Control over the press in the Moldavian SSR was always relatively subtle but strict. For decades, Glavlit’s employees, who sat together with journalists (since 1967, he was located in the main building of journalists - Dome pechati) carefully tracked all those who contradicted Soviet morality, divulging state secrets, and especially military secrets, as well as political and “nationalist” deviations from the requirements party seal The most scandalous publications were discussed at the meetings of the highest leadership of the republic. This article is devoted to how the Bureau of the Communist Party of Ukraine monitored the content of Moldovan newspapers in the 1960s-1980s. And what measures did it take to prevent all unwanted “deviations from the party line”.