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#15156242
Greece and Bulgaria are paradox in behalf of multiculti european vibe, even more if we know that they are not willing to recognize existence of Slavic macedonian minority in its borders, and while the world is focused on the Uyghur exodus, still eU hasant addressed its modern quiet one, tho which is reflex of the past century ...

    must add that the tempered assimilation that was vigorous in the past century, what was reflex of the european proxy colonization of the Ottoman Empire [1][1] process which as educational tool was for one century imposed as norm in Greece and Bulgaria with no room even for domestic revisionism on level of institutional educational debate, with humble respect to any attempts, but the european human'rights'paradox now got even on greater level when in the same manner is imposed even today on sovereign state so it would join their european "human" club i.e. eU is really joke when acting concerned about asian human rights while on its soil is closing its eyes for the new sophisticated ethnocid in case of Macedonia now rebranded by force in North Macedonia ... sophisticated histo-political propaganda that is used for rebranding of macedonians in everything else but macedonians IF they want to join eU, and is really mindboggling how such thing exist nowadays i.e. someone to negate the right of some culture to see itself as it wish What should be the basic human right ...

I think all this is result due the lack of unified historical standardization in eU, as if there is no will to be found common understanding of history, what as field is left to the member states to decide what is true or not i.e. there is decentralized dissonance of the past thats believed will be overcome in eventual federal centralized europe, but that is just illusion if not delusion, instead nowadays as different to be balanced by our own will someone tomorrow to impose from the centralized european top particular historical revisionism, if not else like that risk what think will never push coexistence but will produce further animosity!

there is one interesting past thread where the OP states that as external motives Greece as nation state was conceived (among other) because lusts for cemented european heritage that would be praised as still existing, although defacto that pagan heritage has long ago disappeared by different means, eventually it couldnt be used even as reminiscence of the ancient vibe, simply Greece was not so homogeneous ethnic stew but one of the most mixed ones through the past 20 centuries which alone in romanticism by linguistic impositions built new national consciousness ...

    ... and ok, it was their right i.e. to those greek people to see such birth of such nation as needed for their future happiness, but what they have done day after was introducing forcible hellenization except occupation of territories that were never theirs earlier i.e. mass ethnocide of slav speaking population in Macedonia and Trakia that called themselves macedonians, thier solely right, as example in similar manner was greek too ~ when they became mix between phoenicians and pelasgians and called themselves greeks, but they never saw themselves as macedonians or pelasgians (the macedonian ancestors) unlike them later slavs mixed with macedonians and borrowed the geographic name, so they were enough entitled to call themselves as they like including their descendants nowadays, after all its geographic affiliation and not ethnic that till after the age of romanticism and the birth of nations as everywhere in europe it became ethnic one ... tho which I think is wrong from perspective of Orthodox Christian Unity because the concept nation entered also in the Church ~ now known as ethno'philetistic heresy!

... in this respect, Greece not just that have used colonizing methods for its megali idea [1][1] but also imposed brainwashing similar to nowadays chinese - metaxas regime should ring the bell [1][1][1] but in way more ruthless manner because it was not question of political ideological rebranding but per-se linguistic and religious assimilation, thus ethnocide, needed ethnic cleansing so the new acquired lands would be nationally as clean as possible!!! and not just that/this is still historically buried taboo, but also there is no official will for reconciliation as neighbors i.e. greeks didnt apologize anyway for their past century balkan wars exodus in Aegean Macedonia against the slavic speaking macedonians, even more still as european member dont recognize any macedonian slav speaking minority in full extent , to be more ridiculous it represents itself as cradle of democracy but still functioning as homogeneous arynistic state that cant accept that there is still population in its borders that officially want to call itself macedonian, even worst as blueprint in foreign relationships it negate that right in other states through all kind of political machinations against its culturally disputed neighbor!
#15156271
is this still normal in eU!? the champions of democracy!? union champion of human rights!? here is one of the rare greek tv interview where in question is the macedonian language and cultural struggle for its recognition in 21st century Greece [1] and this is really something exceptional from contra-tv ... must say recently there is mood for recognition but that became only paper signature [1] so the previous greek government of Alexis Tsipras would get the last european installment of 15 billion euros from the 300b bailout after the greek debt crisis ...

