Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; Moldovan/), i whakaitihia ki te Moldavian ASSR, he kawanatanga motuhake o te Ukrainian SSR i waenga i te 12 o Oketopa 1924 me te 2 o Akuhata 1940, e kapi ana i te rohe o Transnistria (i tenei ra "de jure" i Moldova, engari "de facto" he kawanatanga motuhake; tirohia te mana torangapu o Transnistria). He hanga torangapu maori i whakaaweahia e te kaupapa here a te Bolshevik i roto i te horopaki o te ngaronga o te Bessarabia nui ki Romania i te Paenga-whawha 1918. I roto i taua ara, i ngana te kaiarahi Bolshevik ki te whakaoho i nga kare-a-Rōpū i roto i te Bessarabia me te whaainga ki te whakahoki mai i te aroaro o nga tikanga pai me te hanganga o te geopolitical "place d'armes" (bridgehead) ki te whakatinana i te pakaru i roto i te ara o te Balkan ma te whakaputa i te mana ki runga i te Bessarabia Romanian, ka mutu
i nohoia i te tau 1940 whai muri i te hainatanga o te Tiriti Molotov-Ribbentrop.