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
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.
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Royalist campaign for the 1946 Greek monarchy referendum (sponsor not named on the sheet)
- Country
- Kingdom of Greece
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Tsaldaris Government
- Leader
- Konstantinos Tsaldaris
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- 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
ΨΗΦΟΔΕΛΤΙΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Β΄ [on the shirt:] ΚΚ Αυτό τρέμουν.. ..αυτό ψήφισε ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ
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.
