 The communist party organ "Cultura Proletară" gave "Sub flamura roșie" a poor review, objecting to its depiction of socialist men undone by sheer erotic instinct.This perspective, the reviewers wrote, showed Theodorescu as a "petty bourgeois", unreceptive of revolutionary idealism, but "overly familiar with the world of horse-racing, hags, and prostitutes".Other figures on the left, such as "Contimporanul" editor Ion Vinea, contrarily cherished Theodorescu as an anti-bourgeois from the same ideological family as Vasile Demetrius or Panait Istrati.