Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan yakin, Bessarabia ya kasance cikakke cikin Tarayyar Soviet. Yawancin Bessarabia sun zama SSR na Moldavian tare da Chişinău a matsayin babban birninta; ƙananan ɓangarorin Bessarabia sun zama ɓangarorin SSR na Ukraine. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan mamayar Soviet na 1940
, hukumomin Soviet sun kori 'yan siyasa da zamantakewar al'umma. Tsoffin magajin garin Chişinău kamar Teodor Cojocaru da Pantelimon V. Sinadino sun mutu a tsare a kurkukun Soviet. Bayan mamayar Soviet, Capitoline Wolf da Monument ga Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici da Andrei Hodorogea sun lalace a cikin 1940 daga hukumomin Soviet. An tsawata wa ƙungiyoyin anti-Soviet kamar Democratic Agrarian Party, Freedom Party, Vocea Basarabiei sosai.