Controversy over the annexation of Bessarabia

Why is it said that the Soviets stole Bessarabia from Romania at the beginning of World War II, when the Romanians themselves invaded took that land from the Russians in 1918? Prior to that, Bessarabia had been part of the Russian Empire since 1812 and the people of the region were not ethnically Romanian. So, why, again, do people say that the Soviets stole Bessarabia from Romania?

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