Why did they leave out context in this article? I can't even see any political motivation...
The reform was being worked on years before the Revolution by imperial linguists. The first draft was done in 1904 and it was all but implemented in the early 1917. It was basically optimising orphography by throwing out unnecessary stuff and making the language more phonetic. As bolsheviks sought to rapidly eradicate illiteracy, it was perfect because reformed this way it was, naturally, a bit easier to learn, so they just finalized it's implementation.
But muh wholesome churchslavic! Muh yat! Ebil Bolsheviks destroying muh traditions!
I don't even know what do they mean when they say ''gommies destroying muh tradition muh values!!''
What do they even mean by that, what values?
Slavery. In this or that form the conslib values always boils down to slavery when stripped to the core.
The same shit is said all the time about simplified chinese. The problem with language and writing being too complicated was ongoing theme for most of their history, but it really became huge issue after republic was formed and tried to modernise the country. Thus the roots of reform lies in the kuomintang. Yet the communists are all the time being accused of "destroying the culture". Not to mention thanks to CPC efforts and persistence the reform was successful and allowed unprecedented explosion of culture and education.