During the Greek Civil War, the codified Macedonian language was taught in 87 schools with 10,000 students in areas of northern Greece under the control of Communist-led forces, until their defeat by the National Army in 1949.[152] After the war, all of these Macedonian-language schools were closed down. [1]


    In the northernmost parts of the Greek regions of Western and Central Macedonia, however, all the folk dances are instrumental tunes. Lyrics have been replaced by loud, brass and woodwind instruments like the cornet, the trombone and the clarinet. This is not some peculiar aspect of the local musical heritage. Traditional tunes in these regions had their own words – but they were in a language that the Greek state has tried to wipe out for nearly a century: Macedonian Slavic.
    ...
    This sort of linguistic oppression is far from unique. Similar stories have been reported by speakers of Irish in Ireland, Scottish Gaelic in Scotland, Welsh in Wales (read Susan Elan Jones’s comments in Column 377), Catalan in Spain, Native American languages in the US and Aboriginal languages in Australia. [1]


    “So what rights are we talking about?”

    “so that I can learn/study in my own language”) So that I can learn my own language, at least at Primary school. [1]

The Greek state requires radio stations to broadcast in Greek, therefore excluding the Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia (who are considered ethnic Macedonians by the Rainbow political party) from operating radio stations in Slavic. [1]

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Several Macedonian-language radio stations have recently been set up in Greek Macedonia to cater for the Macedonian speaking population.[143] These stations however, like other Macedonian-language institutions in Greece have faced fierce opposition from the authorities, with one of these radio stations, "Macedonian Voice" (Macedonian: Македонски Глас), being shut down by authorities. [1][1]


its same with the political strive it can exist only as greek without any mentioning in slavic language, constant pressure [1][1] that hope sometime soon will be loosen, tho with the emrgence of golden down neonazis in Greece this is discutable, think the oppression will again transfer in xenophoby, hope not!?
#15156276
same source as the op wrote: In 1984 the "Movement for Human and National Rights for the Slavic Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia" was founded,[66] and was followed by the creation of the "Central Committee for Slavic Macedonian Human Rights" in Thessaloniki in 1989.[67] In 1990 a manifesto by this group was presented to the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe on behalf of the Slavic Macedonians.[66] Following this the "Slavic Macedonian Movement for Balkan Prosperity" (MAKIVE) was formed, and in 1993 this group held the first "All Slavic Macedonian Congress" in Greece.[68] The bilingual Slavic-Macedonian and Greek-language "Ta Moglena" newspaper was first put into print in 1989, and although restricted to the Moglena region had a readership of 3,000.[69][71]


These Slavic-macedonian organisations are on top of the Bulgarian and Serbian organisations already representing Slavic Macedonian interests in Macedonia, Greece.

Comparing that to the internment, sterilisation and brainwashing of the Uyghurs is :lol:
#15156278
yes back in history there was also expulsion of macedonians, forced "exchange" with Bulgaria and Yugoslavia etc.

the thing that You cant grasp is simple in nowadays europe still brainwashing is norm!!! maybe You would want sterilization too!?

and again this is current topic that still lasts, not something that was 30 years ago!
#15156279
The Greek Civil War was in 1944-1949 in the post-war, Slavic communists were expelled along with Greek communists. These people were rehabilitated and compensated in varying degrees after 1981.

The population exchanges took place with the consent of the countries involved and Greeks were certainly the largest victims of those exchanges as more Greeks were uprooted from the former territories of the Ottoman empire than any other ethnicity.
#15156280
hm what are You talking about, I am pointing that the psychological torture still exist, and on top of that forced along historical exceptionalism that negate any minority, past century ethnic cleansing practices that still exist in modern europe!
#15156281
Odiseizam wrote:hm what are You talking about, I am pointing that the psychological torture still exist, and on top of that forced along historical exceptionalism that negate any minority, past century ethnic cleansing practices that still exist in modern europe!


