Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Nhaka yaIon Creangă yaivewo inonzwisisika muSoviet Union, uye kunyanya muMoldovan SSR (iyo, sechikamu chikuru cheBessarabia, yakanga iri chikamu cheGreater Romania pakati pehondo, uye yakazove yakazvimiririra Moldova). Pakutanga, zvinyorwa zvake, zvainzi "Nhau dzeMoldavia", zvaiva chikamu chepurogiramu yechikoro yeSoviet muMoldova Autonomous Region (Transnistria). Pashure pokunge Soviet yapinda muBessarabia
, Creangă aiva mumwe wevanyori vanotaura chiRomania vane mabasa akanga achiri kubvumirwa kubudiswa nezviremera zvitsva. Izvi zvakapa vanyori vemunharaunda yezvinyorwa zveRomania kusangana nemhando dzekare dzetsika, vachinyatsokurudzira zvidimbu zvekuyedza kana zvePostmodern prose naVlad Ioviță naLeo Butnaru. Kubvumidzwa kwechimiro cheveruzhinji cheCreangă mukati meMoldovan SSR kwakaratidzirwawo muhunyanzvi: muna 1958, chimiro chemunyori, basa remupendi Lev Averbruh, rakapihwa kuAlley of Classics muChișinău. Mabasa ake akaratidzwa nomumwe weMoldova SSR's kutungamirira mifananidzo vemifananidzo, Igor Vieru, uyo akavezawo mufananidzo womunyori. Muna 1967, Ioviță uye mugadziri wemufirimu Gheorghe Vodă vakaburitsa "Se caută un paznic": shanduko ye "Ivan Turbincă" uye imwe yemasampuli akabudirira ekutanga mafirimu eMoldova, yaizivikanwawo nemimhanzi, yakanyorwa naEugen Doga. Uyewo munguva iyoyo, "The Goat..." uye "The Purse a 'Tuppence" yakaitwa mavhidhiyo mapfupi (akatungamirirwa naAnton Mater naConstantin Condrea). Muna 1978, shanduro yeopera ye "Mbudzi neVana Vayo Vatatu" yakagadzirwa nemunyori Zlata Tkach, zvichibva pane libretto naGrigore Vieru.