In 1940, Moldova passed from Romania to the USSR. Then in June 1941, when the Great Patriotic War broke out, Romania, an ally of Nazi Germany, occupied Moldova.

Photos of Ukrainian refugees fleeing home. ... Hungary, Slovakia, and Moldova. (Among this overall number are more than 300,000 who fled to Russia and Belarus.) Of these, ...

Thirty years after Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union, images from 2021 recapture the exact locations of archival photos taken throughout the country’s Soviet occupation.

Photos: Moldova says Russia meddling ahead of presidential election and EU referendum : ... A class tour of the Military History Museum in Chișinău, Moldova, Oct. 4, 2023.