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title: Români, siliți guvernul vostru (RAF and US Army Air Forces leaflet to Romanians, 1944)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allied-leaflet-romani-siliti-guvernul-vostru-1944/
description: A Romanian-language airdropped sheet that addresses 'Romanians' in large type and twice orders them to 'force your government' to stop obstructing the…
section: Collection
---

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# Români, siliți guvernul vostru (RAF and US Army Air Forces leaflet to Romanians, 1944)

A Romanian-language airdropped sheet that addresses 'Romanians' in large type and twice orders them to 'force your government' to stop obstructing the Russians and to end all aid to Germany, then closes with 'Decide now, before the thunder of the guns drowns your voice'. The tell is the imminent-harm deadline paired with one prescribed remedy; the sheet names its issuers in a printed imprint.

## Text on the object

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

```
ROMÂNI,
SILIȚI GUVERNUL VOSTRU
să ordone armatei voastre să înceteze a sta în calea Rușilor, cari urmăresc și vor distruge armatele germane.
SILIȚI GUVERNUL VOSTRU
să înceteze orice fel de ajutor dat Germaniei și orice fel de act de ostilitate împotriva Națiunilor Unite.
HOTĂRÂȚI-VĂ ACUM
înainte ca bubuitul tunurilor să acopere glasul vostru.

Lansat de Aviația Regală Britanică
și Aviația Armatei Statelor-Unite
C/RA/709
```

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

```
ROMANIANS,
FORCE YOUR GOVERNMENT
to order your army to stop standing in the way of the Russians, who are pursuing and will destroy the German armies.
FORCE YOUR GOVERNMENT
to end every kind of aid given to Germany and every kind of act of hostility against the United Nations.
DECIDE NOW
before the thunder of the guns drowns out your voice.

Dropped by the British Royal Air Force
and the United States Army Air Forces
C/RA/709
```

Front side only. The last letters of 'Statelor-Unite' are partly lost at the right edge of the scan. Machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader of Romanian.

[← '90% of the world's rubber is in Japanese hands: Save rubber' (Australian Army poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/90-percent-of-rubber-in-japanese-hands-australia-1944/) [Aufruf! / Poziv! Männer der Jahrgänge 1914-1926 (call-up in the Adriatic Littoral) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aufruf-poziv-adriatisches-kuestenland-1944/)

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