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.
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces, per the printed imprint (code C/RA/709)
- Region
- Transnational or online
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- National Museum of Romanian History, via Clasate (CIMEC) and Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (stated by the holding museum on Europeana and Clasate); 1944 airdropped leaflet
National Museum of Romanian History, Clasate record bb12e0735d8c404e8c1b0e3414c69625, via Europeana (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Text on the object
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
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.
