THE CPG DID NOT BRING CHANGE, IT BROUGHT ORGANIZED GENOCIDE

THE CPG DID NOT BRING CHANGE, IT BROUGHT ORGANIZED GENOCIDE

For more than half a century the Macedonian people were told that they were to blame for their actions and for what happened in their past. It was most unfortunate that, for all that time, they kept silent and never considered the possibility that someone else could have been guilty of the things they were blamed of doing.

It is time for historians to start telling the truth and stop blaming the Macedonian people for the malicious acts committed against them during the dreadful Greek Civil War. It is time for historians, self-nominated strategists, politicians and various ideological dupes, the likes of Variasov, who have no sense of respect for the thousands of victims that lost their lives in the battlefields, to stop idolizing the War and calling it a Macedonian Revolution. They should stop telling us that we need to respect Zahariadis’s Testament otherwise known as the “Communist Pledge” for a “United Macedonia”, which was nothing more than a ruse to draw us into the communist camp so that we would be wiped out to the last one! The Greeks understand why Zahariadis did this! Why can’t some Macedonians? Why are they still beating the communist drum and asking us to respect someone who tried to destroy us… to the last one?

Greece did not want a United Macedonia; the Western world did not want Greece to be broken up; Stalin did not want a Greek Civil

War… But Zahariadis kept promising things that he could not possibly deliver. This is the biggest example that showed that we were duped! But there is more…

There was also NOF and the other Macedonian organizations which were created, not by the Macedonian people but by foreign hands. But, irrespective of that, none of these organizations were allowed to function freely and work for the interest of the Macedonian people. They were tools designed to dupe the Macedonian people into becoming involved in this dreadful War and nothing more! It was well known how the Greeks treated these organizations all during the War: “Make good promises to them but also carry a long stick!” They were turned into drummer boys and girls and used to bring the Greeks, human Macedonian bodies and military supplies. The Macedonian organization had little chance of operating freely because they were caught between two powerful communist parties, the CPY and the CPG, and even less chance of serving the Macedonian people’s interests. Unfortunately the Macedonian people could only see the puppets in front of them and very few saw the strings and the hands of the puppeteers that made them perform. The end result, the people were marched, 90% of them being forcibly mobilized, to their “liberty or death” in this so-called “Holy War”, or as some call it to “the Socialist Revolution”, while being whispered in their ears that they were fighting for a “United Macedonia”!

Also, please let us not call this “genocide” a Greek Civil War! Call it for what it was: “A perpetrated war designed to permanently evict the Macedonian people out of Greek occupied Macedonia!”

And where is the proof of this? Take a look at what the British were recommending and how events eventually turned out!

“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.)

Yes. During the war and during the half century after the war we never asked: “Why did Britain and the United States support the Greek injustices perpetrated against Macedonia and the Macedonian people?”

Does the reader still think that it was by “accident” that the Macedonian people were evicted from Greek occupied Macedonia in 1949 when Britain was “thinking” of this in 1944? Even before the so-called Greek Civil War was started? Or was the Greek Civil War part of this plan all along to get rid of those Macedonians?!

This has been kept a secret now for more than half a century, during which time the Macedonian people bore the full guilt when it should have been “someone else”!

But that’s not all! The Macedonian people were humiliated, hated and lost their homes. They were evicted from their fatherland with no hope of ever returning! On top of that many lost their lives and many others were separated from their families for many years. They were made to fear their own history and to prove their own heritage.

And then we have “bona fide” historians like Kiriazovski who, for 50 years, made sure the interests of the CPY and CPG were well looked after by writing a history that complemented them for their “support” and “protection” of the Macedonian people. He even complemented the idea of “Macedonians and Greeks fighting together and bleeding for a common ideal.” Let me see now, what did the Macedonian get for their troubles? They were exiled from their homes and brought to the brink of extinction in their own ancestral homeland! And what did the Greeks get? Well, they got to keep our Macedonia without us in it! And who made this possible Mr. Kiriazovski? The CPY and the CPG for starters, the same organizations you spent your lifetime defending!

If we are to believe historian Kiriazovski that NOF and the other Macedonian organizations were working together with the CPG for our “common cause” and that the CPG “cared” about the Macedonian people and looked after their interests, then we need to ask: “Why did the CPG, without exception, put stumbling blocks in front of these Macedonian organizations at every opportunity and why did the CPG demand harsh laws be passed to deal with them?”

Now let us have a look at the facts as presented to us by the “Zora” (Dawn) newspaper in Sobotsko, published in “Nova Makedonija” on April 8, 1995, which, without a doubt, show that Macedonian people still live in our ancestral homes and are currently struggling for our survival as Macedonians. What does the CPG have to say about that?

In part the article said: “Regarding a meeting that took place between David Shuler, US Vice-Consul to Thessalonica and the heads of the Rainbow Party in Florina, the CPG District Committee for Florina issued a statement which condemned the US for destabilizing the Balkans with their imperial policy of ‘divide and conquer’…”

Was this not the same CPG Party that, historically not too long ago, promised the Macedonian people “equal rights”, “self-determination” and even a “United Macedonia” in order to secure their participation in the Greek Civil War? The CPG must have known that such promises also carry consequences… Now the same CPG, years later, is denying the existence of Macedonians… Is this not inhuman… and criminal?

