 After the Communist take-over in 1947, he rose to important positions in the régime's censorship office.Prior to 1965, he published a series of novels — "Domnul general guvernează" ("The General Rules"), "Starea de asediu" ("State of Siege"), "Regele Palaelibus" ("King Palaelibus"), "Salvatorul" ("The Saver"), "Ultimul batalion" ("The Last Battalion") — which constituted a satirical panorama of political life in Greater Romania.Ludo also published translations into Romanian from the Yiddish language writer Scholem Aleichem.