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Ideological Activism: Macedonians Under Greece

LET US FOLLOW THE FACE AND BACK OF THE POLITICAL MESSAGE

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LET US FOLLOW THE FACE AND BACK OF THE POLITICAL MESSAGE

1. When Kolishevski was instructing the leadership of NOF and AFZH, before they returned to Greek occupied Macedonia, he said: “Now you need to trust and pay attention to the Greek communists!”

2. Before returning, Uzunov – Abas gave them his guarantee when he said: “Yugoslavia is standing behind you!”

So, in a swoop, the Macedonian organizations and their leaderships were passed on from one foster family to another, from the CPY to the CPG, from Tito and Kolishevski to Zahariadis and Markos. And why were the Macedonian organizations sent to Greek occupied Macedonia, at this point in time, when all wars had ended, the world was divided into spheres of influence and an international border ran right through historic Macedonia? They were sent there to start a new war of course, with the Macedonians being the main actors in it! And why? To reunite Macedonia of course; that’s what they were told! Why else would Macedonians be participating in something so bizarre except for a chance at re-uniting their beloved Macedonia, something they had wanted to do for many centuries…? Surely the architects of such an act must have known very well that re-uniting Macedonia at this point in time was not only impossible but the way the US was behaving over this matter, it was suicide. The US was prepared to start World War III to keep Greece, including Greek occupied Macedonia, under its influence and both Tito and Stalin

knew that! So why then did they push the Macedonian people into a suicidal war at this point in time? If the Macedonians were not going to reunite Macedonia because it was impossible to do so and we know very well the west would not have allowed the communists to form a government in Greece, and as a result the Macedonians were not going to get any human rights, then why push the Macedonian people into this war? There is only one answer that I can offer you that makes any sense; the Macedonians were made the sacrificial lambs in this war because they were put in a situation from which there was no way out except to die or leave their homeland; which is exactly what happened and which is exactly in line with Greece’s long term objectives; to get rid of the Macedonian people from Greek occupied Macedonia!

The hard question to ask here is: “Do we the Macedonians in, or originating from, Greek occupied Macedonia know the truth about ourselves and what happened to us in the best and worst of times and how we were played and are still being played to serve foreign interests? Do we really know that we experienced genocides several times while we were and still are under Greek occupation? Did we and do we know that our part of Macedonia that was invaded, occupied and annexed by Greece is still under occupation? Do we really know that we, as Macedonians, have no human rights in Greece and, in Greece’s eyes, we do not exist? The questions you are reading here have rarely been asked before and our horrible experiences have been kept “secret” for three quarters of a century. Do you know why? Because these genocides and other acts of horror, perpetrated against the Macedonian people from Greek occupied Macedonia, were perpetrated and witnessed by people who were and still are in power and they don’t want these secrets to come out! The Greeks were the instrument or the hand that perpetrated these acts while the rest of the world, including powerful people that could have done something, watched and said or did nothing! After all that has been said and done, not only in those days but even today when Greece makes claims that Macedonians don’t exist, how does the world react? It takes Greece’s side! Why? The United Nations has even breached its own laws and sacred international law to not allow Macedonia to become a member of this international organization by its rightful name! Why is that? Is it because Greece is so “mighty and powerful” and that it has influence over the entire

world, including the UN Security council and over countries like Russia, China, the U.S., Britain and France? Do you think so? Of course not! Greece is just another pawn of the Great Powers who is told what to do and what not to do! Greece is only the instigator… the rest is done by the Great Powers… who decide who lives and who dies… Look around and think about it!

Unfortunately, for most of us who are victims of these atrocities, it took more than 70 years to dig through the rubble and find the bare naked truth… that our predecessors in SNOF, SNOV, NOF, AFZH, NOMS, etc., have been played… played to push the Macedonian people into a suicidal mission of no return. That is why we are now cast away from our grandfather’s hearth and live in foreign lands with no hope of ever returning, not even for a visit to light a candle at our ancestor’s graves.

