861.01/2273: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 3—11:07 a.m.]
999. Today on the occasion of the third anniversary of the formation of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Eepublic a long article was published in Pravda which closely resembles those published on the anniversary of the entrance of the Baltic States in the Soviet Union (see my 916, July 22, 8 a.m.55). The alleged terrible conditions in Bessarabia before its incorporation into the Moldavian Republic are compared with the prosperity brought to the region by Soviet rule. Greetings are addressed to Stalin and the Red army. The article ends with the words “Moldavia was and will be Soviet.”