THE TRUTH - Part 04

THE TRUTH

The proof that Greece is neither “homogeneous” nor has continuity from the ancient past is not difficult to explain. Just take a look at Greece’s population makeup from 1829 to 1928 and in it you will find Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Macedonians and Roma.

Period 1829

1830 – 1911

1912 – 1913

Activity Number of People Greece created for the first time (mostly Arvanites) Less then 1,000,000 Epirus and Thessaly Annexed (Vlahs and Albanians) 1,600,000 51% of ethnographic Macedonia Annexed (Macedonians) 2,500,000 1920 – 1928 Importation of Christian Turks from Asia Minor (Turks) 1,100,000

In 1928 Greece registered 6,200,000 people after which it declared itself homogenous consisting of 100% pure Greeks with a very small Muslim but ethnically Greek population. In the 1920’s Greece imported 1.1 million Christian Turks from Asia Minor, claiming that they were descendants of the “Ancient Greeks”. At the time, not one of them spoke Greek or identified with the Greeks. How could they have? A “Greek Nation” never existed before 1829!

BIG Greek Lie # 6 - “Greeks are a superior race”

(Some Greeks, among themselves, believe they are a superior race)

Greek claims to superiority are not something that Greeks tout to outsiders but it is frequently discussed among Greeks in private company. I don’t know if it is a genuine belief but some Greeks do believe that they have given the world everything, from philosophy to science to mathematics to democracy, and that, they believe, makes them superior. Even if modern Greeks are, in a small and remote way, descendants of the ancient people who lived in the ancient City States, which I doubt they are, some credit is due to them. Unfortunately not all of what was attributed to the ancient City States is accurate. Archeology and science have proven that not all of the so-called “Greek contributions” are actually “Greek”. This however has not stopped modern Greeks from making claims. We now know that the atom was discussed in India one millennium before there ever were ancient City States. Greeks unfortunately continue to claim it as their own invention. Even though the Egyptians were using geometry for millennia, to identify their plots of land on the Nile flood plains after the winter floods, the Greeks continue to claim that they invented it. Was the alphabet a Greek invention? Greeks claim it was! But can they explain the etymology of the words “alpha”, “vita”, “ghamma”, “thelta” etc,? I think not! The Greek alphabet is actually not Greek at all, it is Phoenician! The Phoenicians were not Greek, they were Phoenician! If not the alphabet then democracy must have been invented by the Greeks for sure! I think not! Democracy, in the true sense of the word, as it is practiced today was also practiced by the Phoenicians many years before it was adopted by Athens. Not all ancient City States were democracies! Sparta was not a democracy. What exactly do we mean by “democracy” and how does it relate to the type of “democracy” practiced in Athens during its heydays? According to Webster, democracy is “majority rule; the principle of equality of rights, opportunity, and treatment, or the practice of this principle; the common people, esp. as the wielders of political power”. Athens, on the other hand, was ruled by a very small minority of wealthy white men. These men were not only rulers, they were also slave owners. Slaves, who comprised about sixty-percent of the Athenian population, were neither Athenian citizens nor did they have any political rights. In fact these people were bought and sold in the market like commodities. Further, women, who made up about half of the ancient Athenian population, did not have any rights at all, not even to call themselves human. So if we compare Webster’s definition of democracy to that practiced in ancient Athens we find that they don’t compare at all! In reality the type of so-called democracy practiced by the ancient Athenians was worse than our 19th century Fascism and Nazism, the type of rule popular with white racist regimes. The ancients may have called it democracy but lets not confuse it with our modern democracy which is more like the original democracy practiced by the Phoenicians. Two and half millennia later Greeks keep on inventing things like Greek coffee, Greek salad and Greek pizza and keep on giving to the world without asking anything in return. So how are Greeks superior to the rest of us? One thing they are proving to be is “superior liars”!

THE TRUTH

Modern Greeks, along with their Roman-derived benefactors, have not only falsified “ancient history”, they have robbed other civilizations of their contribution to the world. Clearly the contributions of say the Phoenician and Egyptian civilizations, which were far superior civilizations to that of ancient Athens, are totally ignored and long forgotten. Worse, their contributions have now been expropriated (stolen) by the Greeks and claimed to be Greek. Two and a half millennia later Greeks continue to expropriate (steal) other people’s ideas and inventions and shamelessly call them their own! I have already mentioned the atom and geometry, but Greek coffee? Clearly everyone knows “Greek coffee” is actually Turkish coffee. As for “Greek salad”, that too is another “Greek invention”. What is shameful about the “Greek salad”, apart from the fact that it was not invented by Greeks, is that Greek restaurant owners, boasting to their western tourist customers claim it to be “an ancient recipe passed on to them from the time of the ancient City States”. Thus far the only thing that Greeks have proven is that they are “superior liars”. Other than that Greeks are no better, no worse and no different than the rest of us. If I may add my own opinion, I believe as a people we are all the same, only our attitudes towards one another differ and that is mainly due to “foreign influence” and ignorance of the truth. All modern Balkan nations are made from the same stock (raw material) of people. We lived borderless for over two and a half millennia. You figure out the rest.

