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Lina Ciobanu (born 22 March 1929) was a Romanian
Lina Ciobanu (born 22 March 1929) was a Romanian communist
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politician.
Ciobanu was born in Potcoava
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, a town in Olt County
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, the daughter of Gheorghe Năstase and Maria, née Gheorghe. In 1946 she moved to Bucharest
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, where she worked at a printing house and then at a textile factory, and married Ion Ciobanu. From 1957 to 1960 she was trained by the Romanian Communist Party
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(PCR) at the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy
The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy (Romanian: ''Academia Ștefan Gheorghiu'', in full: ''Academia de învățămînt social-politic Ștefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR'' — roughly, ''Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-Political Education ...
and in 1965 she graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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. In 1965 she became an alternate member of the Central Committee of the PCR, and from 1969 to 1989 she was a full member of the committee.
Ciobanu served as Minister of Light Industry from 1975 to 1987, and became a Member of the Politburo in 1977. From 1985 to 1989 she served as deputy for Pașcani
Pașcani () is a city in Iași County in the Western Moldavia region of Romania, on the Siret river. , it has a population of 30,766. Five villages are administered by the city: Blăgești, Boșteni, Gâstești, Lunca, and Sodomeni.
The city der ...
in the Great National Assembly and from 1987 to 1989 she was Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. Her awards included the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic
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, 4th class; the , 1st class; and the , 4th class.
In January 1990, right after the Romanian Revolution
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of December 1989, she was arrested. In April 1992 she was sentenced to 16 years for complicity in aggravated murder and to suppress the Revolution. Shortly after, she suffered from a stroke; in November 1996, she was pardoned by then-President
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Ion Iliescu
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, as he was about to leave office.
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