FLORINA OCCUPIED - Part 01

FLORINA OCCUPIED

AN AMBUSH

(Received November 22, 10 a.m.

Athens, 21st November.

The Greeks under the Crown Prince have occupied Florina (15 miles south-south-east of Monastir), intercepted the retreat of the Monastir army’s rear guard. Greek, Bulgarian and Servian officers at Salonika are warmly fraternizing. Public fetes are being held. Eight hundred wounded have arrived here from Salonika. A Russian cruiser has hastily sailed for Jaffa in consequence of reported massacres of Christians. A band of Macedonians ambushed 500 Turkish regulars in the Janina district, killing twenty four and wounding seventy seven. The rest fled.” [/quote] (The Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 125, November 22, 1912, page 7) Nicely done team, you got a reporter to say “Macedonians” in the middle of Athens. Wow! Being tired from lack of sleep the night before, Tito decided to give the team a break and called it quits a bit earlier than usual. I think it was more like Tito himself was tired and did not want to fall asleep and look unprofessional on the job. “See you all tomorrow same time,” were the last words I heard from Tito, which told me that the team was going home. I couldn’t see my watch in the dark trunk so I waited a while until I was sure everyone was gone before I clipped the trunk door open. Wow, it was only 1 p.m. so I figured I would mosey along and go home when I heard footsteps approaching fast and heavy breathing coming my way. It was TrueMacedonian. He was truly back and in a hurry. Several days ago he promised me that he would return and here he was. “I am so sorry I could not make it back the other days, things kept coming up and I had to postpone my return, but I am here now,” explained TrueMacedonian as he tried to catch his breath. “Tonight we are going to rock the universe, you and I,” he proudly announced. “What did you have in mind?” I asked.

“How about we just talk tonight because I am very tired and will most likely fall asleep and probably fall off the time machine and get lost in time,” answered TrueMacedonian. “You got it,” I said “What’s on your mind?” “First, let me clarify something here,” he said. “This is not just a time machine this is a time machine and a matter-energy tele-transporter. This device will take you to the year you want to go and will tele-transport you to the location you want to go,” explained TrueMacedonian as he pointed at the controls on the dashboard of the Delorean. “It sounds to me like a marriage between H. G. Wells and Gene Roddenberry,” I interceded. “Exactly!” TrueMacedonian pointed out. “Now that we have all that sorted out, I would like to go home, if you don’t mind, and get some sleep. But before I do I would like to leave you with something, something that may shock you,” said TrueMacedonian! “You have my undivided attention,” I answered as my curiosity peaked right off the curiosity meter scale! “The time machine is not real, and Tito did not create the Macedonians,” explained TrueMacedonian. “We have been brainwashed by the Greeks to believe this crap so that they can distract us from finding the truth.” “And what is the truth?” I asked. “The truth is that Macedonians have always existed and are living in Greece today. Do you think Tito created those Macedonians? Did you know that these Macedonians have absolutely no human rights? The Greeks who are not even real Greeks, I will tell you more about that another time, in 1912 and 1913 invaded, occupied and annexed Macedonia illegally by war, kicked out as many Macedonians as they could, killed a lot of them, burned their homes and entire villages and forced the rest to become Greeks. Ever since then the Greeks have been abusing the Macedonians, changing their names, taking away their lands, discriminating against them and prohibiting them from speaking their language. And if that was not enough they prohibited them from calling themselves Macedonians and claimed no Macedonians ever existed. All Macedonian family names, toponyms, hydronyms, etc. were changed to remove all traces of the Macedonians. They even gave the Macedonians Greek sounding personal names and prohibited them from baptizing their children with traditional Macedonian names. But when they could no longer keep a lid on the Macedonians, the Greeks claimed that Tito somehow ‘magically’ created them.

