 On September 12, 1944, Romania signed the Moscow Armistice with the Allies.The Armistice, as well as the subsequent peace treaty of 1947, confirmed the Soviet-Romanian border as it was on January 1, 1941.Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and Hertza remained part of the Soviet Union until the latter was dissolved in 1991; those regions then became part of the newly-independent states of Moldova and Ukraine.