Semion Grossu (born 18 March 1934) is a Moldovan politician and businessman.

Biography

Grossu was born on 18 March 1934 in the commune of Satu-Nou,

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(nowadays

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion (; ) is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. It is part of the historical region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center is the town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the adm ...

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). In 1961, he joined the

Communist Party of Moldavia The Communist Party of Moldavia (, PCM, Moldovan Cyrillic: ; ) was the ruling and sole legal political party of the Moldavian SSR. It was one of the fifteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until ...

. Grossu was the chairman of government of the

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR (, mo-Cyrl, Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ), also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldovan SSR, Soviet Moldavia, Sovie ...

(1 August 1976 – 30 December 1980) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldovan SSR (1 September 1976 – 31 December 1980). He later became First Secretary of the

(30 December 1980 – 16 November 1989). He was the final Moldavian SSR leader to espouse the Soviet party line; his successor,

Petru Lucinschi Petru Lucinschi (; born 27 January 1940) is a former Moldovan politician who was Moldova's second President from 1997 to 2001. He currently serves as the founder and head of the Lucinschi Foundation of Strategic Studies and International Relat ...

, was identified with aspirations for Moldovan independence, which was finally achieved in 1991. Although being the first Soviet leader of Moldova to be fluent in

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, Grossu preferred to speak

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in public during his tenures.Igor CAȘU, "Patterns of succession : Top party elite recruitment in Soviet Moldavia and centre-periphery relations, 1940–1991", ''in'' Li BENNICH-BJÖRKMAN and Saulius GRYBKAUSKAS (dir.), ''Moscow and the non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union : nomenklatura, intelligentsia and centre-periphery relations'', London, Routledge, 2022, p. 84. Since 1991, Semion Grossu has been the chairman of the Russo–Moldovan winemaking firm, Product Impex SRL. In a video posted on

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in 2009, filmed by the Moldovan news source Internet TV, Grossu said he did not consider himself a public figure.

References

Sources

* ''Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească'' ( Chişinău, 1970–1977)

External links

Гроссу Семен Кузьмич
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