Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yuni 1940 Soviet mamaye
na Bessarabia ya same shi a hutu a can; ya zaɓi ya zauna ya zama ɗan ƙasar Soviet. A watan Satumbar 1940 ya fara aiki a Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya a Chişinău, wanda aka tilasta masa gudu a watan Yunin 1941 bayan da Romania ta dawo da lardin. Ya ƙare a yankin Karaganda, kusan shekaru biyu ya kasance malami, darektan makaranta, mai hakar ma'adinai da kuma dan gwagwarmayar jam'iyyar a kan kolkhoz, har sai an tura shi zuwa Moscow a 1943 don ci gaba da karatunsa. Wani memba mai aiki na ƙungiyar 'yan gurguzu na Romaniya a cikin Tarayyar Soviet a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, ya yi aiki a sashin harshen Romaniya na Radio Moscow (1943<unk>1945); ya ba da gudummawa ga TASS da "Graiul liber", jaridar fursunonin Romaniya a cikin Tarayyar Soviet (1943<unk>1946); kuma ya kasance malami a sashin Romaniya na makarantar anti-fascist ga fursunoni (1944<unk>1946), yana jagorantar ta a 1945. Memba ne na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Tarayyar Soviet, ya ɗauki aikin na ƙarshe a matsayin ma'aikacin jam'iyyar, yana taimakawa wajen koyar da fursunonin Romania. Ya kuma yi karatun tattalin arziƙin siyasa a Cibiyar Nazarin Tattalin Arziki ta Plekhanov Moscow daga 1943 zuwa 1946 a kan malanta daga cibiyar Chişinău. Ya kuma koyar a can a shekararsa ta ƙarshe ta karatu, amma bai kammala ba saboda ya bar ƙasar. An dawo da shi zuwa Romania a watan Yunin 1946 bisa bukatar PCR, a hukumance ya shiga jam'iyyar bayan shawarwarin Leonte Răutu da Mihail Roller. Daga Yuni zuwa Nuwamba 1946, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai koyarwa da mataimakin darekta a sashin tattalin arziki na kwamitin tsakiya, yana fara tashi wanda aka taimaka da shi a cikin wani muhimmin matsayi da kuma ilimin da ya samu.