National Patriotic Front

For the political movement formed at the end of the 1980's, see Popular Front of Moldova.

National Patriotic Front Frontul Naţional Patriotic din Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei
Founder	Alexandru Şoltoianu Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr Valeriu Graur Gheorghe Ghimpu
Founded	1969
Dissolved	December 1971
Headquarters	Chişinău

The National Patriotic Front (Romanian: Frontul Naţional Patriotic din Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei) was a clandestine political party in the Moldovan SSR.

Activity

Between 1969 and 1971, the National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina was established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totalling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania.

Among the party's members were Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Valeriu Graur, Alexandru Şoltoianu, Gheorghe Ghimpu, Nicolae Lupan, Tudor Basarabeanu, Nicolae Testemiţeanu, Valeriu Gagiu, Mihai Cimpoi, Mircea Druc,^{[citation needed]} Anatol Corobceanu, Vasile Topală.

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, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr as well as Valeriu Graur, Alexandru Şoltoianu, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and sentenced in 1972 to 4 to 7 years in prison, followed by forced settlement.

Alexandru Şoltoianu was released only in 1988. Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr was condemned to 7 year in prison and 5 years of forced residence.^[1][2]

Leaders

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  Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr

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  Alexandru Şoltoianu

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  Gheorghe Ghimpu

See too

• List of political parties in Moldova

References

1. ^ Magazin Istoric nr. 12/1999 - Cititorii în replică
2. ^ Unionişti basarabeni, turnaţi de Securitate la KGB

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