Ion Moraru

Ion Moraru (born March 9, 1929) is a Moldovan activist and author. He was a founder of the anti-Soviet group Sabia Dreptăţii and a political prisoner in the Soviet Union.

Moraru was born in Mîndîc. Ion Moraru and Petre Lungu were the founders of Sabia Dreptăţii in Bălţi. This anti-Soviet armed resistance group was active in Bălţi during the Stalinist era. "Sabia Dreptăţii" was discovered by the NKVD in 1947, based at the Pedagogical Lycée (former Ion Creangă Lycée) in Bălţi. For one year, Ion Moraru was imprisoned in the same camp at Ekibastuz with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Ion Moraru later became a well-known anti-communist in Bessarabia (now the Republic of Moldova).

He is a member of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova).

• Pustiirea, 2005
• Treptele infernului, 2007