Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I te marama o Akuhata 1939, i hainatia te Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact me tana kawa taapiri muna, na reira i mohio a Tiamana Nazi ko Bessarabia kei roto i te rohe o te mana o te Soviet, i arahina ai te whakamutunga ki te whakaora i tana kereme ki te rohe. I te 28 o Pipiri 1940, i tukuna e te Soviet Union he ultimatum ki Romania
e tono ana i te wehenga o Bessarabia me Northern Bukovina, i whakaaetia e Romania i te ra i muri mai. I muri tata mai, ka whakapumautia te Republic Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR, MSSR), e tata ana ki te 65% o Bessarabia, me te 50% o te Moldavian ASSR kua whakakorehia inaianei (ko Transnistria inaianei). I wehe atu nga Tiamana iwi i te tau 1940.