We have already demonstrated that those personalities from the CPY and the CPM who advised the Macedonian leaders to return and start a war in Greek occupied Macedonia already knew that the world was divided into spheres of influence and that Greece, with its current border which included Greek occupied Macedonia, was placed under Western Power influence. It is also well-known that even Yugoslavia was 50% under Western influence. So in essence, as has been shown, CPY policy was twisted to help Western interests, which included the eradication of the Macedonian presence in Greek occupied Macedonia.

Allow us to give you an overview of the situation. Greece had always been lying to its patrons, particularly to Britain about its ethnic composition. In the late 1920’s, after all the population exchanges with Turkey and Bulgaria, Greece declared itself a pure Greek nation with 98% of its population being Greek and 2% Muslim Greek. During World War II British spies and military personnel were dispatched in Northern Greece (Greek occupied Macedonia) to monitor the war situation during which time they discovered, contrary to Greek claims, that a sizable Macedonian population, speaking the Macedonian language and aware of its Macedonian consciousness, was living in this territory. The British panicked because they figured if Russia found out then it would want to carve out the Greek territory to accommodate the wishes of

these Macedonians. So Britain decided that the Macedonian people had to go; leave Greek occupied Macedonia. This information was later discovered in declassified British diplomatic dispatches.

British Ambassador to Athens Mr. R.A. Leeper, back in November 1944, toyed with the idea of displacing 120,000 Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia and moving them north of the Greek border. Mr. Leeper suggested this to Mr. Eden, then UK Foreign Minister, in a letter dated November 24, 1944 in which, among other things, he wrote “…and since the amputation of the Slav areas in Western Macedonia and their annexation to a Slav Federation is a practical impossibility and would also be economically disastrous for Greece. It would follow that, difficult as it may be, a home must be found for perhaps 120,000 Slav Macedonians north of the Greek frontiers of 1941.” (5a) (See: FO 371/43649 XP 00201 R 20431/1009/67.)

In doing this the British requested the assistance of the former (fascist) Yugoslav government, before the communists came to power. The British received a positive response from Yugoslavia. The Fascist Yugoslav government in fact agreed to take these Macedonians out of Greece and resettle them on Yugoslav territory. The fascist Yugoslav government, however, fell to the communists before it had a chance to implement the plan. But after the war (WW II) it was difficult to move 120,000 people without causing world attention. So “someone” decided to force them out by other means… by legal means so that there would be no ramifications after the fact. But how? With the CPY/CPM’s cooperation, for sure!

The idea here was to have the Macedonian people raise arms against Greece so that Greece would have “no other choice but to defend itself against an aggressor who wants to carve out parts of its territory”! Yugoslavia, for the sake of having good relations with the West, naturally prepared the groundwork through the creation and indoctrination of NOF and AFZH with aims at starting an armed uprising in Greek occupied Macedonia. The Macedonian people, however, did not want to fight and initially refused to participate. To get them motivated the Greek right, the Fascists, pitched in and initiated what was later termed the “white terror”. Greeks indiscriminately began to kill people and burn properties and homes.

Fearing for their lives many Macedonians fled to the mountains (Vicho and Gramos) where they were armed and trained to protect themselves. And this is how the conflict was started. This was a war that would be fatal to the Macedonian people; it had to be an ideological war in order to involve the international factor (US and Britain); a war that Greece would have no choice but to fight in order to save its territory. This was going to be a legal genocide because these “Slavs” were prepared to carve out Greek territory! The Macedonians were told they needed the guns to protect themselves but as soon as the shooting started they were told they were fighting to “re-unite their Macedonia” and after Yugoslavia abandoned them they were told they were fighting for their human rights to gain equality with the Greeks. Then, when the war became very hot, they were told to fight for their lives; “to fight or die!”

There was no single Macedonian in those days who not only publicly proclaimed that he or she was fighting to re-unite Macedonia but many Macedonians were made to believe that it was possible to do that! And why do you suppose they believed that? Because the architects of this war, through NOV and AFZH, told them so…, naturally through lies and deception!

UDBA (Yugoslav State Security Services) general Jovo Kapichich, who from 1945 to 1948 delivered supplies to the Greek Civil War on behalf of Yugoslavia, would not comment on what Yugoslavia’s interest was in that war and why Yugoslavia, through NOF and AFZH, massively pushed the Macedonian people into this historic suicidal war and why the Macedonian people were later abandoned and left at the mercy of the CPG and the Greeks?