BIG Greek Lie # 7 - “Greece is a Democratic State”

(Some modern Greeks believe they live in a democracy)

Up until the 1970’s Greece had been plagued by dictatorship after dictatorship but since then it has existed in a relative calm. At least, that is how it appears from the outside. Besides being the last country in Europe to give women the right to vote in the 1950’s, by democracy I mean the usual things that we in the west take for granted, like freedom of speech, the right of association, the right to education in one’s mother tongue, minority rights, etc., etc. When I was attending public school in Greece, I was told that “Greeks were the freest people on this planet. There was no better life in the entire world than that of a Greek.” Then one day I came home singing a song that I had learned in school which went something like this; “Grekos genithika ke Grekos tha pethono”, which roughly translates to “Greek I was born and Greek I shall die”.

It was not the words of the song that horrified my parents but what it meant for the Macedonians and that, I, their son, was singing it!

Naturally they told me to stop singing it and would not tell me why. I was much too young to understand and betrayal could have meant severe punishment for them. My father was already a “marked man”, he had served five years in the Greek Island concentration camp prisons for “being a danger to the Greek State”. Whatever that means? Even though I was young, I could see that something was troubling my parents and wanted to know what it was. Upon my insistence, my mother broke down and told me. She said, “We are Macedonians, we are not Greek. The song you are singing is anti-Macedonian and was sung by people who did harm to us. Those people may be Greek heroes but they were our enemies. They murdered people like us.” The word “Macedonians” at the time had no meaning for me except from what I had learned in school about the ancient “Makedones”.

But there it was; the word “Macedonians” a word which would haunt me to this day.

My mother made me swear that I would not repeat to anyone what I had just heard and I didn’t. My mother told me things that did not make sense to me until much later. In the meantime I had to live with a secret, a haunting secret. As time went on life taught me many things including the lies my country Greece fed me. I was told I was free but in reality it was a lie, I was a prisoner of the truth. I wanted to but I couldn’t tell anyone I was Macedonian for fear that my family would be punished and humiliated. I had seen what Greek teachers had done to children in the yard caught speaking their mother tongue and I didn’t like it so I continued to hide the truth and live a lie until I left Greece. In Canada as I encountered Greeks, I told them I was a Macedonian from Greece. As usual Greeks reacted in disbelief with the response, “There is no such thing as a Macedonian, only Greeks live in Greece.” More recently they say “You must be a Skopjan from FYROM, brainwashed by Tito’s propaganda.” I tell them I am not Skopjan nor have I ever been to Skopje. I was a Macedonian before I ever heard of Tito and I had never heard of Tito until I came to live in Canada. Had my parents said nothing to me about my family being Macedonian, I would have continued to be a “good Greek” and would have lived a lie. I would have been unquestionably accepted by the Greeks as a Greek with a glorious ancestry stretching back to the ancient Greeks. My parents spoiled all that, however, by telling me the truth. Now the Greeks call me a Slav, a Bulgar, a Skopjan Gypsy, etc., etc. and a traitor to Greece but all I want to be called is Macedonian because that is what I am. And how democratic is that? How democratic is a state that not only does not recognize its minorities but punishes them for being who they really are? Aside from those who accept their fate that they are not Greeks and admit to it, there are also those who knowingly love to live a lie. They are the most dangerous and most anti-democratic people. They loathe their own kin for not being Greeks. They live a nightmare afraid of being discovered and hated, as they despise others. Of course there is a third category of Greeks, a generation that does not really know its own true background and has accepted the State sponsored indoctrination as the truth. Some of these Greeks who truly believe Greece is a democratic state are finding the true nature of being a Greek when they begin to show sympathy to minorities, like the Turks and Macedonians living in Greece. They quickly find out that Greece is ONLY democratic for those who toe the government line. Those who sidestep state sponsored beliefs or choose to think for themselves quickly become traitors and anti-Greek. Greece boasts of being the cradle of democracy (another lie) but to this day has failed to practice it. Any modern state that does not tolerate diversity, celebrate multiculturalism and embrace its minorities is NOT democratic. It is difficult if not impossible to convince any Greek that what I am saying is the truth and not “Skopjan” lies and propaganda (even though I have admitted to not being a “Skopjan”) so I challenge those Greeks who do not believe me to go to their Government and propose a solution to the Macedonian question. Just simply say, “It is not fair how you treat the Macedonian minority in Greece” and propose that it be recognized. I guarantee you that not only will your government do nothing for the Macedonians but it will chastise you and call you a traitor for even having such thoughts. If you care so much for the truth, then I dare you to do it!