The only torture is inside your own mind. No-one is suppressing you in any way, shape or form.

You need to find another bad guy to blame for your problems.
#15156286
noemon wrote:The only torture is inside your own mind. No-one is suppressing you in any way, shape or form.

You need to find another bad guy to blame for your problems.


bad greek politics still norm in europe Yeah that is good excuse! btw Uyghurs in China have way greater rights than Macedonians in Greece, probably if they were 2 million now in Greece they would be submitted also in reeducation camps even sterilized too, but en-masse were expelled from there earlier so there is no need of harsher lobotomization!
#15156294
is the ratification of FCNM (Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities) any guarantee of freedom of expression, as I am aware only in Greece is not allowed any cultural expression as non-greek "topic abolished since 1951" [1][1] thus citizens having no right to separate cultural existence [1] except Macedonians on the matter are loud Turks too, but to no avail [1]

as I can see except Greece also other eU members didnt ratified FCNM , so logically minority rights are not secured there too, but is that exactly extreme case like in Greece even for census ban of national or cultural freedom of expression!?

    Belgium, Greece, Iceland and Luxembourg have signed but not yet ratified the Framework Convention. Andorra, France, Monaco and Turkey have neither signed nor ratified the Framework Convention.

    https://www.coe.int/en/web/minorities/country-specific-monitoring

if this is basic freedom ideal in europe, how so Belgium didnt ratified also this convention, what about implementing it, the cradle of european institutions still havent moved finger in this respect, then why Greece to be prime culprit in eU on the matter!? hm, is it allowed german radio stations to function freely in Belgium? maybe there is just legislature laziness?

hm Belgium is willing but there decentralization stood on the way [1] normally Greece is homogenic as France, but didnt know that France didnt even signed the convention WOW is this real!? at least have some ridiculous liberty and recognition of some language minorities with two hour weekly national broadcast ...

    France 3, is responsible for contributing to the expression of regional languages spoken on metropolitan French territory and it broadcasts weekly programming in regional language
    ...
    Prior to the end of the public monopoly in 1982, the promotion of regional languages on broadcasting was assured by a few hours of broadcast programming. Since Law n°82-652 of29 July 1982 pertaining to broadcast communication was passed, only public television channels (France 2 and France 3) support the expression of regional languages and cultures.More precisely, the specifications of France 3 require the channel to contribute to “the expression of regional languages spoken on metropolitan French territory.”20 In practice,France 3 assures, by its decentralised programming in each region, weekly programmes in the regional language (for a maximum of two hours, in general)
    ...
    https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/3/1/78058.pdf

how can europe expect its citizens to accept that is democratic when basic human rights are not meet!? is it possible even to adress to other countries any similar issue and still in their own courtyard things are derogatory till level of totalitarianism!? I did known that France had similar homogenous mindset as Greece but not supporting the multiculti concept that in european terms is heresy, CAN I ASK why there are no sanctions against France so it would be conditioned in more european manner!?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/12/why-its-so-hard-for-minorities-in-france-to-find-safe-spaces/

France refuses to recognize any minority; therefore the Basques, Bretons, Corsicans, Roma etc. are unrecognized. Turkey considers that no Muslims can have an ethnic identity other than Turkish; hence Muslim Kurds or Roma are unrecognized, while non-Muslims are recognized only as religious minorities. Greece’s approach is similar: all Eastern Orthodox are viewed as ethnic Greeks, while Muslims are recognized but only as a religious minority; hence Macedonians as well as Roma are unrecognized minorities.
...
The CoE’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has highlighted the recognition problems in its reports on France and Greece (although it did not do this in its report on Turkey)
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https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/old-site-downloads/download-47-Recognition-of-Minorities-in-Europe-Protecting-Rights-and-Dignity.pdf
#15156388
Odiseizam wrote:bad greek politics still norm in europe Yeah that is good excuse! btw Uyghurs in China have way greater rights than Macedonians in Greece, probably if they were 2 million now in Greece they would be submitted also in reeducation camps even sterilized too, but en-masse were expelled from there earlier so there is no need of harsher lobotomization!


