Dorimedont (Dori) Popovici şi Eusebie Popovici – fruntaşi ai luptei pentru unirea Bucovinei cu Patria Mamă

Abstract

Year 2018 marks the centenary of Great Romania’s forming, and reminds us that spread out Romanian territories were occupied by foreigners for long period of time. Through intense patriotic and diplomatic activities, carried out by great Romanian personalities, in 1918, a part of the occupied territories, successfully united to Motherland, and formed Great Romania: Basarabia on 27th of March, Bucovina on 28th of November and Transilvania on 1st of December. Among Bucovina’s greatest unionist personalities, we remember Iancu Flondor, Dionisie Bejan, Sextil Puscariu, Dorimedont (Dori) Popovici, Eusebie (Euseb) Popovici, and others. Dori Popovici - doctor of law, and Euseb Popovici – PhD in philology, former deputies in Bucovina’s Government, were members of Constituent Assembly, and then of the National Council of Bucovina. They have contributed decisively to convening the National Congress of Bucovina from 28th of November 1918, which decided theunification of Bucovina with Romania.They continued to fulfill important political and state functions within the Romanian State. Eusebie Popovici dies in 1937, and is buried with great honors; but Dori Popovici was a political prisoner, in the beginning of communism’s regime in Romania, incarcerated in the prison from Sighetu Marmatiei, also called “the prison for Romanian elite”, where he dies on the 12th of June 1950, and buried in the poor’s cemetery from Cearda, Sighetu Marmatiei.