The death of Stalin was a turning point, which opened an outlet for the accumulation of many years of discontent on national and religious grounds. “Suddenly” began to arise various claims to the policies of the authorities, which, in the recent past, would have been impossible to imagine. Residents began to demand an increase in the social status of Moldavians and their language, as well as the church. The authorities of the republic, not receiving clear instructions on what to do, tried to avoid too conflict situations at this stage (with some exceptions). Meanwhile, the discontent of part of the population with their meager diet, which had to be defended daily in battle, was gaining wider scope and encompassing all new spheres of life and activity of Soviet people. The USSR framework was already close to some, and they tried to complain about the unrest in the country to international organizations. Dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs affected even prisons, the inhabitants of which, as it turned out, thought quite in accordance with the spirit of the times. Changes in society have ripened. But their implementation was a matter of the future.