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Events on Thursday 4 July 1940 1
1940Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaRomania cedes territory to the Soviet Union under ultimatumAfter a Soviet ultimatum on 26 June, Romania withdrew from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. The Red Army occupied the territories between 28 June and 4 July. Most of Bessarabia became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.