FĂURITORI ȘI MARTIRI AI UNIRII BASARABIEI CU ROMÂNIA – LOCOTENENT ȘTEFAN HOLBAN
MAKERS AND MARTYRS OF THE UNION OF BASSARABIA WITH ROMANIA – LIEUTENANT ȘTEFAN HOLBAN

Summary/Abstract: Lieutenant Holban Ștefan actively participates in the national awakening of Moldovan Romanians within the Russian military units, deployed on the fronts of the First World War. They organize rallies, Soldiers' Committees, with a lot of courage they move to Petrograd for approvals from the Kerensky Provisional Government, to organize in Chisinau the General Congress of Moldavian soldiers. Together with other soldiers, he participates in the meetings of the State Council, votes for the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. He is a high school principal, prefect of Lăpușna, deputy in three legislatures in the Romanian Parliament. After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Romania, he goes illegal, works as a laborer, farmer. In 1957, Ștefan Holban is arrested by the Romanian security, on the instructions of the political leaders (Ana Pauker, Teohari Georgescu, Vasile Luca, Alexandru Nicolschi), the criminal file is fabricated and sentenced to 15 years of hard detention, he dies mockingly in prison.

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