Basarabie nu plânge - (Don’t cry, Bessarabia)

(For English subtitles, turn on YouTube subtitles) ●▬▬▬▬▬✦⋆English⋆✦▬▬▬▬▬● ''Basarabie nu plânge'' is a Romanian patriotic song from Bessarabia region, sung by Aurica Dicușar. Bessarabia was occupied by the Soviets on 28 June, 1940, after in 1939, on 23 August, the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact was signed warning the territories of Greater Romania. Romania, having nowhere to go, agrees to give up most of the territories it won after WWI to avoid a bloody invasion from all sides, a war in which Romania couldn't have won. Meanwhile, in 1941 Romania joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of the Soviet Union with the hope that it would recover Bessarabia lost in 1940, the region being recaptured but for a short period of time. In the end, the war was won by the USSR. Bessarabia under the Soviet occupation became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Romanian la