Abstract:
The Soviet authorities did not recognize the right of the Romanian population in Bessarabia to unite with Romania. After the failure in the Soviet-Romanian negotiations in Vienna in March-April 1924 on the issue of Bessarabia and the Bolshevik diversion in Tatarbunar in September 1924, the Stalinist regime decided to create an autonomous Moldavian republic on the left bank of the Dniester. The reason for the creation of this republic was presented by the Soviet authorities concern for the national development of various ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union, but the real reason was in fact the political and ideological one. The creation of this Moldovan republic aimed to create a ,,Moldovan nation", different from the Romanian one, and to provoke a state of tension and political instability at the eastern border of Romania, to prepare the ground for an export of the communist revolution to the other side of the Dniester and southern of the Danube, in other Balkan countries, and to justify a further reannexation of Bessarabia.
