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in Hoover Institution, Stanford University during my work as a Fulbright researcher, titled
‘SITUATION IN MACEDONIA’ prepared for the Office of Strategic Services, Research
and Analysis Branch, dated March 7, 1945, is said that there is not up to that time a Slavic
Macedonian Alphabet, and the creating of a such was expected. “It is rumored in Skopje,
that Russian linguists will assist in the formulation of a standard Macedonian language. At
present little except newspapers and pamphlets is being printed in Macedonia. Textbooks for
the schools will not be printed until an alphabet has been officially adopted.” The involve-
ment of the Soviet politics in the formation of the new nation was not only rumors. It was in
1934 when the decision of the Comintern was taken for the formation of the Macedonian na-
tion. Nevertheless what the real purpose was, it is understandable, that Soviet Russia needed
friendly Bulgarian nation, but not a too strong and self-confident one.
The hypocrisy of the new regime entered in the everyday life of the people. In April 1946
a Congress of the Macedonian emigrants was held in Sofia. In those times all the institutions
were directed to serve the policy of the Soviet Communism. The decision of Moscow coin-
cided with the one of Belgrade. That is why the Bulgarian one had to coincide too. Accord-
ing to the decisions of the Macedonian Congress: “The emigrants must stress their policy of
solidarity with the Yugoslav peoples to strengthen the Yugoslav Federation; and solidarity
with Slavdom for the strengthening of the Slav idea led by the USSR.”