74 years ago in the USSR, the campaign of state anti -Semitism was given. Why today the anti -Semite is attempted with impunity on the life of a famous scientist Vladimir Zetlin. Who else will be beaten to "save Russia" On August 11, 1947, the article by Dmitry Shepilov “Soviet Patriotism” was published in Pravda, which became the beginning of the campaign on charges of cultural figures in cosmopolitanism. It affirmed the unconditional superiority of Russian and Soviet science and technology.