Word: bukovina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Northern Bukovina," cried the Tsarina, "which had never been Russian before...
...firing squads. From a list of 2,000 "war criminals," the Rumanian Government selected a first installment of 100 generals, politicians _ and officials to be tried this week. Heading the list was Rumania's former Dictator and Premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu. When Russia strong-armed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania, ten months after the Moscow-Berlin pact (1939), Marshal Antonescu eagerly clasped Hitler's eagerly proffered hand, was unable to unclasp it in time...
...Restore Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to Russia...
Marshal Zhukov's army, on the Ukrainian right flank, was the first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...