Ion Moraru

Ion Moraru
OR
Ion Moraru OR
Born	9 March 1929; Mîndîc
Died	9 October 2019 (aged 90); Bălți
Nationality	USSR,; Moldova
Other names	Mos Ion de la Mândâc
Known for	Sabia Dreptății founder

Ion Moraru (9 March 1929 – 9 October 2019) was a Moldovan activist and author. He was a founder of the anti-Soviet group Sabia Dreptății and a political prisoner in the Soviet Union.

Biography[edit]

Moraru was born in Mîndîc. Ion Moraru and Petre Lungu were the founders of Sabia Dreptății in Bălți. This anti-Soviet armed resistance group was active in Bălți during the Stalinist era. "Sabia Dreptății" was discovered by the NKVD in 1947, based at the Pedagogical Lycée (former Ion Creangă Lycée) in Bălţi.^[1] For one year, Ion Moraru was imprisoned in the same camp at Ekibastuz with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.^[2]

Ion Moraru later became a well-known anti-communist in Bessarabia (now the Republic of Moldova).

He was a member of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova).

Works[edit]

Pustiirea, 2005
Treptele infernului, 2007

Bibliography[edit]

Elena Postică, "Sabia dreptăţii", în Ţara, 1995, 19, 26 ianuarie

References[edit]

^ (in Romanian) Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final / ed.: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Cristian Vasile, București: Humanitas, 2007, 879 pp., ISBN 978-973-50-1836-8
^ Organizatia anti-sovietica "Sabia Dreptatii" Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

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[1] (in Romanian) Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final / ed.: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Cristian Vasile, București: Humanitas, 2007, 879 pp., ISBN 978-973-50-1836-8

[2] Organizatia anti-sovietica "Sabia Dreptatii" Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine

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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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