Fintyna Alba Incident, also known as Fintyna Alba Massacre

During the civil war in Russia, Romania, taking advantage of the weakness of the young Soviet country, the civil war and the military intervention of 14 states, occupied a territory that never belonged to Romania and was part of the Russian empire under an agreement between Turkey and Russia even at a time when Romania was not even drawn on the map of the world.
    During the entire existence of this territory as part of Romania, the Soviet side never recognized these territories as part of Romania and constantly demanded that stolen land be returned to the Soviet state. Anti-Romanian uprisings and riots such as the Tatarbunar uprising (rum., Mold. Răscoala de la Tatarbunar, Ukr. Tatarbunarske rebel) in 1924, when the fire of the anti-Romanian uprising swept across the whole south of Bessarabia, constantly flared up on this territory.
  And only when the beginning "smelled of fried ass" Romanians without military action returned these lands to the USSR.
 Some families ended up entirely on the territory of the USSR, having received Soviet citizenship, but some families found themselves divided by a new border and refused to relocate. In this regard, many family members tried to cross the border, both with the permission of the Soviet and Romanian border guards, and without this permission. The security of the Soviet-Romanian border was dealt with by the 97th Chernivtsi border detachment of the NKVD, which controlled a site 7.5 km south of Chernivtsi.
   Background of the incident
Through the territory guarded by the 97th border detachment, 471 people illegally crossed the border - natives of the settlements of Hertz, Glybok, Putil and Storozhynets. Of the more distant towns of the Chernivtsi region (Vashkovtsy, Zastavna, Novoselitsa and Sadgor), 628 people crossed the Soviet-Romanian border. It is believed that in the first year of North Sidewall's membership in the USSR, 7,000 people left this territory, leaving for Romania. The Soviet authorities treated such border crossings with caution, but loyally and in accordance with applicable law, demanded paperwork. On January 1, 1941, the 97th border detachment compiled a list of 1,085 people who had crossed the border or planned to cross (another list of December 7, 1940 totaled 1294 people).

On November 19, 1940, 105 people from the village of Suceven, armed with 20 guns, decided to cross the Soviet-Romanian border. When trying to cross, they staged a shootout with Soviet border guards: 3 people were killed, five wounded, two were arrested. Together with the wounded, the surviving citizens moved to the village of Radovtsy in Romania. Cases of illegal border crossing continued: residents of the villages of Mahala, Ostritsa and Gorecha began to cross into Romania and back in January 1941, and on the night of February 6, about 500 people from the villages of Mahala, Kotul-Ostritsa, Buda, Syrovtsy, Gorecha- decided to make a mass transition Urbana and Pinworm. In the morning at 6:00, another skirmish ensued: a group of instigators led by N. Mertikar, N. Nika and N. Isak were killed, about 57 people got into the village, 44 people were arrested and put on trial.
 - April 1, 1941 in the village of Belaya Krinitsa (rum. Fântâna Albă) of the Chernivtsi region of the Ukrainian SSR. According to the Romanian authorities, 3,000 people tried to demand unhindered passage and attempted to cross the state border of the USSR and Romania, were shot by Soviet border guards--
    The Soviet border detachment refused to allow people without appropriate documents to cross the border in response to this in the direction of the border guards was opened weapons of fire.
 Border outpost units were forced to return fire resulting in
44 people were shot dead (17 from Petrovtsy de Jos, 12 from Trestyan, 5 from Kupka and Sucheveni, 3 from Petrovtsy de Sus, 2 from Oprisheni).

    Karapchov: Nikolai Koduban, Kozma Opaits, Georgy Opaits, Vasily Opaits, Kozma Tovarnitsky, Georgy Tovarnitsky, Vasily Tovarnitsky
    Purchase: Ivan Belmega, Ivan Gaza, Arkady Plevan, Mikhail Tsuguy
    Haze: Nikolay Drevaryuk, Peter Kimbru, Vasily Kimbru, Peter Yan
    Sucevens: Dragosh Bostan, Tatyana Lipastyan, George Sidoryak, Konstantin Suchevyan
    Yordanesti: Dmitry Galati, Ivan Galati, Nikolai Galati, Dmitry Opaits, Konstantin Molnar
    Nizhny Petrovtsy: Zakharia Boychu, Ana Theodoran, Georgy Theodoran, Nikolay Theodoran, Fedor Theodoran, Matthew Gavrilyuk, Ivan Patrecianu, Stevan Pavel, Rachel Pozhoga
    Upper Petrovtsy: Konstantin Kuchuryanu, Georgy Motzok, Arkady Ursulyan
    Other villages: Ivan Koblyuk, Pyotr Kostash, Ivan Gudima, Pyotr Palahnyuk
 Conclusion .. We can definitely make a conclusion about the provocative actions of the Romanian intelligence.
All the talk about 3,000 or even 15,000 killed, devoid of common sense, the border outpost did not even have such a huge amount of ammunition.