What I am telling you is real, it is the truth, the rest is a façade designed to waste our time in trying to prove the obvious. Of course Macedonians exist but whether they exist or not, it should not be a matter for anyone except for the Macedonians themselves to decide. Only Macedonians can decide whether Macedonians exist or not, not their enemies the Greeks, Bulgarians and others. As you very well know, the Greeks have illegally invaded, occupied and annexed Macedonian lands, 51% to be precise. They have taken Macedonian peoples’ lands by force and without paying for them, which is unheard of anywhere else in the world, and now they will do anything; lie, cheat, discriminate and even claim Macedonians do not exist, to hide the truth and their crimes. This is real! What I am telling you is real, it is the truth. There is a greater purpose that must be served, that we need to serve and that is to highlight the fact that Macedonians living in Greece today don’t even have the most basic of human rights. For God’s sake, they are not even allowed to call themselves Macedonians or speak their language; the language they learned from their mothers! What could be worse than that? And because they are Macedonians the Greeks discriminate against them even more and hate them because the Greeks know some day these Macedonians will be asking for their lands back. These lands have been given away and the only way to compensate for them will be to pay for them. And who is going to pay for them? Greece? Greece is broke. The burden will have to fall on European shoulders. No wonder Europeans hate us. They hate us because of what they have done to us, allowing Greece to abuse us for over a century. They should hate Greece, but Greece is their child, something they created in the 19th century, something we need to discuss in more detail later. Now I am getting very tired and need to go home and get some sleep. See you tomorrow.” And with those words, TrueMacedonian left for home, leaving me with a lot to think about.

Comments from our readers:

If we must believe we have to engage in any old rubbish about who "invented" the Macedonians with any of our appalling opponents, especially the Greeks, let me run some thoughts past you I have had of late and also what I think about the Tito thesis: If Tito could have created a "Macedonian ethnic group" with a Macedonian language and history he was or is probably as good as any saint or miracle worker in the best religions of the world. So, let me repeat what I once proposed to our Greek friends on a moronic blog

site when I was still naïve and believed that the Internet could be a force for deliberative democracy: the Greeks should build and have consecrated by the Patriarch in Istanbul (no longer Constantinople, alas, for the day in 1453) a holy cathedral. Now this cathedral should be built in Greek-occupied Macedonia (Let us never forget since 1913) in honour of Saint Josip Broz Tito who performed the miracle of creating an ethnic group called "Macedonian". The reason for the "Greeks" (who "created" them, by the way?) consecrating such a cathedral "our Dedo" in historical Macedonian territory is that Modern Greeks can pray to Saint J B Tito with their usual fervour for a “Macedonian” ethnic group to be delivered to them which speaks Greek! (Incidentally, the fact that Tito was a communist and an atheist who used the excuse for his policies "Narodot" rather than "Boga" is just a point of historical detail-a saint must make the most of his opportunities.) If anyone really wants to know who "created" the Macedonians let them consider the following line of argument: Aristotle the philosopher (384-322 BC) born in Stageira in the ancient kingdom of Macedonia had his mental or psychic structure formed by a Macedonian upbringing of the time. He became learned in every area of human knowledge in the Attic language (not called "Greek" at the time) in the city state of Athens. He has been the most extraordinary and most influential thinker in European civilization and beyond. Aristotle's thought and writings were rescued by brilliant Arab philosophers like Averroes, Avicenna etc., and his influence came into the medieval world via the Arabic language, then Latin, Spanish Castilian, etc., so he was a universal genius that could speak to humanity in all languages. His basic view was intellectualist: that through the use of reason human beings could find happiness. And yes, he was a Macedonian, not an Athenian, and I would choose him as my model rather than Alexander the Great and not just because I happen to have been born about 150 kilometers from Stageira in the middle of the 20th century. (Incidentally, Alexander the Great died at the age of 32 of alcoholic poisoning because the Macedonians and the "Greeks" were not convinced that he should be worshipped as a god - an idea about kingship that he keenly adopted from the more profound and complex cultures he had conquered in the East). I think it is important to remind ourselves that the real world beyond the Balkan nationalistic propaganda fantasyland does not care about who the real descendants are from the "cradle of culture". So shoulder to the wheel let us again speak of the key priorities: human and national rights for the Macedonians in 2009. The justice and freedom that they are entitled to at present and should be striving for

are not even remotely connected to issues concerning antiquity or even Sveti Dedo Tito. Although, I do commend the unmasking of the claptrap and hocus pocus of the nationalists-it is the positive stuff that should be fore grounded rather than the lies that every nation feels obliged to tell to bolster itself up as a legitimate entity.

Jim T.

