 The Soviet authors  went into great length to describe scenes how the liberated Bessarabian people eagerly welcomed Soviet troops ending the "22 years of yoke under the Romanian capitalists and landowners", organized demonstrations under red flags and liberated imprisoned communists from the Siguranța torture chambers.During 1940–1989, the Soviet authorities promoted the events of June 28, 1940 as a "liberation", and the day itself was a holiday in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.However, in 2010, the Russian political analyst Leonid Mlechin stated that the term occupation is not adequate, but that "it is more an annexation of a part of the territory of Romania".