Valentina Sturza

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Valentina Scafaru-Sturza
Born1929
Known forHead of the Association of former deportees and political detainees
Parent(s)Alexandra Scafaru
Grigore Scafaru

Valentina Scafaru-Sturza (born 1929) is a Moldovan activist. She is the head of the Association of former deportees and political detainees.

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Biography

Valentina Sturza was born in Ciuciuleni to Alexandra Scafaru and Grigore Scafaru. After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, she was loaded in cattle cars and deported to Sverdlovsk.

She is accountant-economist, the chair of the Association of former deportees and political detainees. [1]

She was a candidate of the Party Alliance Our Moldova for July 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election.

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