Nicolae Cristea (communist)
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Nicolas or Nicolae Cristea (also known under the nom de guerre Joseph Copla;[1] 26 November 1906 – March 1943) was a Romanian communist, a volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and in the French Resistance during World War II.
Cristea was born in a poor workers family in Galați. During the Great Depression he participated in the protests organized by the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest, afterwards being forced by the Siguranța (Romania's secret police) to move back to his native town. He returned to Bucharest in 1931, and in 1933 was admitted into the then-illegal Communist Party. He became member in the Committee of the Bucharest Organization of the Party and, later, he was elected member in the Bureau of the Party Committee of the city. In this period he worked at the Army Pyrotechnics in Bucharest.
After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he left for
In February 1939, Cristea passed into
Arrested by the
Notes
- ^ a b Lucien Steinberg, Jean Marie Fitère. Les Allemands en France: 1940–1944. A. Michel, 1980. p.129
- ^ Philippe Ganier-Raymond, El cartel rojo, Txalaparta, 2008, p. 53
- ^ Philippe Ganier-Raymond, El cartel rojo, Txalaparta, 2008, p. 93
- ^ Victor Stănculescu, Constantin Ucrain. Istoria artileriei române în date. Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1988. p. 130
- ^ Valter Roman. Evocări. p 107
- ^ Nicolae Balint. Un mureșean...
References
- Valter Roman. Evocări. Editura Eminescu. Bucharest, 1980.
- (in Romanian) Nicolae Balint, "Un mureşean în Rezistenţa franceză" ("A Mureş County Resident in the French Resistance"), in Ziarul de Mureş. 5 September 2005.