June 28, 1940

[Martin Antonenko]

Stalin takes the loot!


On June 28, 1940, after an ultimatum, strong motorized Red Army forces marched into the Kingdom of Romania ...

... and occupy the eastern part of the country, the so-called Bessarabia with the capital Kishinjow ...:

The Soviets disarm whatever Romanian soldiers are met in Bessarabia ...:



You send ordinary soldiers either home or across the border to Romania - the NKVD "takes care" of officers - as well as all civilians who are cautious or skeptical about the new power ...

Because of course the workers and peasants in Bessarabia now have to consider themselves lucky if they have been freed from the Romanian yoke ...:





**continued next post**

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Part II


"Bessarabia" is the former Moldau principality, which tsarist troops liberated from Ottoman rule in 1877/78 - and which was part of the tsarist empire for a time.

Since Peter I, the tsars had repeatedly stretched out their hands to this corner of Europe - in an earlier attempt by the Russians to acquire this principality (and the principality of Wallachia) ...



... triggered the so-called Crimean War in 1854!

The Soviet Landlord - who never forgot something - put the subject at the top of the list when the secret additional protocol of the German-Russian non-aggression pact was negotiated.The agreement finally gives him free rein!

Here the German ...



... and here the Russian version ...:



The recovery of Besarabia was the main motive of the Romanians under Marshal Ion Antonescu (beside Hitler) in 1941...



... to take part in the attack on the Soviet Union on the German side ...:

Incidentally, the Romanian people (civilians and soldiers) paid a very high price for this revenge policy.

What was still alive from the Romanians on the Eastern Front at the end of 1942 was ground to dust by the Red Army in Stalingrad...:

Antonescu himself was shot on June 1, 1946 at 6:06 p.m. in Fort 13 prison in Jilava (Bucharest) ...:

After the end of the war, Stalin exerted strong pressure on the Western Allies to keep this issue (like the entire Hitler-Stalin Pact) out of all negotiations and the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal - and made Bessarabia a Soviet republic.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, the country became independent as the "Republic of Moldova" - and immediately afterwards two tiny parts of the country split off as further "independent republics":



First, Transnistria, largely inhabited by Russians, on the eastern bank of the Prut River - and a little republiquette called "Gagauzia", which nobody in the West knows.



Although "Gagauzia" formally belongs to Moldova, the Moldavian state has nothing to say there!


The country with its predominantly Turkish-Islamic population has its own armed "security forces", its own "government" - and can rely on a strong ally:

Erdgan's Turkey state.

 

[Airkid]

I see Zhukov and Shtern (old Mongolia rivals) were both involved. I wonder how Gagauzia earns its foreign exchange?

Phil