Essay 9 - Macedonians Executed

As I turned the corner towards the “hiding place” the next morning, I could see TrueMacedonian from the distance pacing back and forth, preoccupied with his own thoughts. “Dobro Utro,” I called out as I passed through the haze in the dip on my way towards him. “Dobro Utro,” he called out in a half squelched voice trying to keep quiet in case someone was lurking in the surrounding woodland. At this point TrueMacedonian stopped pacing and pulled out a well folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to me. “To save us time,” he said “I wrote down what I was going to say. So here it is, but please put it away and read it at your leisure.” Unable to resist the temptation, and contrary to TrueMacedonian’s advice, I unfolded the piece of paper and began to read. Here is what he had written;

“Modern Greece: Made In Germany - Part II

http://www.maknews.com/forum/general-discussions/modern-greece-made-in-germany-pt-2-t17083.html

(‘It's enough for the Greeks to mimic the Germans to regain what they once had.’) Ludwig Von Maurer, Das griechische Volk (1834). Last we left off (Part I) reading about the affect that the Germans had on German Made Modern Greece. From Kingship to even Flagship today’s Neo-Hellene is the ultimate creation of what their German masters would have them be. Not to take away from the superstar of the nineteenth century Lord Byron, who catapulted the cause for their war for independence, but the Germans had him beat by a full century. They even went so far as to put Hellas into production before Greece existed as such. (1) According to scholar Stathis Gourgouris ‘The force of this cultural pre-construction in Greece cannot be underestimated, considering especially that the sociopolitical conditions prevailing at the end of the War of Independence point to an irreducible social and cultural discontinuity, to a zero point in the operation of those significations that were conceivably to propel and uphold the images of a new national identity.....Thus, the recourse of the new image of Hellas (both as cultural construct and as social system) began immediately upon the brief rule of Governor Kapodistrias and became efficiently implemented with the takeover of the Bavarian monarchy and its explicit desire for centralization and Hellenization. In fact, the cultural image of a modern Greece was put into production with much greater

urgency than was a political-economic infrastructure, despite the obvious importance of the latter in a newly constituted State.’ (2) German manufacturing was in full effect before the inhabitants of Modern Greece even knew who Zeus was. What happened in Greece was the invention of a myth of nationality that provided, at the deepest level, a metaphysical rationale for life and death: a meaning for what would otherwise be our futile, meaningless existence. No matter if the myth took various forms, for any myth is always the sum of its many variations. (3) The seeds were planted and German production plants were popping up everywhere in German Made Modern Greece. The University of Athens (1837-) was the first institution of higher learning in the new Kingdom and was founded by King Otto on the German model. (4) A Bavarian even ensured that Otto's kingdom would come supplied with excellent lager beer available to all newly made Greeks - its originator's name ‘Fuchs’ having been Hellenized to ‘Fix’ which is still available today in Modern Greece. (5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU9IA_k0LnM But we are missing the most important aspect of German manufacturing in modern Greece....the German made term 'Hellenism'. Hellenism, which was a term created by the German Johan Gustav Droysen, was the vehicle for expansionism spinning the wheels of the Megali Idea. The nationalist pseudo historian of the time was Constantinos Paparrigopoulos who was trying to put together the myth of an unbroken cultural descendent from ancient Hellas to German Made modern Greece. Unfortunately he faced much criticism from another German, believe it or not, named Jakob Phillip Fallmerayer. Fallmerayer charged that the modern Greeks were not the descendents of the dead ancient race of Hellenes. In his opinion, and rightfully so, the modern inhabitants of Greece were a conglomeration of Slavs and Albanians and whatever else settled in the Balkans. Paparrigopoulos had to not only prove the ‘Megali Idea’ valid, but he also had to prove Fallmerayer wrong. Unfortunately he could not connect the pieces together on his own. In his works previous to the 1850's, ancient Macedonia was a distinct nation not related to the ancient Hellene city-states- 'the Macedonian nation accomplished, in the general history [of civilization], a different mission from that of the Hellenic nation'. (6) Paparrigopoulos was at a cross road. He could not figure out how to by-pass or connect the time through the ages of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great and of the Roman empire, East Roman empire (Byzantine Empire) to modern times. Droysen ultimately gave

