Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force. Those regions, wit
Soviet parade in Chișinău, 4 July 1940
A column of Soviet armored vehicles entering Bessarabia, June 1940
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signs the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Behind him are (left) German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
Union of Communist Youth manifesto against the National Renaissance Front and for "avoiding war", put out in Bessarabia in 1940
Ion Antonescu
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Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible f
Portrait, 1941
Antonescu (bottom row, centre) with the other officers of the Section "Operations" of the wartime General Staff (Marele Cartier General), end of March 1918
General Antonescu (left) with Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Căpitan of the Iron Guard, at a skiing event in 1935
Antonescu's official portrait, 1942