Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Muna 1940 miganhu yeRomania yakawanikwa pashure peHondo Yenyika I yakanga yadzimwa zvikuru. Muna July, pashure pechirango cheSoviet, Romania yakabvuma kurega Bessarabia nechokuchamhembe kweBukovina
(maSoviet akabatanidzawo guta reHertsa, iro rakanga risina kutaurwa muhurongwa hwekupedzisira). 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.