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In one year of Soviet occupation (28 June 1940 – 22 June 1941), over 300,000 people, i.e. 12% of the population, were arrested, deported and murdered. [2] Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force. [3]
The Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place between late 1940 and 1951 and were part of Joseph Stalin 's policy of political repression of the potential opposition to the Soviet power (see Population transfer in the Soviet Union ). The deported were typically moved to so-called "special settlements ...
The Soviet occupation of Romania lasted until 1958. The Romanian communist regime did not openly raise the matter of Bessarabia or Northern Bukovina in its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. At least 100,000 people died in a post-war famine in Moldavia.
The Soviet Union, which did not recognize the sovereignty of Romania over Bessarabia since the union of 1918, issued an ultimatum on 28 June 1940 demanding the evacuation of the Romanian military and administration from the territory it contested as well as from the northern part of the Romanian province of Bukovina.
The annexation of Bessarabia and of Northern Bukovina is the direct result of the agreement between Nazi Germany and the USSR encapsulated in the Ribbentrop – Molotov Pact of August 23rd, 1939. The Ribbentrop – Molotov Agreement worsened Romania’s geopolitical standing. There are certain documents which reveal that the USSR planned to impose a mutual assistance treaty on ...
The Union of Bessarabia with Rumania was recognized by the Allied Powers and confirmed by the Paris Treaty on 28 October 1920. However, Bessarabia changed hands yet again in June 1940 when Rumania received a Soviet ultimatum demanding the cession of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. King Carol II was in no position to resist and acceded to the ...
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Bessarabia.7 Here it is worth nothing that the German version of the Pact referred to Romanian “regions” to be ceded to the Soviet Union, whereas the Soviet version named only Bessarabia. The Soviets would subsequently use the German version in June 1940 to make additional requests for Northern Bukovina and Herţa County.
