The Archive · 1940

Reported Soviet Demands

The Soviet demands were:

1. The return to Russia of all of Bessarabia, the third largest Rumanian Province, with an area of 16,150 square miles, taken from Russia after the Great War, 2, Russia is to be given the two northern districts of Bukovina Province, with an area of 2,000 square miles, bordering on Russian Poland and once a part of Austro-Hungary.

3, The Soviet is to be given the Black Sea port of Constanza, which is Bucharest's chief outlet to the Black Sea, 4, The naval base at Tulcea, on the north bank of the Danube, near its mouth, is to be given to Russia, 5. Rumania is to turn over to the Soviet Union the Danube port of Giurgiu, 40 miles south of Bucharest, This, would give Russia control of the Danube from the Bulgarian border to the Black Sea, Earlier, authoritative sources reported that Bessdrabia and northern Bukovina Province had been handed Over to the Soviet Union without fighting and with the knowledge of Germany and Italy—United Press.

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