50 Lei Constantin Stere

Constantin Stere was a Romanian-Bessarabian writer and political thinker whose biography was fractured by ideology — exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist authorities in his youth for socialist agitation, he later shifted toward a peasant-based nationalism that put him at odds with nearly every faction he had once aligned with. His collaboration with German occupiers during World War I permanently damaged his standing in Romania proper, yet in post-Soviet Moldova his rehabilitation came relatively quickly, tied to a broader reassertion of Bessarabian cultural identity distinct from both Russian and Romanian state narratives.