Unie 93 years of Bessarabia with Romania

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Unie 93 years of Bessarabia with Romania

Written by Natascia

Sunday, 27 March 2011 11:06

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Union of Bessarabia with Romania joined in letters of gold in Romanian history. This act ended a historic injustice which started in 1812, the year of invasion of Bessarabia by tsarist Russia . Union of Bessarabia with Romania took place on 9 April 1918 (March 27 Old Style). Of all the Romanian provinces under foreign domination, was the first Bessarabia united with Romania, thus opening great act of reunification and the other Romanian provinces - Bucovina and Transylvania - the mother country. Union effects were abolished on 28 June 1940, when Russia annexed Bessarabia again in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact .

In January 1918, both Romania and the Moldavian Democratic Republic were in an extremely delicate situation. The Romanian government was pressured by the Central Powers to negotiate a humiliating peace, while Bessarabia had to cope with an expansionist Ukraine. In March it became increasingly obvious that the unification of Bessarabia with Romania was the only solution for the young republic, its fate as an independent state is threatened by the annexation of Ukraine's intentions.
In the afternoon of March 27, 1918 Country Hall opened the meeting for the adoption of the union. President Ion Inculet took the floor and Romanian Prime Alexander Marghiloman letter from the Ministry, as representative of the Romanian government. After that, the Romanian representatives withdrew to allow the unhindered pursuit of work. The union was approved with 86 votes for, three against and 36 abstentions. "Moldavian Republic (Bessarabia) - says the statement - within its borders between the Prut River, Black Sea and the old borders with Austria, Russia cut off about a hundred and more years old in the body of Moldova, in the power of history and law right people, based on the principle that the peoples themselves to decide their fate from now on and forever be united with his mother, Romania.
Act of Union of Bessarabia with Romania, elaborated and voted in Chisinau, would be ratified by Decree No. Mamă.Prin country. 842 of April 8, 1918 given to Science, King Ferdinand enacted the Country's vote and thus given to the provinces as enshrined in permanent union with the motherland Romanian. Paris Peace Conference of 1920 recognized the legitimacy of the union of Bessarabia with Romania. Union effects were canceled after 22 years in 1940. In the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Soviet Russia annexed Bessarabia, Northern Bucovina and Herta.

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