And here we are 65 years later, since the conclusion of the Greek Civil War, and nothing has changed… the social upheaval and bloodshed was for nothing… pointless!!

Because the West had no intention of abandoning Greece or allowing a political change to take place, even at the threat of a Third World War, it was absolutely silly, a stupid notion to think

that a United Macedonia was even possible. If it was then it would have been agreed to at the Conference in Tehran.

I repeat: It was made abundantly clear at the Yalta Conference that the West would not agree to Greece, or any part of it, entering the Eastern Bloc.

As mentioned several times before, the United States was prepared to start World War III to keep Greece under Western Influence! And it seems this was the case up until the Soviet Bloc and Yugoslavia collapsed, and even after the Republic of Macedonia declared its independence… and to this day! The U.S. has, at every opportunity, opposed the Macedonian people by constantly making demands on the Republic of Macedonia; “First the name, then NATO?”, “First the name, then… European Union?” If Greece has a problem with our name then why has the U.S. stepped in to make these demands on its behalf? Does Greece have “that much influence” over the U.S…? Does the U.S. owe favours to Greece? Or does the U.S. itself have a “problem” with us and is using the opportunity Greece has created to deal with them?

We are all infected by Balkan nationalism and we don’t know why! We are all told, by outsiders of course, that we are sick… sick in the mind… But do we know why? Some people want a “Greater Greece” through the “Megali Idea” and feel that all the people in the Balkans are Greeks. Other people want a “Greater Bulgaria” through the “San Stefano” Treaty and believe all people who speak a Slavic language are Bulgarians. Yet another group of people wants a “Greater Albania” only because it has been an Albanian wish to unite all Albanians under one country. Let us not forget the longing of the Serbians to unite all Serbians in the Balkans by granting them their own Serbian republics…

There are also a couple of common factors that the Balkan people share and these are; one, none of them recognize the claims of the others in the territories they occupy and two, none of them recognize the existence of the Macedonian nation and Macedonian people! Why is that?

We are all people, we all have the same desires and, in some ways here in the Balkans, we are all related (linguistically, culturally and even genetically) but refuse to acknowledge this or the desires of the others? Why?

Well, here is some historic trivia for you on how we became like this… sick in the mind! The Balkans has been borderless since Philip II’s time and up until the 19th century, a span of over two-thousand years. History is telling us that the Balkans has always been a borderless heterogeneous world full of many people, cultures and languages. Philip II of Macedonia, a Macedonian himself, was the first person, in recorded history, to have created this vast country over the entire Balkans spanning from the Adriatic to the Black Seas and from the Mediterranean to as far north as Austria and Hungary or even as high up north as the Ukraine. This country remained borderless throughout the Macedonian, the Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires without borders inside it. There were many nations co-existing together, living together and overlapping each other over great spans of territory. Then during the early 19th century the “wise” Westerners came to the Balkans with new ideas; of “replicating” themselves and their way of life over us, thus “changing us” to fit their own image. They taught us, urged us, guided us and helped us put arbitrary borders over our lands and convinced us to accept new identities and histories for ourselves; creating modern states and identities by erasing our true past and forging a new one, a mythical one, to fit our new present and our future. In spite of all of us having a common past, we believed these strangers and went ahead and created a unique image of ourselves and completely erased everything about us that was common. With the help of these outsiders who proclaimed that there will be “Serbians” descendents of the northern “Sorbs”, there will be “Greeks” descendents of the “Ancient Greeks”, there will be “Bulgarians” descendents of the northern Turkic tribes of Volga, there will be “Albanians” descendents of the ancient Albanians of today’s Azerbaijan… We marched forward into a brave new world in which it was proclaimed that there shall be no Macedonians… even though Philip II, a Macedonian himself, started this vast Balkan world… still, according to them, there would be NO Macedonians living in the Balkans and the people we today call Macedonians, well they say that they are in fact “Slavs” who came

to Macedonia much, much later and really don’t belong there! It is interesting that all the Balkan peoples except for the Greeks have being labeled “outsiders” i.e. Sorbs, Bulgars, Albanians, etc., even though they have lived on these lands for many centuries. The Macedonians have been labeled “Slavs”, meaning outsiders who came to these lands during the 6th century AD. In other words, to cover up the fact that Macedonians do exist and are alive and well, our wise Westerners named us “Slavs”, a people not indigenous to Macedonia!

