Don’t confuse the Russian Empire with the soviets. The ruling class is different, thus the behaviour of the state as well. The Empire expanded to extract wealth

Don’t confuse the Russian Empire with the soviets. The ruling class is different, thus the behaviour of the state as well. The Empire expanded to extract wealth from other territories. The workers that built the 1917 revolution had no such material interests, their interest was only in solidarity with workers in other countries and against imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. Basarabia was subjugated by the kingdom of România in 1918, indeed. The fascists gaining power in România had already started on ethnic cleansing, so Basarabia declared independence and later joined the soviets in 1940. After all, it was the soviets that ended the pogroms in the territories of the former Russian Empire. Don’t let fascists teach you history, they lie.