Ghiță Moscu

A student of the Iași superior school of commerce until 1910, in 1906 Moscu joined the local socialist România Muncitoare circle,[2] where his older brother, Ilie Moscovici, a future leader of the reformist Romanian Social Democratic Party, was already active.

Moscu represented the socialists of Pașcani at the 1910 Congress reorganizing the Social Democratic Party of Romania, before being drafted in the autumn of the same year, and participating as a soldier in the Second Balkan War.

In 1918 he was arrested in Bucharest by the German military administration and sentenced to four and a half years confinement in Jilava Prison for spreading a manifesto saluting the Russian Revolution.

[2][3] Set free in November 1918, he was arrested again the following month on charges of "attack on public security", after the reinstalled Romanian authorities opened fire on demonstrating workers during a general strike.

In 1929, during the intense factional fights which divided the Romanian Communist Party, Moscu left the Comintern apparatus and, after taking some university courses in commerce, he led the international section of the Soviet National Committee of Standardization.

Temporarily excluded from the Communist Party, Moscu had to leave this position and start working as a consulting editor for the Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR.