after the annexation of the Moldavian ASSR and Bessarabia (the west and east territory of the Dniester River) to the Soviet Union. The Supreme Soviet also said that the top brass (Stalin and others) set multiple rules for the writers of the lyrics: Mention to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Mention to the "Yugo Liberation" from capitalism. Mention to the development of infrastructure under the Soviets. Mention to the unity of Moldavian people with the rest of the union (something typical in the anthems of the Soviet republics). Mention to the total expulsion of fascists on Moldavian Territory (Soviet victory over Hitler). Rejected lyrics: "It was very melodic and it had some ties with folk music," the musicologist Leonid Răilean said of the anthem. When Stalin died in 1953, during De-Stalinization, the state anthems were muted by Nikita Khrushchev and the Moldovian SSR anthem was simply a long melody during this period, without any official lyrics. In 1977, the Soviet Union adopted a new constitution and replaced the lyrics of the national anthem, and all of its constituent republics followed the same path. Ivan Bodiul, who took over in 1961, was dissatisfied of the long and lyric-less anthem, and decided to make it shorter and simpler, keeping the original idea of the anthem. And, as its author was no longer alive, Ivan Bodiul authorized Eduard Lazarev "to renovate" the anthem. The new composition maintained the music of the verses, added an introduction, an intermezzo, and in the end a variation of the old Chorus. This renovation deformed and damaged the music structure and thus, its sonority. One way or another, in the early 90s, this anthem was "thrown to the garbage dump of history, as well as other signs of the past times". Ștefan Neaga said that he wanted to represent with his work "the creativity and love of Great Stalin, the certainty of the victory of communism, and his desire to give all his forces in this unique case". "I wanted to play in this gratifying music event, to create the symbol of these historic victories, in which the Moldovan people regained their freedom." Lyrics Orthography The Cyrillic script was used officially for the Romanian language (also called Moldovan in Transnistria and by less developed rural regions of Moldova) during Soviet times. However, after 1989, the Romanian language in modern-day Moldova now officially uses the Latin script;