CĂPITAN ANTON CRIHAN – LUPTATOR CONSECVENT PENTRU UNIREA DIN 1918
CAPTAIN ANTON CRIHAN – CONSISTENT FIGHTER FOR THE UNION OF 1918

Summary/Abstract: Captain Anton Crihan, in the Russian Army, took part in battles in the First World War, then participated in the national revival of the Romanian-Moldovan military in the garrisons of Odessa, Herson, Iasi, etc. He calls and prepares the Congress of Moldovan soldiers, sets up and votes for the CountryCouncil, leads the Cohorts (militia detachments) in the fight against Russian deserters and robbers on the territory of Bessarabia and actively collaborates with the Romanian Army for the disobedience of Moldova across the Prut. As a deputy and politician, he participated in the drafting of the Agrarian Reform Law and its implementation, helping the Moldovan peasants. After the end of the Great War and the achievement of the Unification, he studied at Iasi and in France at the Sorbonne. He became a doctor and university professor, head of the department, at the Polytechnic University of Iasi and at the Faculty of Agronomy in Chișinău (1934-1940), and was elected to the Romanian Parliament for five terms. After the occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviets in 1945, he became illegal and fraudulently crossed the Romanian border, taking refuge in Yugoslavia, then in France and the United States of America (USA), promoting the struggle for the national unity of Romanians. Working and living in the USA until the age of 100, he passed away on 9 January 1993 in Saint Louis, Missouri, and was buried in Romania, in Chișinău in 1993.

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