Abstract:
The Soviet authorities did not recognize the right of the Romanian population in Bessarabia to unite with Romania. On the occasion of the preparations for the Soviet-Romanian Conference in Vienna, to put pressure on Romania, on February 4, 1924, in Moscow, following the instructions of the Bolshevik leaders, a group of communist emigrants from Romania and Bessarabia wrote a Memorandum on the need to create a Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic on the left bank of the Nistru River. The creation of a such republic had to generate a whole series of domestic and international consequences. It was conceived as a „political-propagandist factor” to create pretexts for the re annexation of Bessarabia, to shake the „unity of Greater Romania” and to serve „as an additional impetus to the tendency of the new provinces to their national self-determination”; „a strategic breakthrough” of the USSR towards the Balkans and Central Europe”; „a beachhead” of Russian political and military interests in the region. The creation of this Moldovan Republic aimed to create a „Moldovan nation”, different from the Romanian one. RSSM evolved, from 1924 to 1940, towards the gradual restriction of the characteristics of a state entity, with a formal autonomy, becoming a common region of Ukraine.
