Restoration of Soviet administration Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina



soviet operations 19 august 31 december 1944



during first part of 1944, soviet union gradually took on territory through uman–botoșani , jassy-kishinev offensives. on august 23, 1944, soviet troops advancing , eastern front falling within romania s territory, coup led king michael, support opposition politicians , army, deposed antonescu dictatorship, ceased military actions against allies, , later put romania s battered armies on side. in days after coup, romania s action unilateral , no armistice had been agreed allied powers, red army continued treat romanian troops enemy combatants, while in confusion, romanian troops not opposing them. consequence, soviets took large number of romanian troops prisoners of war little or no fight. of prisoners bessarabian-born. michael acquiesced soviet terms, , romania occupied soviet army.


from august 1944 may 1945, ca. 300,000 people conscripted soviet army bessarabia , northern bukovina, , sent fight against germany in lithuania, east prussia, poland, , czechoslovakia. 100,000 killed, while other 100,000 wounded.


in 1947, part of paris peace treaties, romania , soviet union signed border treaty, confirming border fixed in 1940. several additional uninhabited islands in danube delta, snake island, not mentioned in treaty, transferred communist romania soviet union in 1948.








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