Paparrigopolous supposed weighty arguments that the ancient Macedonians were actually ancient Hellenes who supposedly spread Hellenic culture eastward with the reign of Alexander the Great. Droysen inspired in Paparrigopoulos a refined understanding and use of the theoretical principles of German historicism. (7) Through Johan Gustav Droysen the pseudo historian Paparrigopoulos invented the fallacious term ‘Macedonian Hellenism’ and put the pieces together of an unbroken mythological culture that stretched back from millennia’s to modern times. And there we have it. Germans inventing everything neo-Hellenic for the neo-Hellenes. But we are not finished here. There are many more things to bring up about German Made Modern Greece like their Flag, their early German law system, German made libraries, German centralized police, etc. All this modernization and the Germans still had to drag the Greeks, screaming, into the nineteenth century. (8) There is so much more to expose yet you the reader would end up reading a book instead of a 5 minute synopsis. However I will give one more myth a bit of exposure because what I've left out of this equation is that which blends into the myth the ‘continuation’ (German made Hellenism) that every Modern Greek is taught since birth. Every Modern Greek is taught from birth that he or she is the descendent of the dead race of ancient Hellenes. The proof is that they speak the same language (another false conception because the languages of the so called ‘ancient Greeks’ is not even close to the language taught to the Modern Greeks in school which anyone can learn, even someone of a different race and colour). Historian Andrew Baruch Wachtel gives an explanation on where this sort of thinking originated; ‘In the Balkans...nations were created first, thanks to the hard work of a handful of European-oriented men; states for these nations came later. The model for Balkan nation builders therefore was not France, but rather Germany, where intellectuals carefully nurtured a sense of national consciousness well before the existence of a unified state. On the German model, the primary definition of a nation was linguistic: a nation was a nation (and could, therefore, hope for an independent political existence in the form of a state) insofar as its citizens spoke a common language. Although Balkan intellectuals and linguists tended to claim that a given language had already existed from time immemorial and thereby provided the necessary glue for a nation, this was generally not the case. Each putative language was in fact comprised of multiple dialects of equally ill-defined neighboring languages. Because the vernacular had been used for limited purposes since the Ottoman invasion, much work had to be done to transform

these languages into vehicles suitable for a full range of modern administrative, commercial, and cultural purposes.’ (9) And Wachtel gives us a perfect example of how the modern Greeks utilized this German linguistic nation building process by explaining the work of one Grigorios Zalikoglou (most likely a Vlach) who goes on to write that their language is the same as the language of the ancient Hellenes. Wachtel writes; ‘Zalikoglou insists that modern and ancient Greek are the same language, though as the writer of a grammar he must have recognized that there are enormous differences between them. But because he needed linguistic continuity to buttress his claims for the historical continuity of the Greek nation, he overlooked this fact. Although he uses the language of race ('blood descendents'), he excludes anyone who does. Finally, language trumps any other potential marker of national identity - thus a Muslim would be considered Greek if he speaks the language, but a Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christian would not be, even if he could prove direct descent from Plato.’ (10) Of course the rules changed later on with the Vlach Rigas Velenstinlis who asserted that any Orthodox Christian was a Greek. From what we now know we can see the true nature of German Made Modern Greece and how they ultimately manufactured and newly assembled ethnic Greeks before the state Greece was even created. ‘Greece is the most artificial of all artificial nations that resulted from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.’ Yerasimos Kaklamanis (Analysis of Neohellenic Bourgeois Ideology, page 13).

Sources

1, 2- Dream Nation by Stathis Gourgouris pages 86-87. 3- Inventing Greece by David Bien; Journal of Modern Greek Studies -Volume 23, Number 2, October 2005, pp. 217-234. 4- Greece The Modern Sequel from 1821-Present by John S. Koliopoulos and Thanos M. Veremis page 164. 5- The Greek Passion, by Kenneth Young page 159. 6, 7- European historiographical influences upon the young Konstantinos Paparrigopolous, by Ioannis Koubourlis; The Making of Modern Greece, Edited By Roderick Beaton, David Ricks pages 59-60. 8- The Greek Passion, by Kenneth Young pages 158-159. 9, 10- The Balkans in World History, by Andrew Baruch Wachtel pages 77-78. (They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, Rather than truth as the authority.) Gerald Massey, Egyptologist”

By the time I had finished reading what was inside this well folded and crumpled at the edges piece of paper, it was time for me to duck into the Delorean’s trunk. “I told you not to read it now!” exclaimed TrueMacedonian as he gently pushed the trunk shut with one hand while waving at Tito and the rest of the team approaching. “You must be in a good mood this morning,” Tito remarked to TrueMacedonian without saying good morning. “Let’s see how you all hold out through the day today. We are going to Athens, to April 25th, 1947,” remarked Tito as he boarded the Delorean in his usual style. “A bold move,” I thought to myself, which was a shocking understatement because the next day I read the following sad news;

[quote]“Macedonians Executed

ATHENS, April 25 (Reuters) – Twenty guerrillas were shot by a firing squad at Kozani, Western Macedonia, today after being sentenced for alleged membership in a ‘Slav Macedonian armed band’. The organization was accused of autonomist activities in Macedonia. Seven communists were sentenced to death by a court-martial at Mytiline for activities endangering the state. The Greek General Staff has filed an espionage charge against the management of the Athens newspaper Rizospastis, organ of the Greek communist party, which published an alleged top secret army report on the strength and organization of the guerrilla forces in Greece.” [/quote](The New York Times, April 26, 1947) Saddened by the news I had just read, I was wondering if Tito was responsible for the death of all those people. Or perhaps he was only responsible for calling them “Macedonians” and had nothing to do with their deaths? Then I remembered TrueMacedonian’s words that here in “fiction-land” nothing is what it seems. I convinced myself to stop speculating and wait for the team to return. Surely TrueMacedonian will have an explanation for this tragedy. Unfortunately my minutes of wait, turned to hours and no sign of the team. I couldn’t help but wonder if Tito and the team were among those killed. Will I ever see TrueMacedonian again?