I can believe that Slavic Macedonians may have been subjected to even more cumulative communist brainwashing by their own government than perhaps the Uyghurs have been subjected by China, though probably not with as harsh & cruel measures as China.

Slavic people were exchanged with Greek people and Muslim people after WW1 with the consent of all the governments involved. Greek people suffered more than any other group during these exchanges as they were by far the largest ethnic-group to be transferred and re-located.

After the Greek civil war of 1946-1949 between communists and nationalists, Greek and foreign communists were expelled from the country after the victory of the nationalists and fled to neighbouring Yugoslavia, these people were rehabilitated and compensated after 1981 when the socialists came to power in Greece and decided to heal those divisions.

You will never make something out of yourself if you believe foreigners are to blame for your human condition.

Greece is not mistreating its Slavic population but quite the contrary a lot of former Yugoslavs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Romanians and Turks have made Greece their home the past few decades. Greece is one of the top destinations for Balkan migrants and also the largest foreign investor in North Macedonia.
#15156423
Your opinion is in large extent biased by greek propaganda, simple Macedonians didnt have own state they were misused by freemasonry in 1903 with unilateral early insurgency and lost their edge that later was used on advantage of the neighboring countries Greece Bulgaria and Serbia so they would divide between themselves Macedonia that never was their homeland, so yes they started relocation of Macedonians how they see fit to their interests, in what greeks were most ruthless in same time bringing colonists from Asia Minor that were "exchanged" with Turkey so they the "greek geostrategist" (I think it was british skim) changed the ethnic picture enmasse in Macedonia, suddenly from 20% greek population they became 70% (free estimate) what later was additionally decimated as percentage after the "greek civil war" (again british skim) so yalta agreement would be as much as possible effective on ground, and the repercussion and torture still continued as in time of the earlier balkan wars, every Macedonian if was stubborn and talk in slavic was stripped from any priviledges and many again jailed because their macedonian consciousness, after '80s those that flea earlier if they came back and said they are Macedonians they would be again subdued to psychological and physical torture!

    ... You cant see and dont want to see the truth of the amount of ethnic cleansing that happened in Greece just because You are greek noemon, the exceptional righteous nation that was victim not aggressor, what as ultrahomogenic nationalistic mindsed was implanted not just in Greece among Greeks but abroad too even nowadays Greeks cant accept the fact that they are colonizators of Macedonia not liberators! tho there were and are many Greeks that were coming in public with the truth also, but they all end up as traitors of the grabbing criminal cause - for brainwashing all that Macedonia is Greek, sudetly till after 1990 north Greece was called Macedonia when it was obvious that the ex-yu republic will become independent and just after started the agitprop how only true Macedonians are greek macedonians, wow, this is so obvious form the recent history that one should ask himself how is possible even in modern europe to exists past century methods of propaganda assimilation and pressure like Greece was doing on Macedonia and Macedonians!

... but I can understand how difficult is for some robber to accept that half of his land is stolen, and yes its easier to act like Macedonians have stolen the history than vice versa after all half Macedonia is in greek hands for one century and in all that time the brainwashing think was greater on behalf of the greek population that now is simply futile to argue with any Greek on the matter, so I dont expect that You will wake up to the fact that Greece is still living in own aryanistic dreams coz it got them through occupation, Yeah its hard to acknowledge that fact, but eventually history will take its turn on the bright side when if not else in the end, just till then instead people to chill out and find common ground through reconciliation they will curse eachother and like that burning their souls, sadly instead there to be academic debate in europe on the matter the same is at best avoided, You known their greek roots could loosen like that i.e. the greek exceptionalism will fall apart and like that the european neopagan heritage could got loosen ground! Please Dont Be fooled by my word stay Nationalist like that who knows maybe You'll get statue in pantheon!? tho You can try for once to read sources that are not Greek! here is nice videoart if You dont have time for reading ...

