In a meeting in October, Associate Chair of the Presidium of the Moldovan Supreme Soviet, Victor Puşcaş, in the presence of Communist Party First Secretary, Semion Grossu, berated local communists for losing control of the situation in Transnistria.
Semion Grossu was born on March 18, 1934, in Satul Nou, Sarata district, in what is now Ukraine, In 1961, he joined the Communist Party.