Are we not “the same people” who have lived together without borders for over 2,000 years which, even by Western definition, makes us “the same people”? We have French people living inside the borders France and German people living inside the borders of Germany… right? Is there anyone that denies this? Why does it have to be different for the Balkan people? Why did the Balkans have to be cut up into small pieces, polarized and turned into opposing factions fighting one other and seeking the same thing which none would be able to achieve without outside help? The only crazy thing about all this is the ideas that “outsiders” put in our heads, the artificial borders they raised all around us and led us to believe that we needed to be “homogeneous” in order to be “better” people. In other words, even though we have been “mixing” for eons, these “wise” Western outsiders have convinced us that we are “different” and would be better off if we “cleansed ourselves” of our differences, meaning of our true selves and of our true past and accept a mythical but glorious past as “homogeneous nations” so that we can better fit in this Western structured “Nationalistic” world! And they say “we are the sick ones”!

Once upon a time we were all “a people” living in the Balkans without borders! Once upon a time later, outsiders came to the Balkans, put borders around us and told us that we would be better off if we were “Serbians”, “Greeks”, “Bulgarians”, “Albanians”, etc…. We would be better off if we denied that Macedonians existed… And we need to fight one another until one group completely swallowed the others and we all become one “homogeneous” nation… either Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbians, or Albanians! And we will continue to do this forever… because this is

how we have been programmed by these outsiders… This is how we have become who and what we are today… sick in the mind!

So, by our programming it is natural for each Balkan country to want to unite its people through a greater part of itself because we are all the same people, regardless of what the “outsiders” tell us. But what is wrong about this approach is that we are not all “Serbians”, we are not all “Bulgarians”, we are not all “Albanians” and we are not all “Greeks”… We are the product of many nations and cultures that walked and lived on the Balkans… including the Macedonians who were the first people to open the Balkan borders!

Sick in the mind or not, we are the same people and for us Macedonians there was little that the last two hundred years of pain, suffering and hardship have done to reverse our two thousand year old evolution of living together inside open Balkan borders. Knowing all this I truly feel sad for the Macedonian people who have suffered immensely at the hands of the Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbians and Albanians and more recently in the hands of the Greek and Yugoslav communists and have been tormented by them for the sake of fulfilling a sick fictitious desire, planted into their heads by outsiders, to have the need to create homogeneous states out of the Macedonian territories that they annexed only a short time ago, without Macedonians!

Surely UDBA general Jovo Kapichich must have known how Yugoslavia was benefiting from fueling the Greek Civil War? He never said he didn’t know, he simply was silent on the matter, which means that he knew and that whatever it was that he knew was not in the interest of the Macedonian people, not only in those from Greek occupied Macedonia but all Macedonians in general.

After the right conditions were created in Greek occupied Macedonia for the frightened and panicking Macedonians to pick up guns in order to defend themselves from the “white terror” waged by a faction of “rabid” Greeks, they had no idea where they would be headed and, as a result, what outcome they would be facing. They would be no good to anyone if they surrendered to these terrorists

and died a senseless death for nothing! It was better to pick up a gun and fight rather than surrender and die! One had a better chance of surviving, at least for another day, if they picked up a gun and fought for their lives! The Macedonian people had no idea that they were being set up for a terribly painful ordeal that would have life long consequences… that they would be entering another war and would be exiled from the homes forever… just to make a few politicians happy… and for Greece to achieve its long yearning to “finally” became homogeneous and pure!

There is no doubt that the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia were so craftily manipulated that their actions caused their own demise… But now that we know this, how much longer must we keep silent and how much longer must we allow “others” to write a “twisted” history about us? How long are we going to allow “strangers” to manipulate and divide us?