Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Yunin 1940 Bessarabia ya kasance
Soviet Union ta mamaye shi. Yawancin Bessarabia da kusan rabin MASSR sun haɗu zuwa cikin sabon SSR na Moldavian, wanda ya zama jamhuriya ta goma sha biyar ta Tarayyar Soviet. Bayan shekara guda, a 1941, Romania ta kai wa Tarayyar Soviet hari a matsayin wani ɓangare na Operation Barbarossa kuma ta sake kwace Bessarabia. Tsakanin 1941 da 1944, Romania kuma ta mamaye yankin da ke tsakanin kogin Dniester da Bug (tarihin Transnistria). A shekara ta 1944 Soviets sun sake dawo da dukkan yankunan da suka rasa a 1941, wanda ya kasance a cikin Tarayyar Soviet har zuwa lokacin da aka rushe shi a shekarar 1991.