The invasion of the Romanian royal troops in Bessarabia led the invaders in early 1918 to overthrow Soviet power in the region and tear it away from the young Soviet republic. The violent and treacherous seizure by bourgeois-landowner Romania of this part of the territory of the Land of the Soviets was carried out with the direct help of the western imperialist powers, the counter-revolutionary and bourgeois-nationalist forces of Bessarabia, the reactionary command of the Romanian Front and the counter-revolutionary Ukrainian Central Council. As a result of such joint actions of international reaction and internal counter-revolution, the Bessarabian question arose, which for the next 22 years remained in the center of attention of the world community.