"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
- Made by
- Yugoslav side of the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite campaign (no sponsor printed)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Leader
- Milenko Vesnic
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Carinthian Plebiscite
- 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), 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
Zmaga je naša! Antantna komisija je določila, da bo plebiscit v pasu B 31. oktobra 1920. Pas A je torej za Nemce izgubljeni.
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.
