Sfatul Țării (Country Counsel) was the supreme legislative body constituted on the territory of Bessarabia in the autumn of 1917. The official (legitimate) character of the supreme legislative body was not disputed by the politicians of the time, on the contrary – many of them (like Petre Cazacu, for example) substantiated the perfect legitimacy of the Bessarabian Parliament. Over the years, Soviet historians, and after the disappearance of the USSR, some historians engaged in serving foreign interests have written many historical texts in which they questioned the legitimacy of the Sfatul Țării, invoking various “arguments”, such as the lack of representatives from the working class in the Parliament, railway labourers, peasants, etc. The honest, unbiased historians of Romania and the Republic of Moldova (as the given example of the historian Ion Țurcanu) prove with great detail the legitimacy of Sfatul Țării and the decisions approved by it.