https://youtu.be/QAYAlO9Bw5o
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#15156427
During the population exchanges after WW1:

Around 1.5 million Greeks, half a million Turks and 150k Bulgarians(from Macedonia) were exchanged and relocated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populatio ... and_Turkey

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25643653?seq=1

After WW2, the Greek civil war gave pretext to Yugoslavia to invade Greek Macedonia but was unsuccessful and the propaganda is still going strong with certain people.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT

(Full text of the Airgram)

Foreign Relations Vol. VIII, 868.014 / 26 Dec. 1944

"The Department has noted increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official statements in favor of an autonomous Macedonia, emanating principally from Bulgaria, but also from YugoslavPartisan and other sources, with the implication that Greek territory would be included in the projected state. This Government (of USA) considers talk of Macedonian "nation", Macedonian "Fatherland", or Macedonian "national consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic, nor political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece.
The approved policy of this Government is to oppose any revival of the Macedonian issue as related to Greece. The Greek section of Macedonia is largely inhabited by Greeks, and the Greek people are almost unanimously opposed to the creation of a Macedonian state. Allegations of serious Greek participation in any such agitation can be assumed to be false. This Government (of USA) would regard as responsible any Government or group of Gonernments tolerating or encouraging menacing or aggressive acts of "Macedonian forces" against Greece".

STETTINIUS U



Pro-Serbians vs. Pro-Bulgarians: Revisionism in Post-Socialist Macedonian Historiography by Ulf Brunnbauer wrote:
This institute, which is by far the leading historical research institution in Macedonia, was charged by law to write the history of the Macedonian people and thereby to contribute to the consolidation of the imagined community of Macedonians, to which it has been devoting almost all its efforts ever since...

An important means to make the Macedonians different from the Bulgarians and to buttress Macedonian claims for national and ethnic distinctiveness was to dissociate Macedonian from Bulgarian history and to de-emphasize, or deny any relation between these two peoples. ... They declared the 10th century empire of Samuil, which hitherto had been known only as a Bulgarian state (as such it was also called by contemporary Byzantine sources), a Macedonian affair and began to trace the differences between Macedonians and Bulgarians in the time of the Slav's arrival in the Balkans (6 to 7th centuries).

After 1990, historians in the Republic of Macedonia soon settled in accepting communist-time scholarship as the base on which to build further research. The reluctance for a thorough re-evaluation of communist historiography was mainly caused by the fact that the very nation of Macedonia was a result of communist Yugoslav policies, and this historiography had played a major role in the nation-building process. Historians therefore feared that substantial critique of communist historiography and of the Yugoslav period would jeopardize Macedonian national identity. There was also no official effort for a re-evaluation of the communist past. Cracks in this consensus occurred after 1998, when the anti-communist opposition came to power. Revisionist tendencies appeared which portrayed Yugoslavia as a peoples' prison and tried to rehabilitate personalities from Macedonian history, previously kept out of the national pantheon. The main dividing line was the one between historians who kept to the radical dissociation of Macedonian from Bulgarian history, and those who accepted the cultural proximity between these two peoples. Both tendencies, however, shared their basically nationalistic conceptualization of the past.
#15156494
You have point when anglosaxon interests are at stake there was ready propaganda how Macedonians are fictional, what was even earlier case, but they have outperform themselves when they used for first time modern napalm against the macedonian commie rebels, the liquid was american and the planes british, so for sure they would rather want macedonians not to exist than coz them the western world to be bashed for inhuman warfare , btw without this greeks will never have end the civil war!

