 Rudi also questioned his rival's competence, bringing up humiliating anecdotes about Salogor's ministerial tenure.Salogor was demoted to manager of the Moldavian Vegetables' Trust, a position which he would eventually lose on 1 July 1957.Another attempt to obtain the Budjak's annexation was made in 1959 by Artiom Lazarev, the Moldavian Minister of Culture.