 This fact was recognized in the 1920 Treaty of Paris which, however, has never come into force since it was not ratified by Japan.The newly communist Russia did not recognize the Romanian rule over Bessarabia.The Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed on May 5, 1919 in Odessa as a "Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government in exile" and established on May 11, 1919 in Tiraspol as an autonomous part of Russian SFSR.