    You see I dont blame greeks serbs or bulgarians why they've divided Macedonia and persecuted or cleansed macedonians, on top through their assimilation skims later tried to brush the unique macedonian selfconsciousness, simply as occupiers they were just pawns in hands of the freemasonry that decided that free macedonian state would be risk for all, then they (the european power centers around wwI) divided their interests through their vassals in the balkan wars, and every body had its share from the fertile land that was mast-have as logistics for further wars and grabbing in the middle east! the problem is that all that is cemented by nationalism as earlier so as today i.e. still the Macedonian Identity is negated - from greek side on level of everything, from bulgarian on level of language and from serbian side on religious level, all of them as occupiers became hostages on their past behavior in the first balkan wars and since then they are not willing to admit that indeed an occupation and dividing of Macedonia along ethnic cleansing was in place, as if macedonia was theirs and they just throw dices who will have what, and still coz geostrategic interests the same tailoring is again and again backed by their western pimps, if I may say it like this, tho there were other calculations too i.e. freemasons were hopping that they would control more easily their balkan vassals if they have ace that in time of unobidience would be activated by need i.e. provoking macedonians on revolts, but I am not sure whether brits saw that this is too risky for Greece so arranged more homogeneous approach, or greeks acted on their own hand, if we see how through the League of Nations was acknowledged separate macedonian minority and printed books in slavic for schools, what was later stopped by the greeks, it was obvious that they alone decided to impose the ethnic cleansing skims, what to say its pity that the Truth even today is not acknowledged by Greece, and You be ashamed that this is still case, instead You act blind pushing the old the greek agitprop narrative like we didnt done nothing wrong, Hm Hm Hm, Please tell what happened in the balkan wars greeks liberated greek teritories?

what is more ridiculous with aproach like this although Orthodox Christians greeks have done something that still seeds hate, mostly in themselves as occupiers, even serbians that have returned or better said lost their share after ww2 still see macedonians as southern-serbians, and that is the paradox even after there is no need they are so brainwashed that still dont see us as equal brothers but lower serbian class that should be reeducated so it would became again turbo'serb one, tho officially at least they recognized our separate nationality but what is reflex from the ex-yu hang up in meantime , and if they are even those circumstances so fuzzy in the head, just imagine how greeks and bulgarians are who still hold parts of Macedonia that were grabbed from macedonians!? yet, their fears are not excusable because nowadays Independent Macedonia (now by force renamed North Macedonia) is no treat to them by no means, stil their ego is so big that they cant accept that they were/are occupiers but see themselves as liberators, and their past ethnic cleansing is easily overseen as exchange of population, yeah introduced by/among grabbers themselves btw by force expelling macedonians from Aegean Macedonia ... probably many even dont get how stupid is to defend such history like this, going along with it as - You know that was everything ok, hm, be aware the exchanged werent bulgarians they were macedonians, the venizelos-ljachev deal was arranged with hope to close the macedonian question as there are no macedonians i.e. those who will stay should declare themselves as greeks and speak greek and those that are not ok with that to be "exchanged", hm do You know how many greeks were exchanged by Bulgaria!? if the macedonian slavic population havent own consciousness it would sing song on bulgarian dialects with lyrics for Bulgaria or Greece or Serbia, instead they were singing about Macedonia through the centuries, so Please dont use such "arguments" and at least You can try to see the Truth with human eyes instead dehumanizing it with greek agitprop glasses!
#15156498
The only hate is in your own mind brah. It's not healthy. Greece is not the reason for your condition, your condition is home-made.

Your state came about by Communist dictat from a Serbian province during the Greek civil war with the express intent to annex Greek Macedonia.

It failed and has been in identity crisis ever since.

Before that it was Bulgaria who had used the Slavic element to invade and occupy Greek Macedonia a couple of times.

