The possible invasion of Soviet troops in this province of Bessarabia, which formerly was a part of Russia, hangs over Rumania like a nightmare. This correspondent arrived here to find that ...

WITH the dramatic shift of Soviet foreign policy from an ostensible line of "peace and democracy" to one of territorial aggrandizement the future of Bessarabia becomes again a matter for ...

Red Army soldiers are greeted by children during a military parade on the accession of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the USSR, Chisinau, July 4, 1940. Alexander Gribovsky, Dmitry Chernov/TASS ...

The war against the Soviet Union resulted in the loss of 475,000 Romanian lives. With Moscow’s participation, the Second Vienna Award was annulled and Transylvania was returned to Romania.

The pact also ceded to them portions of Romania known as Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina and this new territory, called Moldova, became the 15th Soviet Socialist Republic.

King Carol II has expected a Soviet invasion of Rumania ever since the Russians took their cut of Poland. Reports from Rumania's border province of Bessarabia indicated that Rumanian troops ...

OPINION Honor the Victims of Communism and Nazism On Black Ribbon Day ...

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and other senior government officials on 24 August took part in solemn celebrations of the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Moldova from the Nazis by the ...

One pact, two dictators Bernd Johann / cd 08/23/2014 August 23, 2014. August 23 marks 75 years since Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union signed the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.