Valeriu Graur

Valeriu Graur
OR
Born(1940-12-23)December 23, 1940
Reni, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died15 September 2012(2012-09-15) (aged 71)
Bucharest, România
CitizenshipUSSR
Moldova
Romania
Political partyNational Patriotic Front

Valeriu Graur (23 December 1940 – 15 September 2012)[1][2][3] was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.

He was the son of a Romanian officer deported to Siberia. He was born in Reni, in Ukraine, in December 1940, but says he "opened the eyes of the mind" in Siberia, where his family was deported on June 13, 1941.

He is one of the signers of the appeal addressed to Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1972. After denouncing these signatories by Security General Ion Stanescu (chairman of the State Security Council of the SRR.) He was deported for 4 years to Siberia as a result of his belonging to the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.[4]

On August 23, 2010, the acting President of the Republic of Moldova and the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu, gave to Valeriu Graur, together with a group of fighters against the communist totalitarian occupation regime the "Order of the Republic".[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Valeriu Graur a intrat in panteonul Eroilor Neamului Romanesc
  2. ^ VALERIU GRAUR…un patriot, un erou, un nume de legendă, un destin zbuciumat, un suflet luminos, un capitol aparte în istoria luptei de rezistență a românilor basarabeni
  3. ^ S-a stins din viață fostul disident basarabean Valeriu Graur
  4. ^ Unioniști basarabeni, turnați de Securitate la KGB
  5. ^ Mihai Ghimpu l-a decorat post-mortem pe fratele sau, Gheorghe Ghimpu
  6. ^ Decorații pentru anticomuniști
  7. ^ Ordinul Republicii pentru luptătorii împotriva regimului comunist de ocupație