First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party
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Communist Party of Moldova
Partidul Comunist al Moldovei |
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| Founded | 1940 |
| Dissolved | August 1991 |
| Preceded by | Moldavia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
| Succeeded by | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova |
| Headquarters | Chişinău |
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Communism Marxism-leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Colours | Red |
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The Communist Party of Moldova (Romanian: Partidul Comunist al Moldovei, PCM; Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Молдавии) was one of the fourteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. During that time, except for the period of Axis occupation in 1941-1944, it was the sole legal political party in the republic. It was outlawed by the government in August 1991, just after Moldova declared its independence.
Perestroika period, that had seen the party increasingly pummeled, was also marked by November riots. The party leader Semion Grossu was remplaced with Petru Lucinschi on November 16, 1989.
After the communist party was legalised again by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on 7 September 1993, the PCM was reborn as the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), which became the largest party in Moldova since the 2001 elections, and the ruling party from 2001-2009. In 2011 a group of communists led by the executive secretary of the old Communist Party of Moldova, Igor Cucer, came to the public attention, claiming that they are the "real communists" and they want to revive the party (PCM) formally; they also stated that the PCRM has become a pseudo-Communist and liberal-bourgeois party serving the interests of one of the county’s richest men, Oleg Voronin, son of president of Moldova from 2001 to 2009 and leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin. Kucher claimed then: "The PCRM's 8-year rule made the poor poorer and the rich richer".
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