While generally approving of D. A. Zabarah’s comparative analysis of the linguistic situations in Moldova and in the Serbo-Croatian area, the author makes some clarifying remarks, namely on what is common for them and what differentiates them. He also points out some general factors of the relations between nation, language, glottonym and alphabet, terms which do not always coincide, unlike what often seems to stand to reason. Finally, the inadequacy of Stalin’s theory of nation, involving language problems as well (a work broached among others by D. E. Zabarah), is also shown, characterized as a dogma of little use for solving linguistic (as well as national) problems.