Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - N'afọ 1939, ihe nzuzo nzuzo nke Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact kenyere Bessarabia na mpaghara mmetụta nke Soviet Union na, na June 1940, ndị Soviet nyere ultimatum na-achọ inyefe Bessarabia na Northern Bukovina. Eze Carol nke Abụọ nke Romania kwetara, e jikọkwara ógbè ahụ ọnụ
Ọ dị mma. 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 onyeisi oche Nikita Khrushchev, onye ndu nke Ukrainian SSR na onye ndu USSR n'ọdịnihu nke ga-agbakwunye Crimea na Ukrainian SSR.