[citation needed] He was secretary of the PCdR regional party committee in Prahova County during the oil workers' strike in 1933 and arrested during the Căile Ferate Române (CFR) railway works strike in Grivița in February 1933, in which Vasile Roaită was killed.

On June 4, 1934, he was sentenced by the First Corps court-martial under the law to combat crimes against public order to twelve years' imprisonment, which he served in prisons in Jilava, Văcărești, and Craiova.

[1] After Vasilichi managed to escape in January 1935 alongside a group of fellow communists, he emigrated to the Soviet Union and took part in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer in the International Brigades.

He then replaced Miron Constantinescu in a cabinet reshuffle on April 23, 1949, as Minister of Mines and Oil and remained in this post until August 5, 1950.

Vasilichi was also a member of the executive board of the Romanian group at the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) from March 19, 1965, and chairman of the Committee on Health, Labor and Social Security.