Essay 10 - Contested Landscapes

It was late at night the same day when I was suddenly awakened from my sleep inside the Delorean’s trunk from shots being fired. It was Tito and the team returning in haste while being pursued by Greek fascists. The time machine was powered-up in record time and vanished before the Greeks could discover it. When we came back to our own time I could hear Tito fuming and scolding the team, particularly Marty, for not wearing the proper attire of the time. “How stupid could you be, wearing running shoes made in the 1980’s?” I overheard Tito say as the team left the Delorean and departed for the night. With shoes like that, the Greeks must have figured Marty to be some sort of spy. Oh well no matter, the important thing at the moment was the team was back, safe and sound. Just as I was about to open the trunk I heard footsteps quickly approaching. “It is me, TrueMacedonian,” I heard a muffled voice say as the Delorean’s trunk flung open. “Ah, you are a sight for sore eyes,” I said. “I was worried about you guys. What happened?” “Well, we were doing fine until Marty was spotted by a cop and then all hell broke loose,” said TrueMacedonian. “We were late returning because all this time we were being chased and shot at by the police. Lucky for us these idiots were such poor shots they couldn’t even shoot an elephant standing still. None the less it was dangerous and we took our time returning,” explained TrueMacedonian. “But I did not come back to talk about our trip, there are more important things to discuss,” said TrueMacedonian as he searched in his coat pocket for something. “What could be more important?” I asked myself, unaware that I had spoken the words out loud. “I will tell you what is so important as soon as I find it,” said TrueMacedonian as he continued to search through one pocket after another. “We can’t even begin to comprehend what really happened in Greece in the nineteenth century, the kind of disease that was created by a bunch of overzealous Philhellenes,” he said. “This is truly Frankenstein science at its best!” he continued as he pulled out a book and searched for a specific page. “Here, read this,” he said as he handed me the open book.

Here is what I read;

[quote] “A number of scholars have described and analyzed the process of national identity formation following the creation of the Modern Greek nation state and the opposed visions of Hellas and Greece in Greek discourse (Kyriakidou-Nestoros 1978; Herzfeld 1982, 1989; Just 1989). As Herzfeld (1982, 1989) has pointed out, this opposition echoes the tensions between an outward-directed conformity to western powers’ expectations about what modern Greece was to be, and an inward-looking, self-critical collective appraisal. Both visions emerged in response to the regulating discourse formulated by Western political and intellectual powers, a body of representations accumulated from the Renaissance onwards, strongly oriented towards classical antiquity. As central agents in the construction of national cultural identity and the management of Greece’s archeological remains, national scholars took on the additional task of ‘convincing’ skeptical Western onlookers that the new state could fulfill its role as guardian of the heritage of the glorious past, thus claiming indigenous control over the idea of Greece and its identity. The management and landscaping of monumental sites provided striking instances of interventions by the apparatus of modernity that work on the multiple layers of meaning inscribed onto landscapes through time, striving to rearrange these living palimpsests in ways that are deemed appropriate to the national project. And the Hellenic-centered ‘Purist’ vision (Greece as Hellas) held a key position in the discourses of the agents involved in such interventions. When Athens was chosen as the site of the modern capital of the new nation, and its (re)construction was planned along lines of its purity, the unsettling evidence of Greece’s Ottoman heritage along with local vernacular forms had to be confronted, all the more so when situated in the immediate vicinity of remains of classical antiquity. Early nineteenth-century Athens was viewed as a ‘disgraceful sight’ (Boyer 1996: 163) full of imperfections, ranging from the city’s physical aspects to the spoken language, (2) that called for ‘filtering out’ interventions. In the midst of this process, a group of rural immigrants employed – and this is one of the ironies of this story – in the neoclassical-inspired reconstruction of the capital proceeded from the 1860’s onward to build themselves a cluster of small houses just under the Acropolis of Athens. By the end of the nineteenth century their settlement, the Anafiotika, formed a permanent presence on the northeast slope of the sacred rock. (2) Herzfeld (1989: 101, 22) explicitly links the language question to other forms such as architecture, music, dress, gesture, moral values, seeing them as domains where the issue of the double image of Greek

