--- title: Proclamation 'Građani grada Zagreba!' by Boris Buzančić calling for volunteers to the National Protection units (Zagreb, 1991) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zagreb-buzancic-proglas-national-protection-1991/ description: Framed typeset proclamation headed PROGLAS with the red-white chequerboard shield at the upper right and the line 'GRAĐANI GRADA ZAGREBA!' in large type. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Proclamation 'Građani grada Zagreba!' by Boris Buzančić calling [![Proclamation 'Građani grada Zagreba!' by Boris Buzančić, 1991 Croatia document: Framed typeset proclamation headed PROGLAS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zagreb-buzancic-proglas-national-protection-1991.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zagreb-buzancic-proglas-national-protection-1991.jpg) # Proclamation 'Građani grada Zagreba!' by Boris Buzančić calling for volunteers to the National Protection units (Zagreb, 1991) Framed typeset proclamation headed PROGLAS with the red-white chequerboard shield at the upper right and the line 'GRAĐANI GRADA ZAGREBA!' in large type. It tells residents that the homeland 'is in peril', asks all who have not yet done so to enrol in volunteer National Protection units at their local community offices, and ends 'Sve za Hrvatsku - svi za Hrvatsku' (All for Croatia - all for Croatia). The tells are the 'in peril' framing and the appeal to join 'the multitude of resolute defenders', which presents enrolment as what everyone is already doing. ## Propaganda techniques used in this document [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Full record Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights ## Text on the object Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PROGLAS GRAĐANI GRADA ZAGREBA! Obraćam vam se kao vaš gradonačelnik i predsjednik Vijeća Narodne zaštite Grada Zagreba. Dragi građani, naša je domovina – Republika Hrvatska – u pogibelji. Stoga vas pozivam da se svi vi, koji to još niste učinili, prijavite u dobrovoljačke jedinice Narodne zaštite. Upisivanje u jedinice Narodne zaštite obavlja se u prostorijama mjesnih zajednica. Izvršimo svi svoju najvišu dužnost: pridružimo se mnoštvu odlučnih branitelja Domovine! Sve za Hrvatsku – svi za Hrvatsku PREDSJEDNIK SKUPŠTINE GRADA ZAGREBA I PREDSJEDNIK VIJEĆA NARODNE ZAŠTITE GRADA ZAGREBA Boris Buzančić ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` PROCLAMATION CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF ZAGREB! I address you as your mayor and as president of the Council of National Protection of the City of Zagreb. Dear citizens, our homeland - the Republic of Croatia - is in peril. I therefore call on all of you who have not yet done so to enrol in the volunteer units of National Protection. Enrolment in the National Protection units is done at the premises of the local communities. Let us all do our highest duty: let us join the multitude of resolute defenders of the Homeland! All for Croatia - everyone for Croatia PRESIDENT OF THE ZAGREB CITY ASSEMBLY AND PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE CITY OF ZAGREB Boris Buzančić (Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.) ``` Read from a 500 px photograph of a framed copy; line breaks inside paragraphs not kept. [← Yugoslav People's Army leaflet 'Ustaški zlikovci!' calling on Croatian forces to surrender (Dubrovnik area, 1991)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yugoslav-army-leaflet-ustasha-criminals-surrender-1991/) [Baghdad communique and RCC-Ba'th statement, 17 January 1991 (FBIS translation) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-communique-3-fbis-1991/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal, Ad hominem, Straw man) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)