Anatol Petrencu

Anatol Petrencu (born 22 May 1954, Căuşeni) is a politician, historian and academic from the Republic of Moldova.

He did doctoral studies at the Institute of International Economic and Political Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

In 1986 he passed his Masters' thesis with the theme "Romanian-Italian relations in the 70s - the first half of the 80s", and in 1998 he became a PhD in historical sciences with the work "Romania's Policy on Bessarabia, 1940-1944".

[4] Pro-Russian media in Moldova and elsewhere considers Petrencu a Holocaust denier,[5] due to his positive views on Ion Antonescu and his anti-Soviet stance.

[6] Petrencu claims that Antonescu and the Romanian Army liberated Bessarabia from Soviet occupation and that the introduction of the history of the Holocaust as a school subject is a mistake.