Ion Moraru
{{Short description|Moldovan activist and author (1929–2019)}}
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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
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.{{in lang|ro}} [http://www.presidency.ro/static/ordine/RAPORT_FINAL_CPADCR.pdf 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}} For one year, Ion Moraru was imprisoned in the same camp at Ekibastuz with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031931/http://www.romanism.net/tag/sabia-dreptatii Organizatia anti-sovietica "Sabia Dreptatii"]}}
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
- Pustiirea, 2005
- Treptele infernului, 2007
Bibliography
- Elena Postică, "Sabia dreptăţii", în Ţara, 1995, 19, 26 ianuarie
References
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External links
- [http://www.flux.md/editii/200918/articole/5946/ Moş Ion de la Mândâc a împlinit 80]
- [http://www.flux.md/articole/131/ Fostul deţinut politic Ion Moraru din satul Mândâc a lansat al doilea volum de memorii]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031931/http://www.romanism.net/tag/sabia-dreptatii Organizatia anti-sovietica "Sabia Dreptatii"]
- [http://2005.rgnpress.ro/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=7117 La Chisinau a fost lansata ieri cartea lui Ion Moraru "Pustiirea"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725032331/http://2005.rgnpress.ro/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=7117 |date=2011-07-25 }}
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Category:People from Drochia District
Category:Popular Front of Moldova politicians
Category:Moldovan anti-communists
Category:Moldovan male writers
Category:Moldovan prisoners and detainees
Category:Soviet prisoners and detainees
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