Word: bessarabia
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...whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
Regains Transylvania from Hungary but loses Bessarabia to Russia, Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria...
...there were the three real leaders of the Rumanian Communist Party, all able and none of them native Rumanians. The three: Emil Bodnzras (real name Bodnarenko), a Ukrainian from Bessarabia; Laszlo Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania; and Ana Pauker, a German-Jewish Communist whose husband was formerly an official of Amtorg (Russian-American Trading Co.) in Manhattan. The brains of Rumania's Communist Party, Comrade Pauker now lives handsomely in her Bucharest villa...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
...part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles...