CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

THE FACT IS: Since Greece was created in 1828, it has been under Western Power influence: mainly England and later America and NATO. The action taken to create NOF, AFZH and NOMS in Skopje on April 23, 1945 by the CPM/CPY and the decision to mobilize the Macedonian villager to rise up in a false revolution and be wiped out by the modern Greek government army, was not a simple tragedy, it is more than that, it was perpetrated through the worst kind of deception. In the beginning people were convinced by false propaganda that “Communist Yugoslavia was the centre of all revolutions in the Balkans” and that “the Macedonian Question was a Yugoslav Question”.

It was under these conditions that a definitive death sentence was passed on to us Macedonians formulated as “The Final Solution to the Macedonian Question.” In other words the architects of our demise wanted us gone: “Kill and expel the entire Macedonian nation! And those expelled would never be allowed to return to their centuries-old ancestral habitat.” At all times they would be under threat and under ideological surveillance. To keep them silent and on the defensive they would be confronted with issues such as:

- Are you a friend or an enemy? - Are you for or against the Informburo? - Are you for Stalin or for Tito? - Are you for the EU or against Greece? - Are you for the constitutional name or for the official language?

But we the Macedonians who live in Greece know very well and remember that we were not allowed to speak Macedonian at all in public. We only spoke Macedonian at home and in secret.

Future Macedonian generations must know this and should openly be told!

FACT NO. 1

On May 5, 1949, Maclean met with Tito in Belgrade. Maclean, at the behest of the British government, demanded from Tito

guarantees for a decisive Yugoslav turn (stop supporting) on DAG, in return for economic aid from Western countries. Tito assured Maclean that Yugoslavia had helped DAG in the past, but stressed that the situation had already changed. However, Tito could not refuse to grant asylum to the refugees from Greece, who were barred from returning to their formations. Tito vowed that in the future no Greek fugitive would be allowed to re-enter DAG and would not help the partisans. Tito asked Maclean not to disclose this information to anyone except to the Americans because this kind of thing would expose the British and their promise. (Maclean was head of the British Military Mission at NOV and POJ General Headquarters)

FACT. NO. 2

OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF NOF AS A SPY RING AND WITH THAT A NOOSE WAS PLACED AROUND OUR NECK

At the initiative of CPG Central Committee Secretary Nikos Zahariadis, a meeting was held in the cave between the villages Vineni and Orovo in Prespa Region during which Zahariadis made the following statement: “NOF is an organization of foreign agents that have obstructed the CPG line and disrupted and harmed the democratic movement in this country. There are three agencies which are still active and have roots in Aegean Macedonia, OZNA, JA and Kolishevski who controls the first two agencies. All agents of the Yugoslav agencies committed themselves in writing that they would execute their obligations...” Addressing the Macedonians Zahariadis said: “The CPG wants to help and save you. End all relations with the CPY and cleanse yourselves of its ideology... There was a time when Macedonians acted as a faction in the CPG at a time when Tito wanted to rob Macedonia of Solun. Which of you was sent to Greece by the CPY to serve that interest, to clear the matter and pay the bills? If Tito joins Macedonia to Yugoslavia, it means incorporating it into imperialism. You need to be clear on that. Tito has been sending OZNA and JA agents organized in troika since 1945.

15.

ADDRESS TO THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE: SPIRO MAVROVSKI’S OPINION AND COMMENTARY ON STOIAN KOCHOV’S BOOK

First of all let me say that my role in the preparation of this book was to provide proofreading, confirmation of certain data, translating material from Serbian sources to Macedonian and making sure the material is clear and readable to all audiences, young and old.

My views on the subject of the Greek Civil War are very close to those of Stoian Kochov’s and that was the main reason why I became engaged in it. The material that Stoian has covered is familiar to me since I too am a product of the generation that was deeply involved in that war. My parents, who unfortunately are now both deceased, were directly involved in that conflict. My father Risto Skavrev Mavrovski from the village Zhelevo was a fighter and my mother Sofia Gumarova Rossi from the village Pozvishcha was a child refugee. As a DAG fighter my father was wounded three times. As an honoured people’s hero and as a war veteran, on the third time he was wounded he was taken by boat from Albania to hospital 250 in Poland. My mother as a child refugee first landed in Kalimanesti, Romania and then was taken to Zgorzelec, Poland where she met my father, got married and I was born. I was born on April 9, 1957, in Zvidnitsa. Four months later my parents brought me to the Republic of Macedonia. We all passed through Idrizovo Prison, of course, and from there we were sent to Bitola. I have written a book about all this. It is dedicated to my father and was written based on the notes he left me and on my own research. The book is called “A story told about a person from Zhelevo - A book about Risto Mavrovski”. So far I have been lucky to have read all of Stoian Kochov’s books. I came to recognize Stoian as someone who tells our story very differently from what I have read from other authors and from our official history. In time as I read more and more of his books things became clearer and clearer. Unfortunately, what I found out is that things that are taking place in Macedonia today have already taken place before and we have paid for it with many human lives, and now, with great sorrow, we are paying for it with the sale of our identity (name of our country, Macedonian identity, Macedonian language, etc.)… After many discussions with Stoian Kochov I came to the conclusion that he has taken the right path to reclaiming our past and I wholeheartedly agree with him that our true history must be freed. It would be most unfortunate to leave our history in the hands of forgers whose only aim is to protect those who did us harm. So, I see this as the beginning of a great collaboration and I hope it lasts a long time. I wish Stoian Kochov good health and a long life.