De la Protocolul adițional secret sovieto-german din august 1939 la anexarea Basarabiei și nordului Bucovinei de către U.R.S.S.
From Pact to Rapt, August 1939-June 1940
Author(s): Vitalie VăratecSubject(s): Diplomatic history, Military history, Political history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Nazi Germany; Soviet-German relations; 1939; 1940;
Summary/Abstract: Setting out, with Nazi Germany, to define their respective spheres of influence and control over Eastern Europe, the Soviet leaders did not forget Bessarabia, which Moscow expressed public claims for during two decades after World War I. Immediately after the negotiations of August-September 1939, the Kremlin began a vast and intensive preparation to annex Romanian territories. This preparation proved necessary only after the Soviet-German Pact of August 1939 was signed, because until then, Moscow, although it had never recognized formally the union of Bessarabia to Romania of March 1918, did not take any large-scale military action to claim it, because she was aware this could trigger a response from western states.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: VII/1999
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 32-41
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Romanian
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