Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Akuhata 1939, i hainatia te Molotov<unk>Ribbentrop Pact me tana kawa taapiri muna, na te Tiamana Nazi i whakaae ko Bessarabia kei roto i te rohe o te mana o Soviet, i arahina ai te whakamutunga ki te whakaora i tana kereme ki te rohe. I te 28 o Hune 1940, i tukuna e te Soviet Union he
ultimatum ki Romania e tono ana kia tukuna atu a 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.