Alexandru Șoltoianu

Alexandru Șoltoianu

Born	1934
Ethnicity	Romanian
Citizenship	USSR, Moldova
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Occupation	lecturer
Employer	Moldova State University
Political party	National Patriotic Front
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Alexandru Șoltoianu (born 1934) was a Moldovan 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 lecturer in Oriental studies at the Moldova State University in Chișinău.

In the 1960s and early 1970s he militated for the union of Moldavian SSR with the Socialist Republic of Romania. 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 13 January 1972,^[1] following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Romanian Council of State Security, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, Alexandru Șoltoianu as well as Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Valeriu Graur, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.^[2]

Alexandru Şoltoianu was sentenced in 1972 for his activity as leader of the National Patriotic Front. He was incarcerated in a prison camp in Mordovia, 400 mi (640 km) southeast of Moscow, notorious for its Soviet Gulag.^[3] Gheorghe Ghimpu was incarcerated in the same prison camp.

Alexandru Șoltoianu was released only in January 1986.

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 Șoltoianu: O viaţă sacrificată pentru ţară. 212.p.
Alexandru Șoltoianu: Dosar Penal. În: Memoria-Revista gândirii arestate, numărul 16.

References

↑ Teodor Botnaru, Alexandru Ganenko. Istoria serviciilor secrete. Breviar. Chisinau, Museum Eds., 2004, p.95
↑ Unionişti basarabeni, turnaţi de Securitate la KGB
↑ Patriotul luptător Alexandru Şoltoianu la 75 de ani

Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)

Political entities	Bessarabia Bukovina Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR

Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania during World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldova civil unrest

Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcaşii lui Ştefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptăţii "Vasile Lupu" High School Group Vocea Basarabiei

Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Gheorghe Ghimpu Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea

Persecutors	NKVD KGB Securitate Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin

Organisations, places, events	Literatura şi Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Marea Adunare Naţionalǎ Glasul Deşteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului

1988-1991, people	Nicolae Costin Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Gheorghe Ghimpu Ion Hadîrcǎ Dumitru Matcovschi

The political diaspora	Anton Crihan Paul Goma Nicolae Lupan Grigore Singurel

See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

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