culture origins is played out.” [/quote](“Contested Landscapes Movement, Exile and Place”, edited by Barbara Bender and Margot Winer, page 23.) “Read it again then perhaps you will truly begin to understand what happened there. It boggles the mind; most people cannot comprehend it and dismiss it as crockery, but crockery it is not! Modern Greece is truly artificial, perhaps the most artificial nation in the world; a well kept secret!” said TrueMacedonian as I stood there stunned, in disbelief. I read the page again, as TrueMacedonian had suggested, and found new meaning in what was said. It was unbelievable! “I myself am a product of this ‘new Greek creation’,” I said “being born in Greece and being indoctrinated into the Hellenic ideal from youth. But I would never have guessed that Greece was fake and that the lies were so deeply entrenched, especially down south in what we from the north call Greece proper,” I continued. “In northern Greece, where I was born, which should be referred to as ‘Greek occupied Macedonia’, we slid along calling ourselves ‘Greeks’ without questioning its meaning. To us, the so-called ‘Greek identity’ was as solid as a sphere made of solid steel; impregnable and untouchable. In Greek occupied Macedonia however it was different. We called ourselves Greeks because it was the safest thing to do but in private we couldn’t understand how we could be Greeks when none of us were really Greeks. It was comical! A couple of our neighbours, when inebriated and unable to keep their pants up, were the only ones boasting in public about how ‘Greek’ they were and how ‘Greek’ blood flowed through their patriotic veins; the same blood that flowed in Pericles and Plato. To us these were the real Greeks of the north, a bunch of idiots! And when the Bulgars had occupied our village these same idiots were then the most patriotic Bulgars calling themselves the true sons of the Khans. But this was Macedonia where we knew we were not Greeks or Bulgarians, but we had no idea it was the same all the way down to the tip of the Peloponnesus. We thought those who lived in the Peloponnesus were really true Greeks. But as it turns out, we were very wrong!” I said as I again read the page in disbelief. “So there you have it!” said TrueMacedonian, “but you ain’t seen nothin yet! There are hundreds of books like this one where the truth is separated from fiction and what happened and the madness that took place in the nineteen century is exposed! Now these neo-Greek ‘lost souls’ have become our teachers and baptizers, telling us who we are and what to call ourselves! How insane!” said TrueMacedonian and after a long pause he declared he was very tired and wanted to go home and get some sleep.

“Tito will be on my case all day tomorrow if I don’t look and act sharp, so I need to go home and get some sleep. See you early tomorrow morning,” were TrueMacedonian’s last words before he departed for the evening. It was time for me to go home too. It was very late at night and would probably take me forever to fall asleep, pondering the shocking things I had just learned today.

Essay 11 – Greece Executes Macedonians

The next morning I was first to arrive at the usual hiding place. It was early in the morning and I was happy to witness the first rays of the sun burning their way through the low fog on the distant horizon. It doesn’t matter how many times I have witnessed the crack of dawn, each experience is unique and has its special magical moments. I didn’t get any sleep all through the night as I pondered how in God’s name could a few people in the world have pulled off such a scam as to convince the rest of the world that Greece was populated by Greeks who were supposedly the true descendants of the Ancient Greeks, when none of this was true? Then blinded by my gaze at the first rays of the rising sun, I overheard a familiar voice behind me saying, “I knew I would find you here. I too could not sleep thinking of the damage some people have done to us by this artificial creation of Modern Greece.” I said, “Dobro utro TrueMacedonian, it’s nice to see you too.” It was almost as if the two of us were sharing the same thoughts subconsciously. We both skipped the pleasantries and got down to serious discussions about the business that was worrying us both. “If there are indeed hundreds of books, as you pointed out, that speak of the truth about the Modern Greeks, and I have no reason to doubt you, then why have so many modern historians missed the point about who the Modern Greeks truly are?” I asked. “Modern Greeks today would argue that over 250 classical scientists can’t all be wrong,” responded TrueMacedonian “but to understand how this could be I will use the ‘flat earth’ analogy to explain the situation which often helps me understand why things are the way they are.” “A long, long time ago people believed the earth was flat. There was plenty of evidence to suggest and support that theory so naturally word got around and everyone started believing that the earth was flat. But as mathematics, science and technology became more and more sophisticated, some people, a small minority mind you, began to see the earth in a different light. Eventually some got enough nerve to speak up about it and even dared to contradict the majority who supposedly ‘knew for a fact’ that the earth was flat. I can almost hear the counter arguments made by the mainstream scientists to the ‘preposterous’ claims of these ‘heretics’ that the earth was anything but flat. ‘Why if the earth was round, as my esteemed colleague claims, wouldn’t we all be falling off it? Then how do you explain the fact that to this day no one has fallen off it?’ In those days they burned alive those who spoke contrary to what was believed to be ‘the truth’. Of course today we

