 For example, cooperation with the OSTK in the city soviets led deputies in Tiraspol, Bendery, and Rȋbniţa to suspend the introduction of the language laws and deputies in Tiraspol and Rȋbniţa to agree to a referendum on the creation of a Transnistrian autonomous republic.Once the strike was over, however, communist leaders attempted rollback these concessions.The republican communist party leaders in Chişinău were especially keen to see this happen and put pressure on local communists to repeal "illegal" decisions taken during the strike.