Ion Codreanu (parliamentary)
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Ion Stepanovici Codreanu (April 14, 1879, Ştefăneşti, Floreşti
, Soroca County
- February 15, 1949, Bucharest
) was a Moldova
n politician.
. Soon after, he was elected as a member of the Moldovan Parliament
.
After the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia
in 1940, he became a political prisoner in USSR, but in May 1941, he was exchanged for the Communist Ana Pauker
.
Ştefăneşti, Floreşti
Ştefăneşti is a commune in Floreşti district, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Ştefăneşti and Prodăneştii Vechi....
, Soroca County
Soroca County
Soroca was a county of Moldova. The seat was Soroca....
- February 15, 1949, Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
) was a Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
n politician.
Biography
In 1917, Codreanu was a founding member of the National Moldavian PartyNational Moldavian Party
-History:Prior to 1917, Bessarabian intelligentsia was divided between noblemen, conservatives, democrats, and socialists. Vasile Stroescu, a rich but very modest filantop boyar, managed to persuade all major factions to leave internal fights and at four day meeting the National Moldavian Party...
. Soon after, he was elected as a member of the Moldovan Parliament
Sfatul Tarii
Sfatul Țării was, in 1917-1918, the National Assembly of the Governorate of Bessarabia of the disintegrating Russian Empire, which proclaimed the independent Moldavian Democratic Republic in December 1917, and then union with Romania in April 1918.-Russian participation in World War I:In August...
.
After the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia
Bessarabia
Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
in 1940, he became a political prisoner in USSR, but in May 1941, he was exchanged for the Communist Ana Pauker
Ana Pauker
Ana Pauker was a Romanian communist leader and served as the country's foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
.