Ion Vasilenco was among the few post-war Bessarabian intellectuals that took position for in support of classical values in the space between Prut and Dniester, a subject that was taboo at that time. Promptly, he also supported the necessity of creating a new orthography, one that would correspond to academic rigors and facilitate its assimilation by the masses. Opposing the chaos of the illiterate 1945 orthography, he supported the reestablishing of fundamental principles of classic traditional orthography, militated for the return to the Latin alphabet, and for this reason he was terrorized and persecuted by the totalitarian communist regime. The writer suffered even more after he published an article about Constantin Stere (on January 17, 1963). The authorities declared him insane, he was forcefully interned in the Costiujeni psycho-neurological hospital and fired, because of „invalidity”, with a pension of 47 rubles and 50 kop. Eliminated from public life and terrorized, the unhappy I. Vasilenco, in the morning of March 13, 1977, lied down before a train, close to Visterniceni station, leaving behind the name of a martyr, important papers and articles, highly appreciated by readers.