know the earth is round and what the majority in those days believed was actually a lie. But the difference between the ‘flat earth’ theory and the theory of the Modern Greeks being direct descendants of the ancient Greeks is that people did not know enough about the earth to know that it was not flat. On the other hand people did have enough evidence to prove that the Modern Greeks were not even remotely related to the ancient Greeks, yet they chose to ignore that evidence and instead purposely propagated a lie! A lie that was repeated so may times it became far stronger than the truth” continued TrueMacedonian as I listened intensely to every word he said. “Why should modern historians write about the Greek ugly dark truth and risk being ridiculed and ostracized when they can write about the bright shining glaring lie and be praised. There is much to think about here and as the evidence against this ‘Greek theory’ mounts, history will be reexamined and revolutionized but not before we expose it all. If the Modern Greeks are a lie, then how many more lies have there been perpetrated to give support to the original lie? Could the idea that the ancient Macedonians were Greeks also be another big Greek lie? Of course it is! The only reason Modern Greeks make that claim is so that they can also lay claim to the Macedonian heritage and rob the Macedonians of it. If the Modern Greeks are a mongrel race not at all related to the ancient Greeks, then ask yourself, what chances are there of them being related to the ancient Macedonians, who were a totally different people from the so-called ancient Greeks? I would say none whatsoever! Today’s Greeks are not at all what they say they are. They are nothing but a hodge-podge of modern Balkanites who lost their true identities and now go on pretending to be the direct descendents of the ancient people who died on those lands two and a half millenniums ago. Not knowing who they are themselves they now have the nerve to tell us who we are and who we are not!” continued TrueMacedonian. “So, what are we racking our brains to prove here?” I dared ask. “If you wish to view the problem from a purely scientific point of view then ‘why must we continue to believe in lies when we know the truth’? Why protect this ‘lie’ perpetrated a long time ago when we have evidence to put it to rest? Why must we pretend that the ‘earth is flat’ when we all know it is not?” asked TrueMacedonian with a serious tone in his voice. “If you wish to view the problem from ‘the Macedonian point of view’ then as Macedonians with much to lose why must we keep silent about the truth? We lost our lands, our homes, our language, our culture to the Greeks and now they deny our identity. They publicly and to our face say we don’t exist. Is it not our duty to speak up? Is it not in our personal and national interest to expose the Greeks and their fake

identity? Only by shouting the truth can we expose the lies and injustices perpetrated against us, not only by the fake-Greeks but also by their supporters,” continued TrueMacedonian, unaware of the passing of time evident by the distance the sun had risen above the horizon. “The fake-Greeks have used history against us, a history that does not belong to them, and have for a century now got away with it. It is time to expose these fake-Greeks and what they stand for. It’s time to expose the acts and atrocities they perpetrated against us in the name of Hellenism, something that does not even belong to them, acts committed against us purely for their personal benefit!” said TrueMacedonian as he gestured for me to disappear into the Delorean’s trunk when he saw Tito and the others appear at the edge of the bushes. “Look alive men, we are going back to Athens, to June 7th, 1947,” were the only words Tito uttered that morning as Doc powered up the Delorean’s engines and Marty and TrueMacedonian hopped aboard in the back seat. No sooner had Tito slammed the door shut than the Delorean was on its way to Athens. “Back to Athens eh? I guess they still have unfinished business there,” I thought to myself.

