 This notion is partly backed by historian Ruslan Șevcenco, who argues that Moldavian Ukrainians in the PCM's leadership made sure to ignore Salogor's proposal.While Coval remained "cowardly and egotistical" when it came to reporting on the Moldavian famine of 1946, Salogor documented its impact in his letters to Anastas Mikoyan, the Minister of Foreign Trade.Though such texts proposed massive reductions in the grain quotas that the Moldavian SSR owed to Moscow, Cașu notes that they most likely played no part in Salogor's downfall.