Linia Cominternului în chestiunea Basarabiei. Cu privire la Comisia basarabeană, mijlocul anilor 1920
The Comintern's Line on the Bessarabian Question: Regarding the Bessarabian Commission (Mid-1920s)

Summary/Abstract: After the formation of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within Soviet Ukraine on October 12, 1924, the Ukrainian leadership took over the "Bessarabian dossier" into its own custody. Thus, at the initiative of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, a "Bessarabian commission" was formed within the Comintern. In this commission, the Ukrainian communists had a significant say regarding the destiny of the Romanian province between the Prut and Dniester rivers. Surprisingly, they would face opposition from Romanian communists who had sought refuge in Moscow and were integrated into the Comintern structures, but who had no representative on the "Bessarabian commission." Ultimately, the commission imposed the thesis that Moldovans in Bessarabia represented "a distinct people" from the Romanians, with "a distinct language," who were suffering from Romanian national oppression, and demanded that the Communist Party of Romania (PCdR) support Bessarabia's separation from the Romanian state.

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