In June, Romania became a participant in Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. Vinea was again drafted in the army (mostly stationed on the Black Sea coast), and assigned editor of "Evenimentul Zilei", a propaganda daily published by Șeicaru, while also working at Șeicaru's "Curentul". He was followed there by one of his "Facla" subordinates and a close friend, Vlaicu Bârna. According to the latter, "Evenimentul Zilei" existed as a "somewhat democratic version" of the pro-fascist "Curentul". His activity over the next three years became a subject for scholarly scrutiny and political disputes. In the 1970s, Vinea biographer Elena Zaharia-Filipaș argued that Vinea largely remained "his own man", who refused to publish "eulogies to tyranny and murder as one finds in the aggressive editorials of other official newspapers published during the epoch." Vinea himself claimed that he "sabotaged" war propaganda and censorship. However, according to literary historian Cornel Ungureanu, he had transformed himself "into an ace of official politics".