Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muna 1940 miganhu yenyika yeRomania yakawanikwa pashure peHondo Yenyika I yakanga yaparadzwa zvikuru. Muna July, pashure pechirango cheSoviet, Romania yakabvuma
kurega Bessarabia uye kuchamhembe kweBukovina (maSoviet akabatanidzawo guta reHertsa, iro rakanga risina kutaurwa mumhedziso). Zvikamu zviviri muzvitatu zveBessarabia zvakabatanidzwa nechikamu chiduku cheSoviet Union kuti zviumbe Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Mamwe ose (kuchamhembe kweBukovina, kuchamhembe kwehafu yeHotin county neBudjak) akagoverwa kuUkraine Soviet Socialist Republic.