Ivan Bodiul

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Ivan Bodiul

First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party
In office 28 May 1961 – 30 December 1980
Premier	Alexandru Diordiţă Petru Pascari Semion Grossu
Preceded by	Zinovie Serdiuk
Succeeded by	Semion Grossu
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 19 December 1980 – 30 May 1985
Preceded by	Alexey Antonov
Succeeded by	Boris Shcherbina
Personal details
Born	3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast
Died	27 January 2013(2013-01-27) (aged 95) Moscow, Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Moldova
Spouse(s)	Claudia

Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul (3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] – 27 January 2013) was a Moldovan SSR politician.

Biography

Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was born in 1918, in Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. In spite of his Moldavian origin, he was a poor speaker of the Romanian language.

Ivan Bodiul was the First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party (28 May 1961 - 30 December 1980). Bodiul was one of the most authoritarian rulers of Soviet Moldavia. During first part of his rule, his policy concerns and actions were centred on nationalism, sabotage and Zionism. A number of dissidents were imprisoned, including members of the Communist Party, while others were punished. His main supporters were the 2nd Secretaries of the Communist Party (Yuri Melkov (until 1973), Nikolay Merenishchev (1973-1981), who came from Russia and the KGB, whose chairmen were Ivan Savchenko (until 1966), Piotr Chvertko (1966-1974) and Arkady Ragozin (1974-1979). Bodiul continued the fight for atheism, during which many of the churches were closed or destroyed. In the second part of his rule (from 1976 onwards), the antinational policy was less harsh, and a relative increase in economical development of the Moldavian SSR was obtained. Bodiul was also known as one of the most loyal followers of Leonid Brezhnev.

After spending a few years as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-1985), he retired in May 1985. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy (1985). His daughters, Svetlana and Natalia Bodiul, live in Italy.

In December 1976, Ivan Bodiul and his wife Claudia were the first high-level Moldovan visitors to Romania since World War II. At one of his meetings in Bucharest, Bodiul said that "the good relationship was initiated by Ceauşescu's visit to Soviet Moldova, which led to the expansion of contacts and exchanges in all fields." In August 1976, Bodiul met Ceauşescu and his wife at the frontier and escorted them to Chişinău.^[1] Bodiul was decorated by many Soviet orders and medals, including 4 Orders of Lenin.

References

↑ Moore, Patrick (24 September 1979). "Romanian-Moldavian SSR Relations". Radio Free Europe. Retrieved 12 December 2010.

*** - Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească (Chişinău, 1970-1977)

External links

(Russian) Биография
(Russian) Кто есть кто в Правительствах СССР

Party political offices
Preceded by Zinovie Serdiuk	First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party 28 May 1961 – 30 December 1980	Succeeded by Semion Grossu

v t e Leaders of Moldova

Moldavian Republic	Ion Inculeț

Moldavian SSR	Piotr Borodin Nikita Salogor (acting) Nicolae Coval Leonid Brezhnev Dimitri Gladki Zinovie Serdiuk Ivan Bodiul Semion Grossu Petru Lucinschi Grigore Eremei

Republic of Moldova	Mircea Snegur Petru Lucinschi Vladimir Voronin Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vlad Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti

Persondata
Name	Bodiul, Ivan
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	January 3, 1918
Place of birth	Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date of death	January 27, 2013
Place of death	Moscow

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