 Refusing to adapt his style to Socialist realism, Chimet was himself considered a suspect, and lived in extreme poverty during the 1950s.Literary critic Paul Cernat indicated that Chimet was able to evade arrest only because Tonegaru, who had been arrested, did not give in to violent interrogation.Ursu and Baciu were themselves disillusioned with communism after 1949-1950, and broke with the Communist Party around that time.