Part two of the post-Greek Civil War horror. This is what reliable facts say a

Part two of the post-Greek Civil War horror. This is what reliable facts say and this is the historical truth. These facts show the dark and darker curtain of our destiny.

The Greek Civil War was and still is a key national issue for us Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia, but somehow it has been dislocated from our national interests. It has become a secret political problem, which still exists but we can’t talk about it. And whose interests are we serving by not being allowed to talk about it? The fact that we were not allowed to talk about it has been confirmed by the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, consisting of legal experts who held a meeting on January 23, 2006 during which Vania Toshevski said: “…all practical steps in this direction have been blocked by Yugoslavia. And it was done in favour of Greece...” Are we not the victims in all this? Over 60 years have passed, it’s time that we turn

the page and begin discussions about what truly took place in Greece and get to the true purpose of the Greek Civil War in relation to the Macedonian Question.

I believe that the exiled Macedonians uprooted from Greek occupied Macedonia, at some point or another, realized that all ideologies such as Nazism, Fascism and Bolshevism were created by ambitious people who were thought to be concerned for the good of humanity. For example Lenin created a system which eventually destroyed him. Power in the hands of only one person is always a real source of danger. But no other country had a government like the Provisional Democratic Government of Greece, in other words the CPG, which was so cruel to its people that it abandoned its own defenders, the DAG fighters, allowing the Greek government to exile them for over half a century and keeping silent about their fate…

The CPG it seems has forgotten that thousands of Macedonians gave their lives for the sovereignty of Greece. It seems it has forgotten that thousands of people became victims during the resistance against the Germans. The CPG, it seems, has forgotten that thousands of Macedonians served in the ranks of DAG and died in the battlefields throughout Greece. The CPG seems to have forgotten that Greeks were allowed to return to their homes and make a life for themselves while the Macedonians were left out to wander the world after being given a one-way ticket out! Is there any sense of humanity left in the CPG, or any other Communist Party in which we put our entire trust?

At the end of our extensive military and political analysis we can conclude one thing; that the CPY and the CPG, during the Greek Civil War, wanted to resolve all their problems inherited from partitioning ethnic Macedonia in 1913 and to prove to the Macedonian people that they would “never” support a “United Macedonia”.

The Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia were definitely victims of the CPY/CPM and the CPG, who fueled the war and then blamed the Greek government for instigating the white

terror, for destroying Macedonian properties and for exiling so many Macedonians.

The burden we have been carrying for the last six decades or so is heavy and many things are still unclear, which begs asking some fundamental questions. For example, who started the war in Greece? Was it started out of necessity in an attempt to save the Macedonian people and went horribly wrong? Or was there a plan perhaps by the CPG or the CPY, or by both, to rid the Macedonians from Greece?

Surely by now it has come to light that all of the organizations SNOF, SNOB (created by the CPG) followed by the Greek Civil War with the organizations NOF, AFZH, NOMS (created by the CPY) and KOEM and “Ilinden” (created by the CPG) and their propagandas did create a centre of a massive cult of personalities. But one thing they forgot is that they needed to love their country and their people, not just their party interests and seizing power.

There are many questions about our Macedonian leaders, yet no one has showed courage to provide answers and to admit that they were indeed involved in tragic and deeply misguided politics, especially during the Greek Civil War when the entire Macedonian nation was driven to a national disaster.

Did the NOF and AFZH leadership behave responsibly throughout all this? Well, one thing we can say is that they were deeply divided abroad and often gathered around a party leader who was in opposition to another party leader. One faction of Macedonians supported the CPY and fought against another faction of Macedonians who supported the CPG! And where was their concern for Macedonia in all this? Nowhere to be found! This should show you how politically mature we were in those days!

Let us rephrase our question. Did our Macedonian leadership have difficulties functioning outside of the CPY and CPG? Were they capable of making major political and strategic decisions on their own, particularly during the war? Were they capable of preventing the loss of our homes and us from being exiled outright? If they were then why did they not act? Why did they put the Macedonian people’s destiny into the hands of strangers?

And so Aegean Macedonia became a land of very sad people. Most likely, they kept silent on purpose, and as it turned out, more than 55 years later, lack of critical thinking contributed to the apathy not only in people but also in historical science. Everything about the tragedy of the Geek Civil War seemed to have sunk into the quicksand of history.

So, in my attempt to write this book, I tried to add some light to our very vague and hazy past and I made sure that no matter where I looked, at something strange, at something hard to recognize, I looked at it with critical thinking in mind.

It turned out that a person seduced by ideology is a great wonder. They would like people with virtue to tell the truth, not to lie, not to have vanity, not to get frustrated, not to bluff, not to be calculable, not to invent double truths, to be clean, to ask the right questions with indifference, to know the answers and what will happen next. We met such open questions from Evdokia Foteva - Vera, but also many shadows. I think that absolutely every person deserves to be respected. But the world changed and we remained mute observers. We were silent, our steps were heavy and painful, and for the past 55 years or so we looked at each other in disbelief.

The burden is already too heavy, and it can no longer be carried. I can’t help but remember the many thousands of my comrades who left their bones on the battlefields of Gramos, Vicho and everywhere else in Greek occupied Macedonia but not a thing has been said about then in our integral history, not a word... Don’t you think that we have been punished enough? Don’t you think we have wandered enough for the last half century feeling “guilty” like we have committed some kind of unforgivable evil...?

