Bessarabia and Romania in 1940. Denouement - Oleg Ayrapetov

Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the hour of truth also came for the ally of Poland, which already does not exist. On September 6, 1939, the Romanian waiter proclaimed: We demand nothing from anyone. We owe nothing to anyone; we will not give anything to anyone. It was necessary to give. In 1925, brigade commander G.I. Kotovsky, who dreamed of returning his native lands, said: Let the Romanians think that they will be able to keep Bessarabia in their hands. We think differently. The Soviet leadership believed in these words. On March 30, 1940, Molotov, in a speech to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, spoke quite clearly about Soviet-Romanian relations. Romania was the only one of the USSR's neighbors in the south with whom Moscow did not connect the non-aggression treaty, and this was a direct result of the actions of Bucharest politicians, including in connection with the occupation of Bessarabia. It is necessary, however, to think that Molotov completed this topic that Romania will understand that such things are intolerable. The Romanian envoy immediately announced this statement to Bucharest.