The next day the following story appeared;

[quote]“Greece Executes 8 Macedonians

ATHENS. June 7 (Reuthers) – Eight Macedonian civilians sentenced to death by a court-martial on charges of plotting to separate Macedonia from Greece were shot at Salonika today. They were said to have been members of a ‘terroristic’ Slav organization.” [/quote](The New York Times, June 8, 1947). Again, it was a sad story for the Macedonian people not only because these people died but also because they died in vain to fulfill some sick Greek fantasy that Macedonians actually had the capability to “separate” Macedonia from Greece? If Macedonia is Greek and always has been Greek and the Macedonians are Greeks and always have been Greeks as the Modern Greeks claim at every chance they get, then why would the Macedonians want to separate Macedonia from Greece? It’s a simple and straight foreword question! Could it be “Greek anxiety” causing this Greek paranoia? Could it be because these fake-Greeks actually stole Macedonia from the Macedonians and are now afraid that the Macedonians may want it back? As I asked myself question after question, deep in my thoughts, Tito and the team had already returned and had gone off to the next

mission. I only remembered this because my subconscious mind was working overtime repeating the words “Athens, July 28, 1896” to my conscious mind. The team was already gone to the next mission before I fully awakened from my dream-like stupor. Did I imagine all this? Just to be sure, I went straight to the New York Times, July 29th, 1896. Lately Tito was targeting the New York Times so it was a safe bet to start with that paper. As I found out, I was not disappointed.

Here is what it said;

[quote] “CHRISTIAN VILLAGES BURNED.

Greece Notified that She Must Not Assist the Macedonians.

LONDON. July 28. – The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from its Athens correspondent stating that the Mussulmans have burned twelve Christian villages in the province of Selino and Herakleon and desecrated many churches. The Standard will to-morrow publish a dispatch from its correspondent in Berlin saying that the powers have notified Greece that they will withdraw all support from her if she continues to patronize or assist the insurgents in Macedonia.” [/quote] (New York Times, July 29, 1896) Did they mean “ethnic” or “geographical” Macedonians? It is so confusing to understand “Greek logic” especially when it comes out of the fake-Greeks in Athens. The team was back, preparing for its next mission when I overheard Tito mumble the words, “We are going to Athens again to March 4th, 1897.” Tito mumbling? What’s wrong with the guy? Is he getting overtired from lack of sleep? Oh well, it’s the team’s last mission of the day and then we will all get to go home and get some rest. The team was back and gone home in a flash as I looked for the next day’s paper. Here is what I found;

[quote] “GREECE READY FOR WAR.

She will yield to no admonition from the powers.

PARIS. March 4. – It is reported that the Government is making preparations to order the mobilization of the Mediterranean reserve squadron, which will be sent to the Levant, under command of admiral Humann.

Le Jour publishes a dispatch from its correspondent at Athens containing a report of an interview with King George of Greece, in which his Majesty declares that Greece is ready for war with Turkey, and would yield to no admonition from the powers. The King is reported to have added that the powers might blockade Greece, but in the interior they would be powerless. The Greeks, he said, were fully prepared to fight to the death, and the Macedonians were eager to revolt.” [/quote] (New York Times, March 5, 1897). Tito, it must be nice to manipulate the media in such a way! Revolt, revolt! Who is revolting, the “ethnic” or “geographical” Macedonians? Let the fake-Greeks explain this! By now I too was very tired and it was time for me to also go home.

Essay 12 – GREEKS BETRAY MACEDONIANS

Anxious to meet up with TrueMacedonian, I arrived early at the usual place the next morning only to find Tito pacing back and forth, looking at his watch and swearing and cursing. “Where are they? I told them to come earlier,” he kept repeating. With Tito there what was I to do? How could I board the Delorean unseen? After pondering my situation for a while, it occurred to me that I should somehow distract Tito and then board the Delorean before the others arrive. But how could I do that? As I slowly snuck through the woodland and came as close to the Delorean as possible without being seen, it occurred to me to throw a rock behind the bushes. When Tito turned around and went to investigate the noise, I quickly snuck into the trunk and quietly closed the hatch behind me. And just in time too because as the others arrived I overheard Tito scolding them for being late. “There’ll be more about this later,” he said “I don’t have time to deal with you now. We are going to Constantinople, to March 13th, 1897,” were Tito’s orders as the time machine swished its way to the next destination. The next day I discovered the following piece in The New York Times;

[quote] “MACEDONIANS AND TURKS FIGHT

LONDON, March 13. – A dispatch from Constantinople states that fighting has occurred near Gravena between a number of Macedonian insurgents and a body of Turkish troops. Details of the fight are lacking.” [/quote] (New York Times, March 14, 1897) No sooner had the team left than they were back again and according to Tito’s instructions were going to Constantinople again but this time to May 11, 1901. It must be nice, I thought to myself, to be able to plant seeds and see the fruits grow in a matter of minutes. Isn’t time travel wonderful? The next day I checked the New York Times and discovered the following;

[quote] “Wholesale Execution of Macedonians.