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title: 'Ψηφοδέλτιον Βασιλεύς Γεώργιος Β΄ / Αυτό τρέμουν... αυτό ψήφισε ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ (King George II''s ballot: this is what they fear, vote the KING)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vasilea-avto-tremoun-referendum-poster-1946/
description: 'Colour poster: a grinning evzone in traditional dress holds up a ballot paper reading ''Ballot: King George II'' over two figures at his feet, one in a…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of political opponents as a figure marked 'KK' and a green-faced man with a bloodied dagger. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Ψηφοδέλτιον Βασιλεύς Γεώργιος Β΄ / Αυτό τρέμουν... αυτό ψήφισε ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ (King George II's ballot: this is what they fear, vote the KING)

Colour poster: a grinning evzone in traditional dress holds up a ballot paper reading 'Ballot: King George II' over two figures at his feet, one in a shirt marked 'KK', the other green-faced with a bloodied dagger, under the slogan 'This is what they fear... this is what you vote: KING'. The tells: foes shown as marked or dehumanised caricatures, and the national costume lent to the monarchist ballot.

## Text on the object

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

```
ΨΗΦΟΔΕΛΤΙΟΝ
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Β΄

[on the shirt:] ΚΚ

Αυτό
τρέμουν..
..αυτό ψήφισε
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ
```

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

```
BALLOT
KING
GEORGE II

[on the shirt:] KK

This is
what they fear..
..this is what you vote:
KING
```

Read from the 422 x 600 px viewer file. Accent marks are given in modern monotonic form. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Tegyvuoja TSRS tautų broliškoji sąjunga ir nesugriaunamoji draugystė! (Long live the fraternal union of the peoples of the USSR), Lithuanian SSR poster, 1946](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tsrs-tautu-broliskoji-sajunga-lithuanian-ssr-1946/) [Universal-International News title card: 'Eisenhower Says We Must Back Victory' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/universal-news-eisenhower-back-victory-1946/)

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- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
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- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
- [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)