47. A typical example of the glorification and heroization of Boyko Borisov would be a recently-published collection of poetry entitled "Zvezda ot Vitleem" [Star of Bethlehem] by pro-GERB poetess Veneta Bakalova, in which the following sycophantic ode appears under the title "Premier, izbran ot naroda" [A Premier Chosen by the People]:
"Oh, glorious General, lead us forward!
We trust in your sacred pledge!
Guard us from enemies like the ethnic Turks!
Trail-blaze our difficult path ahead,
So that Bulgaria can take its honorable place
Within the European Union and
Shine like a star in the night sky and
Be greeted and cheered by one and all.
Oh, heavenly tidings! Almighty Jesus Christ,
Bless our beloved General and Bulgaria!" (my translation).
48. Georgi Sapundzhiev, "Faraonut" [The Pharaoh]. Duma 279, December 7, 2009 (my translation).
49. Dimitrova, "Language and Politics in Bulgaria," 141.
50. Victor Klemperer describes a similar phenomenon in post-WWII Germany, where the vestiges of Nazi ideology and propaganda survived in the daily language of Germans: "What a huge number of concepts and feelings [the language of the Third Reich] has corrupted and poisoned! At the so-called evening grammar school organized by the Dresden adult education center, I have observed again and again how the young people in all innocence, and despite a sincere effort to fill the gaps and eliminate the errors in their neglected education, cling to Nazi thought processes. They don't realize they are doing it; the remnants of linguistic usage from the (National-Socialist) era confuse and seduce them. So much is being said at present about eradicating the fascist mentality and so much is being done to that end. But it appears that the language of the Third Reich is to survive in the form of certain characteristic expressions; they have lodged themselves so deep below the surface that they appear to be becoming a permanent feature of the German language. For example, since May 1945 I have on countless occasions, in speeches broadcast on the wireless and passionately anti-fascist demonstrations, heard reference to such things as innate qualities "of character" (characteristischen Eigenschaften) and the "aggressive" (k????mpferischen) nature of democracy." (Victor Klemperer. Lingua Tertii Imperii--The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook. Translated by Martin Brady. London and New Brunswick, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 2000).
51. See Rossen Vassilev, "A Familiar 'New Face' at UNESCO," The American Spectator, October 5, 2009.
52. Orwell, "The Prevention of Literature," 392.
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