Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Babban fashewar bama-bamai na Allied na Bucharest
ya faru a cikin bazara na 1944, yayin da Sojojin Soviet Red Army suka kusanci iyakokin Romania. Yaƙin don Romania ya fara ne a ƙarshen bazara: yayin da kwamandojin Jamus Johannes Frießner da Otto Wöhler na Army Group Kudancin Ukraine suka yi ƙoƙarin riƙe Bukovina, shugaban Steppe Front na Soviet Rodion Malinovsky ya mamaye yankunan Moldavia da sojojin Petre Dumitrescu suka kare. A matsayin martani, Antonescu ya yi ƙoƙari ya daidaita gaba a kan layin tsakanin Focșani, Nămoloasa da Brăila, zurfin cikin yankin Romania. A ranar 5 ga watan Agusta, ya ziyarci Hitler a karo na karshe a Kętrzyn. A wannan lokacin, shugaban Jamus ya bayyana cewa mutanensa sun ci amanar Nazi, kuma sun tambaye shi ko Romania za ta ci gaba da yaƙi (wanda Antonescu ya ba da amsa a cikin kalmomin da ba a bayyana ba). Bayan Ministan Harkokin Waje na Soviet Vyacheslav Molotov fiye da sau daya ya bayyana cewa Tarayyar Soviet ba za ta buƙaci bautar Romania ba, bangarorin da ke adawa da Antonescu sun yarda cewa lokaci ya yi da za a hambarar da shi, ta hanyar aiwatar da Juyin Mulki na 23 ga Agusta. A wannan ranar, sarki ya nemi Antonescu ya gana da shi a fadar masarauta, inda ya gabatar da shi da bukatar fitar da Romania daga kawancen Axis. "Conducător" ya ƙi, kuma sojoji na masu gadi suka kama shi da sauri, aka maye gurbinsa a matsayin Firayim Minista tare da Janar Constantin Sănătescu, wanda ya shugabanci gwamnatin ƙasa.