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This is a recording of the Romanian National Anthem. 'Deșteaptă-te, române!', which translates to 'Awaken thee, Romanian', was the revolutionary anthem of Romanians during the Revolutions of 1848. Since 1848, it has been used in most Romanian conflicts, including the 1989 anti-Ceaușist revolution.

The anthem was composed by Anton Pann. The anthem itself is a call to action against tyranny and foreign rule. This message has been adapted throughout Romanian history, and has been used to target Ottoman, Russian, Soviet and German occupation.


Lyrics (Poetic English):

Awaken thee, Romanian, wake up from deadly slumber
The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies
And now or never to a bright horizon clamber
That shall to shame put all your enemies.

It's now or never that we prove to the world
That in these veins still flows Roman blood
And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name
Triumphant in battles, the name of Trajan.

Behold, imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus
At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny
With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous
"Live in liberty, or die" that's what they all decree.

Priests, raise the cross, as this army is Christian
Give it liberty and it's sanctified scope
We'd rather die in battle, with honorary glory
Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land.

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