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
- 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
- Country
- Romania
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Antonescu Regime
- Leader
- Ion Antonescu
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appealIdentity fusion
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- National Museum of Romanian History, via Culturalia and Europeana, 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
[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.
[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.
