MoldovaWorld War II
In June 1941, German and Romanian troops attacked the
Moldavian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR; the Nazis gave
Romania,
their ally, not only Bessarabia and northern Bukovina but
also
the land between the Nistru and Pivdennyy Buh (Yuzhnyy
Bug, in
Russian) rivers, north to Bar in Ukraine, which Romania
named and
administered as Transnistria. This arrangement lasted
until
August 1944, when Soviet forces reoccupied Bessarabia and
Transnistria. A 1947 treaty formally returned Bessarabia,
northern Bukovina, and Transnistria to the Soviet Union,
and the
previous Soviet administrative divisions and Russian
place-names
were reimposed.
Data as of June 1995
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