Vasile Odobescu | |
|---|---|
 From left to right: Ilarion Tautu, Vasile Odobescu, and Alexandru Duca | |
| Born | |
| Died | 1953 |
| Nationality | USSR, Romania |
| Known for | Democratic Agrarian Party founder and leader |
| Children | Maria Filipciuc (Odobescu), Ion Odobescu si Nicolai Odobescu |
Vasile Odobescu (born Cuizăuca) was a founder and leader of the anti-Soviet organization Democratic Agrarian Party. [1] [2]
Vasile Odobescu was born in Cuizăuca, a locality in the north of Moldova. During the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, his parents and his sister were deported from Moldovan SSR (Bessarabia) to Siberia. [3] [4]
In 1950, he founded the Democratic Agrarian Party, one of the largest and best anti-Soviet resistance organizations in rural areas of the Moldovan SSR. [5] The leaders of the party were Vasile Odobescu and Simion Zlatan (born in Popenchi, Rîbnița). The Democratic Agrarian Party was active between the years 1950 and 1953. [2]
In 1953, Odobescu and other important members of the party were arrested; he and 10 members were subsequently sentenced to death that same year. [6]
In a book printed in 2000, the historian Ion Țurcanu wrote the chapter "Vasile Odobescu, a soldier of the disinherited people" (Romanian : Vasile Odobescu, un ostaş al dezmoșteniților). [1]
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