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title: Românii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/romanian-german-leaflet-bessarabia-1941/
description: A two-sided slip, Romanian on one side and Russian on the other, that tells Bessarabian and Bukovinian Romanians and 'peaceful minorities' they have…
section: Collection
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[![Românii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/romanian-german-leaflet-bessarabia-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/romanian-german-leaflet-bessarabia-1941.jpg)

# Românii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides)

A two-sided slip, Romanian on one side and Russian on the other, that tells Bessarabian and Bukovinian Romanians and 'peaceful minorities' they have nothing to fear from the Romanian and German armies, but 'woe to the traitors of the nation'. The reassurance is paired in one sentence with a threat aimed at anyone classed as a traitor, and treason is defined by the nation itself.

- **Date:** 1941
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Romanian and German forces, per the holding museum's description; no issuer or imprint is printed on the sheet
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Romania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=romania)
- **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Antonescu Regime](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=antonescu-regime)
- **Leader:** [Ion Antonescu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=ion-antonescu)
- **Audience:** [Enemy civilians](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=enemy-civilians)
- **Purpose:** [Reassure](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=reassure)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [National Museum of Romanian History, via Culturalia and Europeana](https://culturalia.ro/entities/0a1de5ec-29b9-421f-b603-fbf0e69852a9/view), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY-SA 4.0 (stated by the holding museum on Europeana); anonymous 1941 leaflet National Museum of Romanian History, inventory 64567, via Culturalia / Europeana (CC BY-SA 4.0); the image joins the museum's scans of both sides.

## Text on the object

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

```
[Romanian side]
Românii basarabeni,
Bucovinenii
și minoritarii pașnici
n'au de ce să se teamă
de armata română și
germană;
dar vai de trădătorii
neamului!

[Russian side]
РУМЫНЫ
бессарабцы и буковинцы
и мирные меньшинства,
не должны бояться
румынской и германской армий
но горе предателям нации.
```

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

```
[Romanian side]
Bessarabian Romanians,
Bukovinians
and peaceful minorities
have nothing to fear
from the Romanian and
German army;
but woe to the traitors
of the nation!

[Russian side]
ROMANIANS,
Bessarabians and Bukovinians
and peaceful minorities
should not fear
the Romanian and German armies,
but woe to the traitors of the nation.
```

The Romanian text is printed in heavy display type, with faint show-through of the Russian text on the reverse; both sides are one leaflet. The museum's accession number '64.567' is handwritten on a label on the Russian side and is not part of the printed text.

[← Ils assassinent ! Enveloppés dans les plis de notre drapeau (They murder! Wrapped in the folds of our flag)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ils-assassinent-vichy-1941/) [V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941/)

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