 All the Communist organizations in Bessarabia were supported financially and materially by the Soviets as well as being under their direct control through the special centre in Odessa.Allegedly acting with instructions from the Intelligence Center in Odessa, members organized revolutionary committees in the three counties of southern Bessarabia - Cahul, Ismail and Cetatea Albă.A number of 25 villages and the cities of Cahul and Ismail were subject to these actions, all of them being inhabited mainly by Russians and Ukrainians.