in 1937, during the soviet great purge, many intellectuals in the moldavian assr, accused of being enemies of the people, bourgeois nationalist or trotskyist, were removed from their positions and repressed, with a large number of them executed. in 1938 the cyrillic script was again declared official for the moldavian language and the latin script was banned. however, the literary language did not fully return to madan's creation and remained closer to romanian. after 1956, madan's influences were entirely dropped from school books.