So, the time has come to no longer believe the lies we have been told. It seems to me that after hiding the truth for so long the lies have become truth; lies and truth have become equal. But one thing is certain, this did not happen by chance, especially in politics. This study may be disturbing, unhappy and boring but it is an attempt to free us from the alleged sins we have been burdened with. We have been “punished” enough for our sins but it was not entirely our fault

for what we did. The Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia have been led through very obscure paths. But every path has something to tell us. HISTORY WILL BE REMEMBERED. HISTORY IN THE FUTURE WILL PASS JUDGMENT ON EVERYONE.

This was just the END OF THE LAST LEADER’S STORY.

What did time offer us after our catastrophic experienced in the Greek Civil War? Some people thought of themselves as worshipers of the truth, others committed violence against our history, but history is no one’s “privilege”. Unfortunately there are the DAG participants and those who fled to Yugoslavia to save theselves, that are out there who have been thrown into the ideological waste basket, about whom history is silent, and does not say:

WHOSE VICTIMS ARE WE MACEDONIANS FROM GREECE...!?

For the past 55 years we have suffered. We are still suffering even now. Slowly the “unprecedented” lies, some from our people but mostly from outsiders and foreigners, are burning us…

But the worst legacy left to us from the Greek Civil War is: Our Macedonian people don’t want us either. This is confirmed by the following FACTS AND ARGUMENTS:

We have been written off: When the Republic of Macedonia found itself in a vulnerable position, because Greece imposed an economic embargo on it, Greece blackmailed it into changing its constitution in ways that were damaging to the Macedonian people living inside Greece or originating from Greece. This was a politically motivated act to take focus away from Greece, away from the Greek atrocities committed against the Macedonian people, the illegal Greek confiscation of Macedonian properties, the continual Hellenization of Macedonians and the Greek denial of human rights for the Macedonian people living in Greece. This act, I call an immoral use of political power applied in the absence of spiritual rule!

By accepting this kind of a proposal, all Macedonian efforts and struggles in neighbouring countries, including in Greece, for the realization of elementary human rights for free expression of identity and for the cultivation of cultural uniqueness as our historical and civilizational rights, were underestimated. We all know very well that Macedonia and Macedonian are not just names but also an inseparable part of the Macedonian identity. So, the main problem the Greek government had was not only the independence of Macedonia, but the impetus it would give to the demand for rights for the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia. So for the Greek government, the problem is not the Republic of Macedonia, but the Macedonians in Greece as an ethnicity.

Greek government demands were unfortunately accepted and the Macedonian constitution was amended to abandon care for the Macedonian people in the neighboring countries. But in practice the whole world knows that every nation (including the Republic of Macedonia) is historically and civilizationally obliged to care for its people who fell under foreign states. With this act, in the absence of spiritual power as a rule, our people were separated again to satisfy Greece...

Care after 55 years:

THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LEGAL EXPERTS RECOMMENDED: IT’S TIME TO CLOSE THE “AEGEAN ISSUE”!

Parliament to condemn the genocide of the Aegeans

Hristo Ivanovski a Helsinki Committee representative said that the Aegean issue must stop being a romantic topic for writing novels. “The Parliament should discuss this and condemn the genocide against the Macedonians in Greece”, suggested IVANOVSKI. Tuesday January 24, 2006.

A small comment: In his article entitled “Humanity of Macedonian Communism” Dr. Zoran Todorosvski said: “In the period from 1945 to 1993, about 50,000 Macedonian citizens were arrested, deported,

tried, imprisoned, sentenced to death, shot, killed, disappeared or had political and prison records”.

At the Tribune organized by “VREME”. Macedonia and communism - do they still live together? It was said: AMNESTY -YES, BUT NOT AMNESIA.

The question is will there be an amnesty for the Macedonians from Aegean Macedonia who were victims of the Greek Civil War? Will it have a place in native history? Why did the CPM, led by Kolishevski, allow NOF to find itself in the grip of the CPY and CPG and in a position to defend the logic of insanity? Didn’t the CPM know that NOF did an invaluable service to the CPG, but no less to the CPY? Are the facts being forgotten that the communist chain of the Aegean people was hung and tightened personally by Kolishevski (following a directive from the CPY)? Have they forgotten that facts speak undeniably: NOF and AFZH were organized by the same regime and on April 23, 1945, sent to fight in Aegean Macedonia and were directed until 1946 directly by the CPM/CPY? Do they think that 55 years later all those victims will still have AMNESIA?!

Canceled: LEAVE US ALONE TO FIGHT OUR WAR

(Don’t bother to protect the minority in Greece)

“No Macedonian government can solve the problems of the Macedonian minority in Greece. The Macedonians in Greece should do that because they live in a country which is committed to respecting human rights”, said Pavle Voskopoulos from “Vinozhito”.

“Our fight is not only for the rights of the Macedonian minority. We stand for a more democratic and European society in Greece. We are the only minority movement in the Balkans whose leadership includes members of the majority” said Voskopoulos.

Tribune: “The Macedonian national question in Greece and the Greek national myth”, organized by “VREME” and “AZ-BUKI”, Saturday, January 28, 2006.

March 5, 2006