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Moldovan activist and political prisoner in the former Soviet Union

Alexandru Usatiuc-BulgărOR
Born	1915 Seliște, Russian Empire
Died	2003 Bucharest, Romania
Political party	National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr (1915–2003) was a Moldovan activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.

Biography

Between 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of a clandestine National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, established by several young intellectuals in Chișinău, 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.

On June 12, 1970, while on a private visit in the Socialist Republic of Romania (RSR), he asked to be received in audience by Nicolae Ceaușescu. Failing to be received, he left a 6-page letter addressed to Ceaușescu, in which he presented details about the methods used by the KGB to denationalize the Romanians in Moldova, and about the attempts of the National Patriotic Front to organize their resistance. In his letter he also asked for help from the authorities in Bucharest to avoid the loss of the Romanian identity of Bessarabians. Following an informative note from the head of the Council of State Security of RSR, Ion Stănescu, to the KGB chief Yuri Andropov, in December 1971, Usatiuc-Bulgăr together with Valeriu Graur, Alexandru Șoltoianu, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms and deportation; Usatiuc-Bulgăr received 12 years.

After 1990 Usatiuc-Bulgăr was the president of the Association of Former Political Deportees (Romanian: Asociația foștilor deportați politici).

Legacy

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova 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) ISBN 9975-939-36-8

References

"Cititorii în replică". Magazin Istoric. 1999. Archived from the original on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
"Unioniști basarabeni, turnați de Securitate la KGB". Archived from the original on 2009-04-13.

v t e Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940–1991)
Political entities	Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR Bukovina Governorate Transnistria Governorate
Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania in World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldovan civil unrest Independence
Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcașii lui Ștefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptății Vasile Lupu High School Group Vocea Basarabiei
Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Nicolae Costin Anton Crihan Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Valeriu Gafencu Gheorghe Ghimpu Paul Goma Ion Hadîrcǎ Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Nicolae Lupan Dumitru Matcovschi Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Gherman Pântea Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Isidor Sârbu Grigore Singurel Nichita Smochină Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea
Persecutors	NKVD KGB Militsiya Securitate Nikita Salogor Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin
Organisations, places, events	Literatura și Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Glasul Deșteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

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