Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr (1915–2003) was a

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n activist and a political prisoner in the former

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Biography

Between 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of a clandestine National Patriotic Front of

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and

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, established by several young intellectuals in

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, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a

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, its secession from the

and union with

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. In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the

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, to

Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (– 9 February 1984) was the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year rule, Andropov served in the po ...

, the chief of the

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, Usatiuc-Bulgăr as well as

Valeriu Graur Valeriu Graur (23 December 1940, in Reni – 15 September 2012, in Bucharest, România) was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova. He was the son of a Romanian officer deported to Siberia. He was ...

Alexandru Șoltoianu Alexandru Șoltoianu (24 August 1933 – 13 April 2022) was a Moldovan orientalist, activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union. Biography He graduated at Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1965 and became a ...

, and

Gheorghe Ghimpu Gheorghe Ghimpu (26 July 1937 – 13 November 2000) was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union and then in Moldova. Early life Ghimpu was born on 26 July 1937 in Colonița, a village in Bessarabia duri ...

were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms. Usatiuc-Bulgăr was condemned to 12 years in prison. He was the president of the Association of former political deportees ( ro, Asociația foștilor deportați politici).

Legacy

The

Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova The Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Totalitarian Regime of the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Comisia pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova) is a commission instituted in Moldova by ...

will study and analyze the 1940-1991 period of the communist regime.

Works

* Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr ''"Cu gîndul la "O lume între două lumi": eroi, martiri, oameni-legendă"'' ("Thinking of 'A World between Two Worlds': Heroes, Martyrs, Legendary People"), Publisher: Lyceum, Orhei (1999)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Usatiuc-Bulgar, Alexandru Romanian people of Moldovan descent Moldovan independence activists 1915 births 2003 deaths National Patriotic Front (Moldova) politicians Moldovan anti-communists