Valeriu Graur (23 December 1940 – 15 September 2012)[1][2][3] was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.
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 was deported for 4 years to Siberia as a result of his belonging to the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.
[5][6][7] Between 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of a clandestine National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania.
In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, Valeriu Graur as well as Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Alexandru Şoltoianu, and Gheorghe Ghimpu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.