Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'afọ 1939, ihe nzuzo nke Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact kenyere Bessarabia n'ókèala Soviet Union, na June 1940, ndị Soviet nyere iwu ka e nyefee Bessarabia na Northern Bukovina. Eze Carol nke Abụọ nke Romania kwetara, e mechikwara ebe ahụ.
e jikọtara ya na ya. Ebe etiti na ebe ugwu Bessarabia ghọrọ ebe etiti nke Soviet Socialist Republic ọhụrụ nke Moldavia, ma e kenyere akụkụ nke ebe ndịda, nke a maara ugbu a dị ka Budjak, na Ukraine SSR. Kọmitii nke kpebiri ókèala nchịkwa dị n'etiti Ukrainian SSR na Moldavian SSR n'ime Soviet Union bụ onye isi oche Nikita Khrushchev, onye ndu nke Ukrainian SSR na onye ndu USSR n'ọdịnihu nke ga-agbakwunye Crimea na Ukrainian SSR.