was the official language and the use of Romanian was strongly discouraged in Moldova, [Grigore] Vieru fought for the cultural reunification of Moldova and Romania. In the 1970s, he wrote "The Little Bee," Moldova's first Romanian-language school manual for young children."He lived for the Romanian people and for our unity. The way a mother loves a child, that is the way he loved Romania," Razvan Theodorescu, a former Romanian culture minister, said Sunday.
from The Associated Press: Moldovan poet Grigore Vieru dies in car crash
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