Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldovan/Romanian: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească; Russian: Молдавская Советская Социалистическая Республика Moldavskaja Sovetskaja Sotsialističeskaja Respublika), commonly abbriviated as the Moldavian SSR or the MSSR, was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.