The countering of the „Moldo-Romanian burgeois nationalism” in the MSSR began immediately after the reoccupation of Bessarabia by the USSR in the Spring of 1944 and occurred in parallel with the inoculation campaign of the „Soviet patriotism” in USSR – which, in fact, as researchers mentioned, was representing a „Russian nationalism” – and, from August 14th 1946 – in parallel with the campaign against the cosmopolitans, considered „a projection of the external enemy”, „agents of imperialism”, with a cleary anti-Semitic tinge. This struggle against the „bourgeois nationalism” aimed at annihilating the legacy of the „Romanian bourgeois” of the Interwar period and the „bourgeois influences” from „capitalist countries”. In the RSSM, unlike in the other Soviet republics, the attacks against „cosmopolitanism” had more of an anti-Romanian than an anti-Semitic character, the victims being, in most cases, graduates of Romanian Universities.