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title: 'This Is Yugoslavia: One of the United Nations'
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description: A folded information sheet headed 'this is YUGOSLAVIA' combines a country history, captioned photographs of peasants, towns and cathedrals.
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[![This Is Yugoslavia: One of the United Nations, 1944 Yugoslavia poster: A folded information sheet headed 'this is YUGOSLAVIA'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-this-is-yugoslavia-one-of-the-united-nations-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-this-is-yugoslavia-one-of-the-united-nations-1944.jpg)

# This Is Yugoslavia: One of the United Nations

A folded information sheet headed 'this is YUGOSLAVIA' combines a country history, captioned photographs of peasants, towns and cathedrals, and charts of population, production and resources. The tells are card-stacking, in a selection that ends with the resistance under Marshal Tito and carries no unfavourable material, and glittering generalities, in phrases such as 'always fierce lovers of liberty' and 'the admiration of mankind'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
the people  their work  the country

this is
YUGOSLAVIA

Yugoslavia-the country of the South Slavs-is about twice the size of New York State, with a population of 16 millions, composed mainly of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Occupying the western part of the Balkan peninsula, with a long coastline on the Adriatic Sea, Yugoslavia has common boundaries with seven nations: Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Italy. The principal cities are: Belgrade (405,000), the capital; Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Subotica, Split and Skoplje.

[...] Hitler attacked and quickly conquered Yugoslavia in April, 1941, following a popular revolt which overthrew the Cvetkovich government that had signed the Tripartite Pact with the Axis. But the Yugoslavs refused to capitulate and organized a resistance movement whose exploits during the past three years have evoked the admiration of mankind.

The Yugoslav Army of National Liberation under the leadership of Marshal Tito has proven the foremost fighting force within enslaved Europe.

Captions: CROATIAN PEASANT WOMEN AT WORK / SERBIAN SHEPHERD / ZAGREB CATHEDRAL / LJUBLJANA, CENTER OF TOWN, SLOVENIA / HARVEST TIME LUNCH IN SLOVENIA / ON WAY TO MARKET IN DALMATIA / BELOKRAJINA IN SLOVENIA / BELGRADE, CAPITAL OF YUGOSLAVIA / BELGRADE PARLIAMENT / JAJCE, BOSNIA

POPULATION: 16,075,800. [statistics panels on production and natural resources omitted from this transcription; the history text is abridged where marked [...]]

ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

[imprint:] f. c. veit and s. m. adler / Lithographed in the United States of America / ISSUED BY DELEGATE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF YUGOSLAVIA FOR INFORMATION
```

[← 'Rumbo a Tokio' \[Road to Tokyo\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-rumbo-a-tokio-1944/) [Air-raid notice: 'This city is the next target' (US leaflet to Japanese civilians) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/warning-next-target-japan-leaflet-1944/)

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