Background
Bodiul was born in 1918, in Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, in present-day Ukraine.
Bodiul was born in 1918, in Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, in present-day Ukraine.
Graduated from the Veterinary Academy, 1942, and the Party Higher School of the Central Committee.
In spite of his Moldavian origin, he was a poor speaker of the Romanian language. He was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia, the republic branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 28 May 1961 to 30 December 1980. Bodiul was one of the most authoritarian rulers of Soviet Moldavia.
His main supporters were the 2nd Secretaries of the Communist Party (Yuri Melkov (until 1973), Nikolay Merenishchev (1973-1981), who came from Russia and the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), whose Moldavian chairmen were Ivan Savchenko (until 1966), Piotr Chvertko (1966-1974) and Arkady Ragozin (1974-1979).
In the second part of his rule (from 1976 onwards), the anti-national policy was less harsh, and a relative increase in the economic development of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was obtained. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics from 1980 to May 1985, when he retired from active politics as the reformist Gorbachev era commenced.
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy in 1985. Bodiul was decorated by many Soviet orders and medals, including 4 Orders of Lenin.
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During first part of his rule, his policy concerns and actions were centred on nationalism, sabotage and Zionism.
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A number of dissidents were imprisoned, including members of the Communist Party, while others were punished.
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