some works suggest that this took place in Kishinev prison, NKVD files record his place of death as Tiraspol. Cecan's fate was the subject of confusion in Romania: while some simply noted that he had gone missing, others acknowledged that "somewhere in Bessarabia, under a simple cross", he was "awaiting his resurrection". In August 1941, news of his killing were featured in Universul daily. By September, responding to praise of Cecan in the Greek-Catholic press, Orthodox scholar Grigorie T. Marcu argued that none of the quotes from Cecan showed that he asked for submission to the pope. According to Marcu, Cecan was spuriously reinvented as a Catholic martyr. In the Soviet Union, he was chiefly remembered for his Nazism: in 1988, philosopher Alexandru Babii described Cecan as a "vivid example of the link between clerical anti-communism and German fascism". His fate was only revisited after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, by the authorities of the new Republic of Moldova. On December 21, 2001, its Supreme Court of Justice overturned the Soviet verdict. Notes References 1867 births 1941 deaths Ethnic Romanian politicians of the Bessarabia Governorate Members of the Union of the Russian People Bessarabian Bolsheviks Politicians of the National Socialist Party (Romania) Members of the Iron Guard National Renaissance Front politicians Romanian political candidates Moldovan anti-communists Romanian Christian socialists Anti-fascists Anti-Masonry Romanian columnists Russian-language writers Romanian magazine editors Romanian magazine founders Romanian newspaper editors Romanian newspaper founders Moldovan magazine editors Moldovan magazine founders Moldovan newspaper editors Male journalists Moldovan newspaper founders Russian magazine editors Russian magazine founders Russian newspaper editors Russian newspaper founders Russian propagandists Romanian propagandists Romanian Orthodox priests Russian Eastern Orthodox priests Romanian theologians Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politics Catholic–Eastern Orthodox ecumenism People in Christian ecumenism Schoolteachers from the Russian Empire Moldovan schoolteachers Romanian schoolteachers Philanthropists from the Russian Empire Moldovan philanthropists Romanian philanthropists Temperance activists Romanian agriculturalists 20th-century inventors Romanian inventors People from Khotinsky Uyezd People from Chernivtsi Oblast Romanian people of Moldovan descent National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy alumni Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class Christian chaplains Russian Provisional Government military personnel Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet people of the Ukrainian–Soviet War Moldovan exiles Moldovan expatriates in Ukraine Soviet emigrants to Romania Romanian prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Romania Romanian people of World War II Eastern Orthodox people executed by the Soviet Union Moldovan people executed