Communist Party of Moldova ( Romanian : '' '' , PCM ; Moldovan Cyrillic : Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей ; ) was one of the fifteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 . During that time , except for the period of Axis occupation in 1941 – 1944 , it was the sole legal political party in the republic . Perestroika period , that had seen the party increasingly pummeled , was also marked by November riots . The party leader Semion Grossu was replaced with Petru Lucinschi on November 16 , 1989
November riots
1989 Moldova civil unrest
Communist Party of Moldova