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title: 'VI Aprile: Sveglia per le coscienze che dormono. Votate la Lista Nazionale (Fascist election poster, 1924)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vi-aprile-sveglia-lista-nazionale-1924/
description: Black-and-white poster of a young man in a Blackshirt-style uniform, breeches and puttees, blowing a bugle beside a fasces.
section: Collection
---

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[![VI Aprile: Sveglia per le coscienze che dormono. Votate la Lista Nazionale (Fascist election poster, 1924)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vi-aprile-sveglia-lista-nazionale-1924.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vi-aprile-sveglia-lista-nazionale-1924.png)

# VI Aprile: Sveglia per le coscienze che dormono. Votate la Lista Nazionale (Fascist election poster, 1924)

Black-and-white poster of a young man in a Blackshirt-style uniform, breeches and puttees, blowing a bugle beside a fasces. The text reads 'VI Aprile, sveglia per le coscienze che dormono: votate la Lista Nazionale'. A military reveille and the Roman fasces lend a camp-bugle and state-authority air to a vote, and 'consciences' is appealed to without saying what they should find.

## Text on the object

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

```
VI APRILE
SVEGLIA
per le
coscienze
che
dormono
VOTATE LA LISTA NAZIONALE

[signature, lower left:] stop
```

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

```
SIXTH OF APRIL
REVEILLE
for the
consciences
that
sleep
VOTE THE NATIONAL LIST

[signature:] stop
```

'Sveglia' is both the military wake-up call (reveille) and the imperative 'wake up'; the translation gives the first sense. The small signature is read as 'stop' and may be a pseudonym.

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