Vasile Odobescu
From left to right: Ilarion Tautu, Vasile Odobescu, and Alexandru Duca
Born
Cuizăuca
Died1953
NationalityUSSR,
Romania
Known forDemocratic Agrarian Party founder and leader
ChildrenMaria Filipciuc(Odobescu), Ion Odobescu si Nicolai Odobescu

Vasile Odobescu (born Cuizăuca) was a founder and leader of the anti-Soviet organization Democratic Agrarian Party.[1][2]

Biography

Vasile Odobescu was born in Cuizăuca, a locality in the north of Moldova. During the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, his parents and his sister were deported from Moldovan SSR (Bessarabia) to Siberia.[3][4]

In 1950 he founded the Democratic Agrarian Party, one of the largest and best anti-Soviet resistance organizations in rural areas of the Moldovan SSR.[5] The leaders of the party were Vasile Odobescu and Simion Zlatan (born in Popenchi, Rîbnița). The Democratic Agrarian Party was active between 1950 and 1953.[2]

In 1953, Vasile Odobescu and other important members of the party were arrested. In 1953, Vasile Odobescu and 10 other party members were sentenced to death.[6]

In a book printed in 2000, the historian Ion Țurcanu wrote the chapter "Vasile Odobescu, a soldier of the disinherited people" (Romanian: Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoșteniților).[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Ion Ţurcanu, "Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoşteniţilor", in Moldova antisovietică. Aspecte din lupta basarabenilor împotriva ocupaţiei sovietice. 1944-1953. Ed. Prut Internaţional , colecţia Clio (coordonator, Ion Negrei, Chişinău, 2000. Editată cu sprijinul Fundaţiei Soros, Moldova
  2. ^ a b "Raportul Comisiei Cojocaru". 5 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Basarabia, foamea din '47 şi deportările". Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  4. ^ "FOAMETEA SI DEPORTARILE IN BASARABIA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  5. ^ "Raportul Comisiei Cojocaru cu cele 14 propuneri. Condamnarea regimului bolsevic de ocupatie ar putea fi urmata de cererea de despagubiri de la succesoarea URSS, Federatia Rusa. DOCUMENT ISTORIC - Victor Roncea Blog". roncea.ro.
  6. ^ Timpul de dimineaţă, Elena Postică, De ce trebuie scoasă la lumină rezistenţa anticomunistă?

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Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940–1991)
Soviet dissidents
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