Communist Party of Moldova

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The Communist Party of Moldova (Romanian: Partidul Comunist al Moldovei; PCM; Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей) was one of the fourteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Indeed, the PCM was the republic-level chapter of the CPSU in the Moldavian SSR from 1940 to 1991. During that time, except for the period of Axis occupation in 1941-1944, it was the sole legal political party in the republic. It was outlawed by the government in August 1991, just after Moldova declared independence.

After the Communist party was legalised again by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on 7 September 1993, the PCM was reborn as the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, which became the ruling party in Moldova since the 2001 elections.

[edit] First Secretaries

Name	From	Until
Pyotr Borodin	15 August 1940	11 February 1942
Nikita Salogor	13 February 1942	5 January 1946
Nikolay Koval	5 January 1946	3 November 1950
Leonid Brezhnev	3 November 1950	16 April 1952
Dmitry Gladky	16 April 1952	7 February 1954
Zinovy Serdyuk	8 February 1954	29 May 1961
Ivan Bodyul	29 May 1961	30 December 1981
Semion Grossu	30 December 1981	16 November 1989
Petru Lucinschi	16 November 1989	4 February 1991
Grigory Yeremy	4 February 1991	August 1991