWARE[illegible]

Read from the 422 x 600 px viewer file at 2x enlargement; parts of the scroll are covered by the baked-in watermark. The big diagonal word near the bottom is read as a form of 'social democracy' and may be a variant ending. 'Κ.Λ.Π.' (etc.) is as printed. Accents in modern monotonic form. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.