ORDERS FROM FOREIGN GODS - Part 04

2. Koreshtata Region A. D’mbeni District ….................... 9 villages B. Drenoveni District …................ 14 villages C. Tiolishta District …................... 14 villages

3. Poleto Region A. Zhupanshta District ................... 12 villages B. Rupishta District ........................ 10 villages C. Kastenariata District ….............. 18 villages D. Kalevishta Sub District ................ 5 villages

Lerin Constituency

1. Lerin Region A. Buf District ………..................... 13 villages B. Kotor District ……...................... 15 villages C. Banski District ……...................... 6 villages D Ovchareni District …..................... 9 villages E. Turie District ……......................... 6 villages

2. Sovichko Kailarsko Region A. Ekshi-su District ……..................... 5 villages B. Aitos District ………....................... 8 villages C. Mokreni District …….................... 16 villages

Voden Constituency

1. Meglen Region A. Krontselevo District ……............... 13 villages B. Sobotsko District …….................... 11 villages

2. Ostrovo Region A. Ostrovo District ……….................... 7 villages B. Mesimer District ……..................... 11 villages C. Tsrno Marinovo District …................ 8 villages

According to the report, the meetings with the villagers were held in January. Most villages accepted the NOF Line and were fighting under NOF leadership. The report also cited exactly how many people belonged to each of these organizations. The figures were striking and gave an accurate picture of how many Macedonians had fallen under the influence of these organizations. There are also other details.

For the organizational leadership,

Secretary, S.R.

Unfortunately such a report has yet to be written in the annals of our history!

1. If NOF was politically a Macedonian organization, it should have asked itself: “What concessions can be made to the CPG in order to avoid doing damage to the Macedonian people and to the Macedonian National plan? There is also this other thing: “If NOF was created by the CPM/CPY, and we know it was, and then the CPM/CPY gave (sold out) NOF to the CPG, then what were its political objectives?!!! Unfortunately only they, the CPY and the CPG, the organizations that pulled NOF’s strings knew for sure!

But the CPY and the CPG found themselves an elite, pliable and obedient entity in NOF which they could easily manipulate and which was capable of mobilizing the Macedonian people without making them aware that they were being bated! I don’t think and I don’t want to believe that NOF and AFZH deliberately did this to the Macedonian people.

And so we placed our hopes in the CPG’s hands and we found ourselves wearing DAG uniforms. And in the end we earned what? Our children running around the world all alone, our families broken and our ancestral properties left behind and lost forever…? In other words, we earned our “genocide”.

7.0 The third fateful year 1947 – Total mobilization under CPG leadership

Notable events in 1947

February 12, 1947 – The UK government informed the U.S. government that, for economic reasons, as of March 31, 1947 it would stop helping Greece. The U.S. government agreed that it must inherit Great Britain’s role in Greece because otherwise Greece would inevitably fall under Russian influence.

February 20, 1947 – The U.S. and Greek governments signed an agreement in Athens. The U.S. government pledged to help Greece and as a result began to exercise American dominance over Greece, pushing the UK to the side.

February 24, 1947 – The King of Greece and the Greek government publicly called on DAG fighters to surrender. They were given a deadline up to March 15, 1947. If they were to surrender before the March 15th deadline their offenses committed against the State and against the people would be absolved and they could return to their homes.

March 1, 1947 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced the decision to proclaim the “Truman Doctrine” (40) for engaging the U.S. in Greece. Greece was granted credit and advanced military equipment to equip its government army. At the same time Van Fleet, an American General anti-guerrilla specialist, was made available to the Greek government.

With Van Fleet’s strategy and tactics applied in the last battles fought in the Vicho and Gramos battlefields, DAG was defeated and ejected outside of Greece.

May 16, 1947 - The radio station “Free Greece” was installed in Belgrade and began broadcasting.

September 15, 1947 - From September 15 to 17, 1947, the CPG 3rd Plenum was held during which military issues were discussed. The slogan: “All to arms and everything for victory!” was coined during this Plenum. It was also decided to create a free territory in Kozheni plateau, which was surrounded by the mountain Massifs of Pindus, Pieria, Karakamen, Kaimakchalan and Vicho.

September 27, 1947 – DAG Headquarters ordered the mobilization of all men between the ages of 17 to 35. With much intensity, over the course of 4 to 9 months, the Macedonian political refugees who had fled to Yugoslavia and were living in Skopje, Veles, Shtip and Bitola were also mobilized into DAG and shipped from Yugoslavia to the front in Greece in trucks covered with tarps during the night. (See: F.M INI SK.4-271/60 p.73-76).

Up to January 1, 1948 – Yugoslavia provided military equipment and assistance to DAG (See: List of equipment in the book “The Macedonians and CPY-CPG relations, 1945-1949”, p. 263 by Dr. Risto Kirazovski), “Review of military equipment and other material assistance provided for DAG”.

New strategic CPG goals

February 1947 - The CPG leadership decided to change DAG’s strategic goals from struggling against the Athenian regime for a peaceful solution to the Greek internal issues, to struggling to overthrow the government regime and take its place. The Athens government reacted promptly and with severity, passing a series of laws in the Greek Parliament including some to return the king.

February 14, 1947 - G. Marshal from the U.S. Department of External Affairs said that the U.S. government was satisfied with the changes that the Greek government had made and it was in the interest of the U.S. and of all the United Nations, for Greece to receive aid to maintain its independence and territorial sovereignty. (See: Department of State Bulletin, 23. 2. 1947, 341). With his statement, G. Marshall initiated the process for Greece to receive American aid.

February 17, 1948 - U.S. President Truman, in his monthly report to Congress, warned that: “Should the need arise, we are ready to provide even more comprehensive assistance to Greece.”

February 24, 1947 – The Greek King and the Greek government publicly called on DAG fighters to surrender. They were given a deadline up to March 15, 1947 to surrender without any penalties. If they surrendered before this deadline they would be allowed to return home.

March 12, 1947 - Both the United States and the United Kingdom were determined, at all costs, to prevent the Greek communists from taking power in Greece, which resulted in American intervention in Greece as per the famous “Truman Doctrine” of March 12, 1947. Truman’s doctrine clearly warned Stalin not to hope for success in Greece. Greece in the meantime, was receiving unrestricted aid, first through the Truman doctrine and later through the Marshal plan, which allowed it to create a large and modern army, trained to fight and defeat DAG.

Given U.S. involvement and its level of commitment in Greece, how much could the Macedonians have achieved in this pointless ideological struggle? Besides pushing themselves down a relentlessly slippery and dangerous slope, as they did, how much could the Macedonians have done against such odds? Perhaps we can learn something from NOF’s latest position and from a DAG Supreme Headquarters memorandum to the United Nations Inquiry Committee, which reads: