 Disputes between Hungary and Romania regarding this territory would surface regularly, as both considered the region part of their national heritage.Questions were also periodically raised as to the historical validity of the Soviet-Romanian border.Bukovina and Bessarabia, former Romanian provinces where significant percentages of the population are Romanian-speaking, were part of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to its dissolution, and subsequently part of the (formerly Soviet) states of Ukraine and Moldova.