OUR TRUTH

OUR TRUTH

Research has shown that we Macedonians, especially during the Greek Civil War, as a people, have not broken free from our expectations that we need to depend on others to help us, i.e. on foreigners, communist parties, the Americans, etc., especially on those who do not agree with our values. We have not yet learned to depend on ourselves, to harness our own power, and to go forward on our own two feet. As a result we continue to fall into traps and to (self) sacrifice and die with a faint hope in illusions.

So why is this happening to us Macedonians? Why do they walk into traps that lead us to the noose? Events that took place, even before the Greek Civil War had started, have shown that the activist propaganda for Macedonian mass participation in a conflict, encouraged by the CPY/CPM, through NOF and AFZH, destroyed us and forced those who survived out of our homeland.

This is the truth and this is how history needs to be written.

After the war, the political left’s position was:

In May 1987, during a Congress, it was decided to hold a press conference to deny the existence of Macedonians living within today’s Greek borders. The press conference was held in Solun in September 1988 during which Greek and foreign journalists were invited and during which CPG General Secretary Harilaos Florakis openly said: “On this occasion I want to say that for us, for our Party, the Macedonian minority does not exist!” He said this to a question asked by journalist, Florakis from “Mesimvini”. (See: “Vecher”, November 5, 1988, p. 9.)

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I can still remember, like it was yesterday, when a comrade in arms and son of a Macedonian Kostur counter-band fighter who had been ruthlessly liquidated, said to me: “The truth is the ‘Kostur Committee’ failed to create paradise in our (Greek occupied) Macedonia but why did NOF and AFZH have to create hell?”

There are many hidden secrets regarding the genocide in Greek occupied Macedonia in the CPM/CPY. For example what were the CPY, Tito, Kolishevski and Mitrevski’s true motives for creating NOF, AFZH and NOMS in Skopje on April 23, 1945? That was the time when the noose was placed around our necks.

We all know that Macedonia was divided in 1913 with Great Power consent. We know that two parts are still occupied and that one part recovered first as a federal republic and later was an independent state. Unfortunately for us Greece and its patrons the Great Powers

do not want any part of Macedonia to survive and therefore are doing everything to destroy it.

And this is why the Greek Civil War ended with genocide perpetrated against the Macedonian people.

In other words, nothing has changed since 1913 with regards to the Greek attitude towards the Macedonian people. So, what happened during the Greek Civil War and what is happening today, i.e. Macedonia’s name, identity and language, is part of the Greek long-term policy to get rid of everything Macedonian. Greece may pretend that its main motive for concluding the Interim Accord with Macedonia was for alleged security threats, but it is not. Greece’s real motive is to get rid of the Macedonian question by getting rid of the Macedonian people once and for all. What is most unfortunate about all this is that the Republic of Macedonia accepted Greece’s bogus reasons as relevant and made changes to its constitution to give up its care for the Macedonian people living in Greece; it also changed its flag, agreed to a new provisional name, and in return demanded that Greece not interfere with its international membership. And what did these concessions do for Macedonia? Nothing! They were not even recognized by Greece or accepted by the Greek parliament. Why? Because Greece is not interested in concessions, its main goal is to get rid of us Macedonians and everything that is Macedonian.

I could stop here and leave the reader to find their own explanation as to why this is happening to us. But I will not. I will give the reader more evidence: facts and arguments which will shed light on why we lost our ancestral lands, why we were left to roam the world as permanent refugees, why we have to fight for our own identity, and why we have been fed a bogus history.

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