rather than specifically Bolshevik. Historian Mitru Ghițiu proposes that any Moldovan resistance to communism was casually silenced by Soviet writers: "the issue was never even up for discussion, with authorities fearing that any glimpse of the truth could bring into question the Romanian's 'boundless joy' at being 'liberated' by the Bolsheviks." Soviet authors ignored all talk of contributions by the Whites and their Committee for the Salvation of Bessarabia. This connection had already been brought up in 1919 by Major McLaren. In their interviews with Romanian officials, both he and Gachikevich dismissed all accounts of Bolshevik agitation. During their stay in Khotyn, McLaren and Boxhall had resided with the Krupenskys. According to Stănescu, this was an additional proof of continuity between Russian loyalism and the rebels of 1919, over a shared agenda of "keeping these territories inside Russia, even if it were a Soviet Russia". Researchers of various backgrounds, including Șornikov and Ludmila Rotari, have returned focus on the rebellion's connection with Russian monarchism. According to Șornikov, the Whites and the communists had maintained the exact same policy on the Bessarabian question, seeing Khotyn as an integral component of Russia. Zhurari had unwittingly served Romanian interests by relocating to Tiraspol, instead of forming his unit in Bessarabia itself, but as Șornikov notes, had later built his force into one highly threatening for the Romanian grip on Bessarabia. Notes References 1919 in Romania 1919 in Ukraine Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) 1919 riots Peasant revolts Conflicts in 1919 20th-century rebellions Rebellions in Romania Rebellions in Ukraine Battles involving Romania Battles of the Ukrainian–Soviet War Massacres in Romania Massacres of Ukrainians Greater Romania History of Bessarabia Ukrainian irredentism Romania–Ukraine relations History of Chernivtsi Oblast Podolia Governorate History of the Cossacks in Ukraine Republicanism in the Kingdom of Romania Communism in Romania Ukrainian People's Republic White movement Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Aftermath of World War I in Romania