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Romania in 1940 with Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina highlighted in orange-red Soviet military parade in Chișinău on July 4, 1940. As Romania agreed to satisfy Soviet territorial demands, the second plan was immediately put into action, with the Red Army immediately moving into Bessarabia and north Bukovina on the morning of 28 June.
Map of Bessarabia. The Bessarabian question, Bessarabian issue or Bessarabian problem (Romanian: Problema basarabeană or chestiunea basarabeană; Russian: Бессарабский вопрос or бессарабская проблема) is the name given to the controversy over the ownership of the geographic region of Bessarabia that began with the annexation of the region by the Russian ...
As a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the Romanian government was forced to accept the Soviet ultimatum of June 26, 1940, and withdrew from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. These regions (as well as the Hertsa region ) were then incorporated into the Soviet Union , most of the former being organized as the Moldavian SSR ...
In the end, a 1944 coup ended with Antonescu's overthrow by King Michael I and Romania changed sides and joined the Allies, giving up Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia to the Soviets "in exchange" for the recovery of Northern Transylvania from Hungary and marking the end of the Bukovina Governorate. [1]
More than 45,000 Jews, likely 60,000, were killed in Bessarabia and Bukovina. Furthermore, until 15 November 1943, between 104,522 and 120,810 Romanian citizens of Jewish ethnicity or descent originating in Bessarabia, Bukovina and the Old Kingdom died in Transnistria as a result of typhus, hunger, cold or straightforward murder. [7]
Article 3 of the Armistice Agreement with Romania [16] (signed in Moscow on September 12, 1944), stipulated that . The Government and High Command of Rumania will ensure to the Soviet and other Allied forces facilities for free movement on Rumanian territory in any direction if required by the military situation, the Rumanian Government and High Command of Rumania giving such movement every ...
However in August of that same year a wave of arrests of the OUN members swept through Bukovina, cutting off local insurgents' ties with the Organization. In 1944 the first units of people's self-defense were created based on the OUN 's formations in Bessarabia and Bukovina – they were named the Bukovinian Ukrainian Self-Defense Army (BUSA).
Bessarabia; Official language . Romanian: Vocea Basarabiei (English: The Voice of Bessarabia) was one of the organized anti-Soviet groups in Bessarabia. Notable members