 After the Romanian front was broken at the Battle of Stalingrad, General Lascăr took command of the remains of the Romanian Third Army kept fighting for 4 days.He was taken prisoner on November 22, 1942, spending the years 1943-1945 in captivity in the Soviet Union.On April 12, 1945, Lascăr became commander of the Horia, Cloșca și Crișan Division; the political commissar attached to this Soviet-organized unit was the Communist activist Valter Roman.