Word: bessarabia
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...failed to hold out behind the broad, free-flowing Dnieper. What chance did he have of making a stand behind the frozen Bug? The Dniester, alone, now some 100 miles behind the front, offered a potential line of defense. But the Dniester's right bank is in Bessarabia, and the echo of Russian gunfire there would echo throughout the Balkans...
Bulgars could see the point, even when it was made by an unreconstructed Communist. Russia was their traditional protector, their only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...
...sore issue of Russia's border states-Finland's Karelia, the Baltics, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia-has been specifically discussed before, if not at Teheran. Russia has agreed to submit the status of the Baltics-Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania-to public referendums after the war. Russia is very sure that the peoples of those countries will vote for their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
...newly captured city of Zhitomir lay midway between Stalingrad, where the Germans stood a year ago, and Berlin; Zhitomir was only 125 miles from Bessarabia, 60 miles from prewar Poland. In the north, the front line lay only 50 to 150 miles from Russia's pre-1939 borders...
...liberated and restored to independence. But nothing indicated that Russia proposes to give up the territory taken from eastern Poland in 1939. And it was evident that Stalin, in Moscow's aftermath, expected to preserve his western borders intact, with Finland's Karelia, the Baltic states and Bessarabia incorporated as Soviet territory...