"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.

Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

Bandwagon

Date: 1920
Period: Interwar
Made by: Yugoslav side of the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite campaign (no sponsor printed)

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

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
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

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.