Partidul Comunist al Moldovei în 1965: de la criză ideologică la război antiromânesc
The Communist Party of Moldova in 1965. From Ideological Crisis to Anti-Romanian War

Summary/Abstract: 1965 marked a seismic moment in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, culminating in the Third Congress of Writers. Here, the cultural elite launched a frontal attack on the Russification policy and publicly demanded the return to the Latin alphabet, a gesture equivalent to an affirmation of Romanian national identity, supported by the symbolic capital of Romania’s autonomous foreign policy. The leader of the Communist Party of Moldova, Ivan Bodiul, stamped this movement as political subversion. The Party’s reaction was an immediate and violent retaliation, materialized in the December 1965 decision to launch an extensive anti-Romanian propaganda campaign. The main consequences were the drastic restriction of publications from Romania and the forced rewriting of MSSR history to consolidate Soviet Moldovenism. Thus, the internal crisis transformed into an ideological war aimed at annihilating national tendencies by labeling them as “Westward orientation” and a total subordination of the local culture to the neo-Stalinist line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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