 Ursu and Baciu were themselves disillusioned with communism after 1949-1950, and broke with the Communist Party around that time.Chimet was subject to an inquiry for "anti-people activities", and sentenced to work as a lathe operator for a worker cooperative.Soon after, he was moved to what was considered a lower position, that of copy-editor for Centrocoop commercials, an office whose equivalent in capitalist countries was that of copywriter (Chimet was thus one of Romania's first persons to have this job description after World War II).