Valeriu Graur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valeriu Graur

Political prisoner of the former Soviet Union

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1940

Place of Birth: Reni, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Sep-2012

Profession: politician

Nationality: Moldova

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Valeriu Graur (born 23 December 1940, Reni – 15 September 2012, Bucharest, România) was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova. He was the son of a Romanian officer deported to Siberia.
He was born in Reni, in Ukraine, in December 1940, but says he "opened the eyes of the mind" in Siberia, where his family was deported on June 13, 1941. He is one of the signers of the appeal addressed to Nicolae Ceau?escu in 1972.
After denouncing these signatories by Security General Ion Stanescu (chairman of the State Security Council of the SRR.) He was deported for 4 years to Siberia as a result of his belonging to the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.On August 23, 2010, the acting President of the Republic of Moldova and the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu, gave to Valeriu Graur, together with a group of fighters against the communist totalitarian occupation regime the "Order of the Republic".