After securing his position in a bloody confrontation with the Iron Guard , Antonescu involved Romania in the war against the Soviet Union . Antisemitic measures and the clampdown on dissident activities reached a peak . Ailing from heart disease and noticeably poor , Moscovici was threatened with imminent eviction from his Bucharest home in Vatra Luminoasă , and had to move in with friends . As noted by his daughter Mira , the signal for this persecution was an article in the fascist newspaper '' Porunca Vremii '' . Against the family 's protests , the house was listed for rent by the Romanianization bureau , which had barred Jews from placing bids . When Moscovici presented his certificate of service in World War I , guaranteeing him special treatment , the officials objected that he was not a war invalid . Moscovici was also prevented from cashing into his Journalists ' Union pension , owing to his racial origins . He was advised to seek an interview with Antonescu , but he rejected the idea outright . Although exposed to such persecution , Moscovici had remained cautious of the Soviet Union , and informed himself about its crimes . His young friend Belu Zilber , at the time involved with the clandestine PCdR , recalls a brush with the anticommunist Moscovici some time after the Battle of Stalingrad . According to Zilber , Moscovici shouted at him that : " those Katyn people are coming , and they 're going to kill you ! " . In summer 1943 , with Petrescu , Moscovici also wrote a note to the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre , detailing the " treason " of Flueraș and Grigorovici
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