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On November 24, 1924, Joseph Stalin noted: "The idea to solve the question of Bessarabia by armed force, simultaneously ceasing any activity against Poland, I think is the best method to produce results in the politics of "gathering Russia" [...] If Bessarabia would be propagandistically prepared for union with Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and if the necessary effort would be applied, the occupation of this province by the Red Army can be achieved with rapidity."[1]
In international legal terms, the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina represented an act of agression.[2]
The premeditated Soviet invasion and occupation unfolded in a complex fashion, in distinct but complementary dimensions: military, ideological, ethno-political, and ethno-cultiural. [3]