The National Patriotic Front was a clandestine political party in the Moldovan SSR.

Activity

Between 1969 and 1971, the National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina was established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău

Chisinau

Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

, totalling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic

Moldavian Democratic Republic

The Moldavian Democratic Republic , a.k.a. Moldavian Republic, was the state proclaimed on by Sfatul Ţării of Bessarabia, elected in October-November 1917 in the wake of the February Revolution and disintegration of the political power in the Russian Empire.Sfatul Ţării was its legislative body,...

, its secession from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and union with Romania

Romania

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.

Among the party's members were Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr

Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr

Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr was a Moldovan activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Biography :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 Chişinău, totaling...

, Valeriu Graur

Valeriu Graur

Valeriu Graur was a Moldovan activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Biography :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 Chişinău, totaling over 100...

, Alexandru Şoltoianu

Alexandru Şoltoianu

Alexandru Șoltoianu was a Moldovan 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...

, Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Early life :...

, Nicolae Lupan

Nicolae Lupan

- Biography :In 1958, Lupan became the first editor in chief of TeleRadio-Moldova. He was a member of the National Patriotic Front and lost his job. In March 1974, Lupan went into exile in Belgium. In exile he worked for Radio Free Europe ....

, Tudor Basarabeanu, Nicolae Testemiţeanu, Valeriu Gagiu

Valeriu Gagiu

Valeriu Gagiu was a Soviet and Moldovan film director, producer and screenwriter.- Biography :...

, Mihai Cimpoi

Mihai Cimpoi

Mihai Cimpoi is a Moldovan politician.- Biography :He was a member of the Parliament of Moldova. He is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.- External links :* * -References:...

, Mircea Druc

Mircea Druc

Mircea Druc is a Moldovan and Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Moldova between 26 May 1990 and 22 May 1991....

, Anatol Corobceanu, Vasile Topală.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security

Securitate

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 of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov

Yuri Andropov

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:...

, the chief of KGB

KGB

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, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr

Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr

Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr was a Moldovan activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Biography :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 Chişinău, totaling...

 as well as Valeriu Graur

Valeriu Graur

Valeriu Graur was a Moldovan activist and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Biography :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 Chişinău, totaling over 100...

, Alexandru Şoltoianu

Alexandru Şoltoianu

Alexandru Șoltoianu was a Moldovan 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...

, and Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union.- Early life :...

 were arrested and sentenced in 1972 to 4 to 7 years in prison, followed by forced settlement.

Alexandru Şoltoianu was released only in 1988. Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr was condemned to 7 year in prison and 5 years of forced residence.