What if the Soviets had made Moldova part of Ukraine, rather than establishing a separate SSR?
What if they had made a Finn SSR? You know, made from the lands they conquered from Finland?
Then upon the formation of the USSR Ukraine should be reorganized as the Ukrainian SFSR, as an equal to the RSFSR and the then-Transcaucasian SFSR. As an SFSR, even if the federalism was notional, it should make it easy for Ukraine to accommodate its ethnic minority populations, of which the Romanians in Moldavia would be one. It would also provide precedent for including new territory in turn into Ukraine, such as Crimea and the Kuban, within an already accommodating framework.What if the Soviets had made Moldova part of Ukraine, rather than establishing a separate SSR?