Get over it and stop fantasising about claiming Greek Macedonia. A few wars were fought to settle the matter and the matter is considered settled indeed.
#15156507
and this is that greek exceptionalism :D thanks bringing up the point i.e. greeks see us as bulgarians, bulgarians normally as their, and I offered just simple example the traditional songs, why they are not about Bulgaria but about Macedonia, macedonians are people that were mix between slavs and the indigenous population in Macedonia whoever it was in late antiquity, as slavic Macedonian as balkan language contains many dialects transitional between serbian and bulgarian but it is separate one thus separate tribal affiliation had have through the centuries, simply any population living here called themselves by the toponym, this is also now case with the greeks that occupied Aegean Macedonia in 1913, tho this last one is recent thing just after 1990 before that there were no greek macedonians, its plain fact the existance of macedonians is risk for them and after the independence from ex-Yu Republic of Macedonia became suddenly danger for its wn righteousness in case of grabbed lands i.e. Aegean Macedonia so as measure not from any separatist risks but just pride greek state started claiming there were greek macedonians in 1990. if You have give me one example before '90s where greeks called themselves macedonians! who knows maybe this was just marketing spinn i.e. "national" fears that the greek tourism will suffer if people knew/know that Greece have occupied instead liberated Macedonia, is it so hard to acknowledge this fact, now wouldnt hurt anyone but will settle the unjustice, what again I'll say wasnt greek oil but british even not british but freemasonic coz uK was hostage of BEIC british east india company i.e. the freemasonry [1][1]

    I dont need to get over nothing I am in peace with myself, but greeks should, they cant accept the fact that they never had possessed Macedonia before 1913 and now that they are, acting blind like as ever it was their land, its more than hilarious if not stupid, the simple fact that they even made the antiquity claim over ancient macedonians is so ridiculous that only brainwashed people can believe that through the centuries there was case in balkans where some population stayed pure, aryan mythology that cant grasp that slavs occupied whole peninsula wide and long til Africa i.e. Cyprus was also invaded, so claiming some ethnic greek continuity coz linguistic ties through the centuries and that to be imposed as some kind of right to Macedonia is indeed idiotic, although even like that dont make sense coz even in antiquity macedonian pelasgians and greek phoenicians werent at all similar!

and Yes we as macedonians got own independence after ww2 and joined the south slav socialist federation , but no one has given us the victory but we fought for it, now this is even greater greek fantasmagoria i.e. we greeks became nation because freemasonry and they because help from commies, what a excuse, any macedonian "nationalism" if there is any has nothing to do with the greek atrocities against the macedonians in Aegean Macedonia after 1913 , so Please dont use wrong analogies so You can excuse the megali idea that seen the occupation of Macedonia as freeing the "greek" lands, its like saying France went liberating Middle East and Africa from arabs and african coz those were french lands, how!?
#15156530
noemon again and again the same biased narrative , cherrypicking quotes that serves the purpose for justification of the FYR-Macedonians exodus is at best wrong ... let me put this in more academic manner, The FYR-Macedonians even in the Ottoman Empire were hostage of foreign propaganda, balkan one and european adressed in favor of their vassals, FYR-Macedonians were maybe too far reachable for the west so it was more suitable to misuse them like this, mostly coz they couldnt get easily help from outside i.e FYR-Macedonia was first of all in biggest grip by ottomans eg. Salonica and Bitola as largest towns in balkans back then were extra controlled by the empire, and unlike the rest of the balkan lands Macedonia couldnt get easily help from sea or land, so FYR-Macedonians stayed locked, in meantime the other lands and its people got independent national states (freemasonic ideal) and as such became western vassals, simply financed by them they were pushing their western agendas for dismantling of the Ottoman Empire I have offered notion how Greece was under brits through BEIC almost seen as their colony if we compare the company and the state flag, tho first greeks were financed by city-of-london then got in debt till neck and later the independence actually became new dependence ...

... as I pointed earlier for their servitude the newly balkan states got Macedonia as reward, bonus that they saw to grab it in the balkan wars, tho first joined forces so they can expel the ottomans and then fighting among themselves so they can grab as much as possible from Macedonia, it was indeed hilarious to act as liberators but day after to become occupiers! process that started even earlier, their propaganda machines were trying to sway the macedonian population in own nationalistic hug through their already ethnophiletistic churches (national churches) trying to convince the macedonians that they are serbs bulgarians or greeks, again greedy strive for larger support coz their grabbing appetites!

