Vasile Odobescu (born Cuizăuca) was a founder and leader of the anti-

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organization Democratic Agrarian Party.

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, "Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoşteniţilor", in Moldova antisovietică. Aspecte din lupta basarabenilor împotriva ocupaţiei sovietice. 1944-1953. Ed. Prut Internaţional , colecţia Clio (coordonator,

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, Chişinău, 2000. Editată cu sprijinul Fundaţiei Soros, Moldova

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Vasile Odobescu was born in Cuizăuca, a locality in the north of

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. During the

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, his parents and his sister were deported from

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(

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...

) to

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. In 1950 he founded the Democratic Agrarian Party, one of the largest and best anti-Soviet resistance organizations in rural areas of the

. The leaders of the party were Vasile Odobescu and Simion Zlatan (born in Popenchi,

Rîbnița Rîbnița or Rybnitsa ( ro, Rîbnița or , Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: Рыбница; russian: Ры́бница, ''Rybnitsa''; uk, Ри́бниця, ''Rybnytsia''; yi, ריבניצע, ''Ribnitse'') is a town in Transnistria (''de facto'') in M ...

). The Democratic Agrarian Party was active between 1950 and 1953. In 1953, Vasile Odobescu and other important members of the party were arrested. In 1953, Vasile Odobescu and 10 other party members were sentenced to death.

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De ce trebuie scoasă la lumină rezistenţa anticomunistă?
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Ion Țurcanu Ion Țurcanu (born 15 January 1946) is an author, educator, historian, memoirist, professor, former member of the Parliament (1990–1994), politician and Romanian writer from Moldova. He is one of the 277 MPs of the first parliament of the for ...

wrote the chapter "Vasile Odobescu, a soldier of the disinherited people" ( ro, Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoșteniților).

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, "Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoşteniţilor", in Moldova antisovietică. Aspecte din lupta basarabenilor împotriva ocupaţiei sovietice. 1944–1953. Ed. Prut Internaţional, colecţia Clio (coordonator,

, Chişinău, 2000. Editată cu sprijinul Fundaţiei Soros, Moldova.

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