Released in June 1945, he went to Izmail, where he joined the anti-Soviet resistance group "Vocea Basarabiei" (English: The Voice of Bessarabia).
He was accused in virtue of Article 58 of the Russian SFSR (on the grounds that the investigation was being carried in Russia, not in Moldova) of "anti-Soviet propaganda, and [being a] traitor of the Soviet people".
The March 1953 amnesty decree after the death of Joseph Stalin saved him from capital punishment by execution squad.
A year later he obtained a transfer to the city of Tyumen to work under guard as painter in the Railroad Club.
His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kyiv, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timișoara, Brașov, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, and Sighetu Marmației.