    "Propaganda activity in Macedonia, ‘although political in their ends, are religious and educational in their methods’, although it was not Christianity itself at fault; the Balkan church leaders rather than attending to the spiritual well-being of the people were ‘the prime movers in every political campaign that it started’" [1][1]

the problem here is not what happened, happened what happened, its history after all after Yalta and ww2 any change of borders is breach of the international law, so even if it could be possible is not de'jure factual, so Greece or Bulgaria should not be afraid from anything by no means, altho with Kosovo and as result of that Crimea now that is somehow suspended unofficially, but anyway Greece is light years in military capability from FYR-Macedonia (now North Macedonia) that is ridiculous still to be pushed the greek exceptionalism as was pushed earlier, as I said is just some kind of marketing spinn and nothing else!!!

now, if we want international relations among the citizens to rise on higher level, the historical prejudice and bias should be overcom, there is no need for 20th century agitprop nowadays, simply this will be catharsis for Greece tho not from point of its nationalism but its Democracy what will eg. promote the human rights on greater level and like that deserve some hypothetical right to call itself cradle of democracy, but most of all so Orthodox Christianity would gain broader grip and strive for Christian Unity, Macedonia was is and will be the missing link in this respect through its Slavic Jerusalem the city of Ohrid, I really cant get why all cant see this moment that only through historical reconciliation and dismantling of the national exceptionalism we will become One as Orthodoxy, as if someone wants to holds us hostage in this limbo situation, as if we need to trench further in antiquity phantasmagorias so we can hate each other because we are different, almost as we are doomed to continue to annihilate each other in different centuries by different means, but in which century we live now!?
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Odiseizam wrote:noemon again and again the same biased narrative , cherrypicking quotes that serves the purpose for justification of the FYR-Macedonians exodus is at best wrong


After WW1, a treaty in the League of Nations was signed exchanging 150k Bulgarians from Greek Macedonia with around 50k Greeks from Bulgarian Macedonia and Bulgaria.

At the same time around 1.3 million Greeks and half a million Muslims were also exchanged/relocated with the Ottomans.

This is not Greek & Bulgarian "exceptionalism".

Your propaganda narrative that these self-identifying Bulgarians that were relocated in Bulgaria should not be considered as Bulgarians but as something else is something that you will have to sort out in your mind & soul as noone else can do something about it.

Odseizam wrote:there is no need for 20th century agitprop nowadays


Your entire position is 20th century nationalist agitprop sprinkled with conspiracy theory and propaganda.

The Balkan nation states got their independence because they fought for it, against the Ottomans, western armies and against each other too. FYR-Macedonia was baptised independent internally by communist decree after WW2 by renaming the Serbian province of Vardarska as that was the only Yugoslav province bordering the real Macedonia in Greece and Tito was explicitly claiming the real Macedonia for himself. He failed though and then also failed to reconfigure Vardarska in any meaningful way for its inhabitants, the entire province was showered so much in lies that the same WW2 agitprop not only survived but is the guiding principle of its inhabitants today as you clearly demonstrate.
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it is ! they were not bulgarians but aegean macedonians, so they didnt have back but were thrown in ruthless position intimidated and expelled by force, and those are just the publicized stats, and actually half million macedonians migrated from fear and just 150k expelled, the rest had to accept that they are greeks!

@noemon probably You are not aware what kind of atrocities were back then on stage!? what to say check the ww-1 mood and You'll see easily what I mean!

acting blind will not soothe then ethnic cleansing, it also happened in Kosovo by the serbian kingdom as in Aegean Macedonia by the greek, or later was provoked by the megali inertia in asia minor, so Please Wake Up we are 21st Century and still the macedonian exodus is negated, why is so much Your exceptionalism needed, as if there was back then any country that didnt made atrocities and Greece will be genocidal orphan, no but like this You will got it on pedesta like last one in europe that wont accept its aryanistic past as bad heritage instead great greek idea ...
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Odiseizam wrote:it is ! they were not bulgarians but aegean macedonians


These people officially identified as Bulgarians and were relocated in Bulgaria 100 years ago.

You are appropriating foreign people to blame Greece for the ethnic-cleansing that took place after WW1 when 1.3 million Greeks, half a million Muslims and 150k Bulgarians were exchanged under the League of Nations.
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