Two important events—the triumph of Russian arms in evicting the Axis and its satellites from the pre-1939 limits of the USSR and the withdrawal of Romania from the Axis camp on August 23, 1944—focus world-wide attention on the area which, between World War I and World War II made up the Kingdom of Romania. After the ebb and flow of battle, just where does legality stand, and what is the status of these areas?
