Alexandru Șoltoianu

Alexandru Șoltoianu
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Alexandru Șoltoianu OR
Born	24 August 1933; Inești, Romania
Died	13 April 2022 (aged 88); Grădinari, Romania
Citizenship	USSR,; Moldova
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Occupation	lecturer
Employer	Moldova State University
Political party	National Patriotic Front
Awards	Order of the Republic

Alexandru Șoltoianu (24 August 1933^[2]^[3] – 13 April 2022) was a Moldovan orientalist, 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,^[4] following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Romanian Council of State Security, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, Șoltoianu as well as Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Valeriu Graur, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.^[5]

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.^[6] Gheorghe Ghimpu was incarcerated in the same prison camp.

Șoltoianu was released only in January 1986, and he returned to his apartment in Moscow, where he continued to live even after 1991, when Moldova became independent. Nonetheless, he remained active in Romanian nationalist politics. He also joined Mircea Druc's National Council for Reunification. Șoltoianu died on 13 April 2022.

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

^ "Știri /". 24 August 2010.
^ Prepeliță, Mihai (1995). Dialoguri de sânge. ISBN 9789739737326.
^ "Șoltoianu, Alexandru - Registry - Courage – Connecting collections". 22 January 2019.
^ Teodor Botnaru, Alexandru Ganenko. Istoria serviciilor secrete. Breviar. Chisinau, Museum Eds., 2004, p.95
^ Unionişti basarabeni, turnaţi de Securitate la KGB Archived 2009-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Patriotul luptător Alexandru Şoltoianu la 75 de ani

[1] "Știri /". 24 August 2010.

[2] Prepeliță, Mihai (1995). Dialoguri de sânge. ISBN 9789739737326.

[3] "Șoltoianu, Alexandru - Registry - Courage – Connecting collections". 22 January 2019.

[4] Teodor Botnaru, Alexandru Ganenko. Istoria serviciilor secrete. Breviar. Chisinau, Museum Eds., 2004, p.95

[5] Unionişti basarabeni, turnaţi de Securitate la KGB Archived 2009-04-13 at the Wayback Machine

[6] Patriotul luptător Alexandru Şoltoianu la 75 de ani

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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