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title: Frați Români, Bucurați-vă! (Romanian Brethren, Rejoice!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/frati-romani-leaflet-brasov-1916/
description: Text leaflet in a red, yellow and blue tricolour border, addressed to Romanians living under Hungarian rule on Romania's entry into the war, telling them…
section: Collection
---

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# Frați Români, Bucurați-vă! (Romanian Brethren, Rejoice!)

Text leaflet in a red, yellow and blue tricolour border, addressed to Romanians living under Hungarian rule on Romania's entry into the war, telling them the 'hour of your deliverance' has come and to leave the Austro-Hungarian army. The tells: a coalition roll-call ('Alongside England, France, Italy and Russia') and 'Victory awaits us' stand in for any terms, and virtue words ('a free people, master of its own land', 'Greater Romania') carry the appeal.

## Text on the object

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

```
Frați Români,

Bucurați-vă!
România a intrat [illegible] război.
Alături de Anglia, Franța, Italia și Rusia ea a pornit ca să vă desrobească de jugul unguresc.
Ceasul mântuirii voastre a sunat.
Visul nostru de veacuri se va împlini.
De acum s'a sfârșit cu prigonirile. Veți putea vorbi limba voastră în liniște, vă veți putea neturburați închina în bisericile voastre. Veți fi un popor liber stăpân pe pământul lui.
Împreună cu Românii din Regat și cu cei din Bucovina nu veți mai fi decât un singur suflet, o singură țară.
Din această zi locul vostru nu mai e în armata Austro-Ungară.
Părăsiți rândurile ei.
Veniți sub tricolorul român.
Veniți fără întârziere să luptăm cu toții la olaltă pentru fericirea voastră și a noastră.
Veniți să înfăptui[illegible] România Mare.
Biruința ne așteaptă.

Trăiască Neamul Româ[illegible, sheet torn]
```

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

```
Romanian brethren,

Rejoice!
Romania has entered [illegible] war.
Alongside England, France, Italy and Russia she has set out to free you from the Hungarian yoke.
The hour of your deliverance has struck.
Our dream of centuries will be fulfilled.
From now on the persecutions are over. You will be able to speak your language in peace, you will be able to worship undisturbed in your churches. You will be a free people, master of its own land.
Together with the Romanians of the Kingdom and those of Bukovina you will be no more than a single soul, a single country.
From this day your place is no longer in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Leave its ranks.
Come under the Romanian tricolour.
Come without delay, that we may fight all together for your happiness and ours.
Come, that we may bring about Greater Romania.
Victory awaits us.

Long live the Romanian nation [text cut off]
```

Read from the committed image; words covered by stains are marked [illegible], and the gaps were not filled from the Commons description's English paraphrase. The border and the missing end of the last line follow the torn paper. Spelling follows the sheet (for example 'desrobească', 's'a'). Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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