Further on the document said: “At the end here is a characteristic document from the minorities to remind the CPG of the time when it was a revolutionary Party. When it organized and led minority organizations of every minority, be they Macedonians, Turks, Albanians, Jews and others. Is it not the same CPG Party that awakened the antifascist forces in the people? And in the chapter about the Macedonian Question and how the government forces were treating the Macedonians, did it not say: ‘... the tyrannical policy and terrorist suffocation of the rights of national minorities

living in Greece is most inhuman, and in that first row are the Macedonians…? This ‘unlimited defense policy’ on the part of the CPG regarding the rights of the Macedonian people was deemed ‘national treason’ in those days…” (Sixth Congress Decision, 1935, “Communist Review” No. 2.3/1936.)

If today the CPG leadership does not have the courage to stand up for the “rights” of the Macedonian people, it should not talk about rights and it should not entangle itself in the “most inhumane terrorist suppression of the rights of national minorities living in Greece of which the Macedonians stand in the first row…”

It would be good to remind today’s communists of the following: An article entitled “The truth about the Slavo-Macedonians” was published on July 8, 1945, in the newspaper “Rizospastis”, the CPG Central Committee’s organ, in which, among other things, it was said that the Macedonian nation has its own customs, personality and history and its national awareness is quite developed.”

This is further evidence that the CPG not only has admitted that Macedonians exist but gave the world proof of their existence inside Greece as a unique nation. What is peculiar about all this is that today the CPG says Macedonians do not exist and has taken either the amnesia route about its past or it claims that “it is not the same CPG”.

But the CPG is not the only entity that has “skewed” history to fit the present. Our own historiography, the type written in the past and taught to our children through the educational system has encouraged us to “take responsibility” for what had happened during the Greek Civil War because, according to this history, “NOF was the leader of the political and military situation” in that war; with regards to the Macedonian people. This history, or should I say this kind of history, completely overlooks the fact that this war was nothing but a genocidal war to “get rid” of the Macedonian people from Greek occupied Macedonia! Finally, this would be an appropriate place to pose these questions: “Why would Macedonian historians be willing to write such a skewed version of our history which blames our own people of wrongdoing when clearly “others” were responsible for their actions? Why would these historians

protect the CPM when it clearly did nothing to stop the sacrifice of its own people? And, was the CPM a “bridge” between the CPY and the CPG?”

Here is why historians must not remain silent and sometimes, at least on some occasion, need to say something like the following that was said in an interview taken from the weekly “Start” magazine, year 2, number 62, page 21, authored by Iovan Pavlovski. The interview entitled “A pure heart and a clear conscience” was conducted with Kolishevski.

“Start”: “Speaking of Rankovich: His name is closely associated with the assistance Yugoslavia provided the Greek partisans after World War II ended in 1945. And it is well-known that many of those partisans were Macedonians from Aegean Macedonia.”

Kolishevski: “This bit of information comes from authentic sources. Perhaps made public for the first time here, so I want to say that we worked hard for the survival of the Aegean Macedonians, who were threatened with eviction, so we advocated there, in Aegean Macedonia, to form party organizations and partisan detachments together with Rankovich and several generals, and we accomplished those tasks with ultimate discretion. Yes, we established Provincial Committees and armed formations to defend the villages in Aegean Macedonia. We supplied the partisans with weapons and received their wounded. We fed them, clothed them, armed them and transferred them in trucks to this side of the border when they were in trouble. Objectively, in 1946, they fought a war under very favourable conditions and we gave them more of what we, as guerrillas, did not have during the war. I will tell a little story, which I have not told anyone: In the first year after our victory Kidrich led the economic life of Yugoslavia, and the people in this country were fed through his framework. He was an excellent mathematician and kept track of the food in Macedonia. We gave any excess we managed to get to the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia. Kidrich was known to get mad at my constant demands for food, and when he was angry he was known to say: ‘Please Lazo, how many Macedonians do you have in Macedonia?!’ I was upset over this so I asked Rankovich to tell Kidrich our secret. Rankovich agreed. And when Rankovich told Kidrich what all this was about, i.e. the extra

food was for the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia, he laughed and decided to keep our secret safe. The group that supplied arms to the Macedonian and Greek partisans was led by General Iovo Kapichich…”

Spheres of influence:

Here is what Churchill wrote in his memoirs about the Balkans: We arrived in Moscow in the late hours of October 9, 1944. We had our first significant meeting and counseling in the Kremlin the next day, October 10. Attending the meeting were Stalin, Molotov, Eden and myself. The Majors Boris and Popov performed the translations… An agreement was reached on the division of spheres of influence. Under this deal, Greece was entirely left to the British sphere of influence with rights, if necessary, at any time to be able to intervene with all possible means.

Degree of influence as agreed:

Romania, Russia 90% Other 10% Yugoslavia, Russia 50% Other 50% Hungary, Russia 50% Other 50% Bulgaria, Russia 75% Other 25% Greece, Russia 10% Other 90%