The Political-Territorial Division of Bessarabia in 1940
The Political-Territorial Division of Bessarabia in 1940

Summary/Abstract: In the evening of June 26, 1940, the minister of Romania to Moscow, Gh. Davidescu, and soon afterwards the whole world learned about the Soviet ultimatum note “proposing” to the government in Bucharest “to hand back Bessarabia to the Soviet Union”, plus “the Northern part of Bukovina”. Three days later, on June 29, the TASS news agency announced that the day before “the Soviet units crossed the Romanian border [our italics] on the entire space of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia”, occupying the cities of Cernăuți, Hotin, Soroca, Bălți, Kishinev, Bender (Tighina), Akkerman (Cetatea Albă). In the following days the Soviet troops took over the localities of Storojineț, Noua Suliță, Lipcani, Herța, Bolgrad, Reni. On July 3, the eastern and north-eastern part of Romania, snatched away in Moscow using a red pencil on the map that had been enclosed in the ultimatum note, was totally incorporated in the Soviet Union.

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