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title: '"Zmaga je naša!" Carinthian plebiscite leaflet (1920)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zmaga-je-nasa-plebiscite-leaflet-1920/
description: A small text-only leaflet under the headline "Zmaga je naša!" (Victory is ours!) tells readers the Entente commission has set the Zone B vote for 31…
section: Collection
---

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# "Zmaga je naša!" Carinthian plebiscite leaflet (1920)

A small text-only leaflet under the headline "Zmaga je naša!" (Victory is ours!) tells readers the Entente commission has set the Zone B vote for 31 October 1920 and that "Zone A is therefore lost for the Germans". The tell is the announced victory before the vote it concerns, offered as the reason to side with the winner.

- **Date:** 1920
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Yugoslav side of the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite campaign (no sponsor printed)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=kingdom-of-serbs-croats-and-slovenes)
- **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=kingdom-of-serbs-croats-and-slovenes)
- **Leader:** [Milenko Vesnic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=milenko-vesnic)
- **Audience:** [Diaspora or minority](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=diaspora-minority)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [Carinthian Plebiscite](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=carinthian-plebiscite)
- **Techniques:** [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Library of Carinthia, Ravne na Koroškem (dLib.si, National and University Library, Ljubljana)](https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:IMG-921YMQ6Z), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public Domain Mark (Europeana/dLib); published 1920, U.S. public domain Zmaga je naša!, plebiscite leaflet, 1920. Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, via dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-921YMQ6Z).

## Text on the object

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

```
Zmaga
je naša!

Antantna komisija je določila, da bo plebiscit v pasu B 31. oktobra 1920. Pas A je torej za Nemce izgubljeni.
```

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

```
Victory
is ours!

The Entente commission has determined that the plebiscite in zone B will be on 31 October 1920. Zone A is therefore lost for the Germans.
```

"Nemce" is the Slovene word for Germans, used here for German-speaking Carinthians.

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