Valeriu Graur (23 December 1940 – 15 September 2012)[1][2][3] was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.
Valeriu Graur | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 23, 1940 |
| Died | 15 September 2012 (aged 71) |
| Citizenship | USSR Moldova Romania |
| Political party | National Patriotic Front |
He was the son of a Romanian officer deported to Siberia. He was born in Reni, in Ukraine, in December 1940, but says he "opened the eyes of the mind" in Siberia, where his family was deported on June 13, 1941.
He is one of the signers of the appeal addressed to Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1972. After denouncing these signatories by Security General Ion Stanescu (chairman of the State Security Council of the SRR.) He was deported for 4 years to Siberia as a result of his belonging to the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.[4]
On August 23, 2010, the acting President of the Republic of Moldova and the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu, gave to Valeriu Graur, together with a group of fighters against the communist totalitarian occupation regime the "Order of the Republic".[5][6][7]
Biography
editBetween 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of a clandestine National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania.
In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, Valeriu Graur as well as Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Alexandru Şoltoianu, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.[8]
Legacy
editThe Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova will study and analyze the 1940-1991 period of the communist regime.
Publications
edit- 2011: "I will not forget you, Bessarabia ..." [9]
References
edit- ^ Valeriu Graur a intrat in panteonul Eroilor Neamului Romanesc
- ^ VALERIU GRAUR…un patriot, un erou, un nume de legendă, un destin zbuciumat, un suflet luminos, un capitol aparte în istoria luptei de rezistență a românilor basarabeni
- ^ S-a stins din viață fostul disident basarabean Valeriu Graur
- ^ Unioniști basarabeni, turnați de Securitate la KGB
- ^ Mihai Ghimpu l-a decorat post-mortem pe fratele sau, Gheorghe Ghimpu
- ^ Decorații pentru anticomuniști
- ^ Ordinul Republicii pentru luptătorii împotriva regimului comunist de ocupație
- ^ Unionişti basarabeni, turnaţi de Securitate la KGB Archived 2009-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Un dizident basarabean trădat de Ceaușescu și-a lansat o carte la București