Abstract
The union of Bessarabia and Romania was not acknowledged by the new Bolshevik power in Moscow, and after the failure of the Vienna treaties, the politburo decided to create the Moldavian ASSR, to the east of the Dniester river. The new territorial entity was part of the Ukrainian SSR and practically revealed the antiannexing intentions toward Bessarabia. In this context, with a diversionist purpose, the so-called theory of Moldavianism was set forth; this was an ethno-cultural and linguistic construct that set off the process of denationalization, as well as a real identity war on Romanian language and spirituality on both sides of the Dniester river.