69. The orthographic reform of 1945 reduced the number of letters from 32 to 30 by removing two archaic-looking letters from the previous version of Bulgaria's Cyrillic alphabet (which had been first proposed by the Bulgarian historian and philologist Marin Drinov and officially in use since the 1870s). Not only did this change in orthography make Bulgaria's Cyrillic alphabet more similar to the Russian one then used throughout the Soviet Union, but it also allowed the new, Communist-dominated Otechestven Front ("Fatherland Front") government to purge all undesirable literature from every book store and public library. This literary auto-da-fe was, in fact, the first of what Dimitrova decries as the Communist-initiated "linguistic purges in Bulgarian" ("Language and Politics in Bulgaria," 136).
70. Dimitrova, "Language and Politics in Bulgaria," 145.
71. Veselka Venkova, "Iliya Kozhuharov: Demokratizmut e luksozna igrachka pridobita s lisheniya" [Iliya Kozhuharov: Democracy Is a Luxury Obtained through Sacrifice]. Interview with Iliya Kozhuharov, Duma 253, November 6, 2009 (my translation).
72. Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 410.
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