Sabia Dreptăţii

Sabia Dreptăţii
Formation 1945
Extinction 1947
Type anti-Soviet group
Location North of Bessarabia

Sabia Dreptăţii (English: The Sword of Justice) was one of the organized anti-Soviet groups in Bălţi, Bessarabia.

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Overview

Sabia Dreptăţii was initiated by students Petre Lungu and Ion Moraru from Bălţi. This anti-Soviet armed resistance group was active in Bălţi during the Stalinist era. "Sabia Dreptăţii" was discovered by the NKVD in 1947, based at the Pedagogical Lycée (former Ion Creangă Lycée) in Bălţi.[1]

Ion Moraru is well known anti-communist in Bessarabia. For one year, Ion Moraru was imprisoned in the same camp at Ekibastuz with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[2]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ (Romanian) Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final / ed.: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Cristian Vasile, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2007, 879 pp., ISBN 978-973-50-1836-8
  2. ^ Organizatia anti-sovietica “Sabia Dreptatii”

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Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)
Political entities
Events
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact‎ • Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina • Romania during World War II • Political prisoners in Soviet Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina • Fântâna Albă massacre • Tatarka common graves • Deportation of Romanians in the Soviet Union • 13 June 1941 deportation • Operation Yug • Operation North • Bălţi POW camp • Moldavian famine (1946-1947)
Anti-Soviet organizations
Arcaşii lui Ştefan • Bessarabian Revolutionaries Organization • Black Army • Democratic Agrarian Party • Freedom Party • Democratic Union of Freedom • Mişcarea Nordică • National Patriotic Front • Pământenirea • Sabia Dreptăţii • "Vasile Lupu" High School Group • Vocea Basarabiei
Prisoners and dissidents
Victor Andreev • Alexandru Baltagă • Vladimir Bivol • Filimon Bodiu • Olimpiada Bodiu • Gheorghe Briceag • Constantin Condrat • Dumitru Crihan • Ion Codreanu • Alexandru Duca • Gheorghe Ghimpu • Valeriu Graur • Tudor Goncearencu • Pan Halippa • Ion Istrati • Nicole Istrati • Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya • Ion Moraru • Mihai Moraru • Mihai Moroşanu • Vasile Odobescu • Ion Pelivan • Vadim Pirogan • Andrei Sănduţă • Isidor Sârbu • Andrei Stoica • Alexandru Şoltoianu • Ilarion Tǎutu • Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgǎr • Ion Vasilenco • Vasile Vâlcu • Victor Zâmbrea
Passive dissidentism
Loghin Alexeev • Nicolae Anestiade • Vsevolod Anghel • Cemârtan • Corlǎteanu • Ion Druţǎ • Iordache Ionescu • Serafim Saka • Nicolae Testemiţanu • Vasile Vasilache • Grigore Vieru
Persecutors
NKVD • KGB • Securitate • 237th NKVD Regiment • 13th NKVD Division
Organisations, places, events
1988-1991, people
The political diaspora
Bessarabian and Bukovinian refugees • Pro Basarabia şi Bucovina • Anton Crihan • Paul Goma • Nicolae Lupan • Grigore Singurel