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Dismantling the Greek Myth

A Collection of essays

By Risto Stefov

Dismantling the Greek Myth A Collection of Essays

Index Index.............................................................................................3 Preface ..........................................................................................5 Introduction...................................................................................7 Essay 1 – Who are the Modern Greeks?.....................................12 Essay 2 – Who are the Greeks - A Macedonian Perspective......16 Essay 3 - Where did modern Greeks come from?......................21 Essay 4 - Why Greece and not Arvanitovlachia?.......................27 Essay 5 - Why did the Europeans need a Greece?......................32 Essay 6 – On the way to Hellenism............................................37 Essay 7 - The Greek President is Albanian!...............................42 Essay 8 - What do you really mean when you say you are “Greek”?.....................................................................................45 Essay 9 - Once a Greek Always a Greek....................................52 Essay 10 - Greek by Politics.......................................................62 Essay 11 - Twenty Authors can't all be wrong!..........................69 Essay 12 - Modern Greece according to David Holden.............75 Essay 13 - G. A. Henty on 19th century Greece and the Modern Greeks.........................................................................................79 Essay 14 - Connecting the Past with the Present........................82 Essay 15 – Language Religion and Identity...............................88 Essay 16 - Why expose the Greek Fraud?..................................93 Essay 17 - The curse of Hellenism.............................................99 Essay 18 - How Macedonians were made into Greeks, Serbians and Bulgarians!.........................................................................104 Essay 19 – Is there a Misunderstanding?..................................117 Essay 20 – What is Greece up to? ............................................122 Essay 21 – My personal Opinion..............................................126 Essay 22 – More questions.......................................................131 Essay 23 – On to Macedonia....................................................136 Essay 24 – Education................................................................141 Essay 25 – Assimilation............................................................148 Essay 26 - Greeks by Birth? What’s that all about?.................155 Essay 27 - Fifty authors can’t still all be wrong!......................159 Essay 28 – The Macedonian Party?..........................................170 Essay 29 – Baiting the Trap......................................................176 Essay 30 – The Greek Macedonians.........................................181 Essay 31 – The Need for Intelligence Gathering......................187 Essay 32 - The Walls are closing in..........................................191 Essay 33 – Reacting to Rumours..............................................196 Essay 34 – The Unconvinced ...................................................204 Essay 35 – Time to Stand Up ...................................................212 Essay 36 – Twenty-five more authors......................................216 Essay 37 – My fascination with Greeks?..................................224 Essay 38 – Who writes my books?...........................................231 Essay 39 – Ilinden 1903............................................................236 Essay 40 - Why Greece can’t have minorities! ........................245 Essay 41 - Greece is not the Cradle of Democracy..................251 Essay 42 - Some Modern Greeks today believe there is one story to Greece, their own story.........................................................256 Essay 43 - Is Greece forgetting something?.............................261 Essay 44 - After two centuries of living a myth Greece now faces reality........................................................................................268 Essay 45 - Greeks and Identity theft.........................................273 Essay 46 - Assimilation of Macedonians Continues ................279 Essay 47 - Cause of Greek Fears and Paranoia........................285 Essay 48 - Greece is one of the worst human rights violators in the world...................................................................................289 Essay 49 - Falsity of Greece vs Reality of Macedonia.............297 Essay 50 - Getting to know thy Greece....................................302 Essay 51 - Greece is plugged in the Matrix..............................307 Essay 52 - According to the Greeks Tito was either a god or a magician....................................................................................310 Essay 53 - The West we Trust?

................................................315 Essay 54 - What’s Europe’s Problem with Macedonia? ..........320 Conclusion................................................................................334