EPILOGUE - RUDIMENTARY HISTORY

EPILOGUE - RUDIMENTARY HISTORY

The true history of the Greek Civil War is now being exposed and is full of cruelty. And even though they contributed to Greece’s well being, the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia were treated with cruelty not only by the Greek government but also by the communists. The Macedonian people suffered immensely and in the end lost everything, even their ancestral homes, fighting in this tragic war designed and led by the then CPY and CPG.

After over half a century of silence and free of those heroic times, we are now looking at this distant Greek Civil War more objectively and analyzing it from a neutral standpoint with aims at getting to the truth. We are finding out that it was a complete tragedy and we are closing the circle from believing that it was a historic success for our people and now finding out that it was a great and lasting historic tragedy.

We are also finding out the purpose behind the creation of NOF, AFZH and NOMS, linked to the globalization of world ideology, which was not to benefit the Macedonian people as we believed, but to benefit foreign interests. NOF, AFZH and NOMS did not have their own solid goals. Their goals were fluid and altered from time to time to suit the needs of their masters the CPM/CPY and the CPG.

The results achieved by NOF, AFZH and NOMS were not at all successful for our people as we were led to believe, they were the opposite. In their hands our people suffered utter defeat and experienced genocide. We not only lost many people but we lost our Macedonian ancestral lands for all eternity. The “Pedomazoma” (taking away our children) was not implemented to save our children; it was a deliberate act to destroy our nation by robbing it of its youth. This is why only the Macedonian children were given a one way ticket out.

There was also the gruesome and bitter fate of our Macedonian children collected and sent to Frederica’s camps and boarding houses. They too were isolated from their families who, on top of being isolated, were also taught to hate their real parents because the

Greek government accused them of being “traitors” and were brought up believing that they were Greek.

Some of the blame for losing our children must fall on us because we either allowed these foreigners to take our children or did not fight hard enough to stop them. Unfortunately we now must bear the entire burden for what happened, for the destruction of the Macedonian family and for the loss of our ancestral homes and lands in Greek occupied Macedonia.

Our reward for our (self) - sacrifices in the Greek Civil War was a one way ticket to oblivion.

This is how the ideological installation that relied on foreign winds ended. Lastly, let us summarize our findings in line with the foreign strategic model designed to exterminate us, i.e. our national defeat in Greek occupied Macedonia. Who can be blamed for what - is very difficult to pin down. It is not clear how much responsibility the individuals and ideological activists had in the everyday activities of the Party in Greek occupied Macedonia. For example, not only were the children taken but this act of “taking children” was illegal. The mobilization of Macedonian men and women to fight for DAG was illegal. Under whose recognized authority were these acts committed and who was responsible for them; NOF, AFZH, NOMS or those who gave the orders? Who is to blame?

There should have been no more wars starting after World War II ended. Everything was settled and guaranteed by the major powers. So, why was there a Greek Civil War, who started it and why? It is becoming clearer and clearer that the Greek Civil War was a brain child of the major powers. The communist regime, Zahariadis, Tito and Stalin on the one hand wanted to cause problems for the capitalists. The capitalist regime, England, the United States and the Greek government on the other, wanted to destroy communism in Greece and get rid of the Macedonian nation living in Greek occupied Macedonia.

It is a very interesting combination when demagogy and daily politics written as historiography come together. This combination creates a “double distorted” historical reality leading us to believe

that the Greek Civil War was a historically epic event for us Macedonians. But if we look closer at the facts: The preoccupation of NOF, AFZH and NOMS politically was to systematically mobilize the Macedonian people by falsely inciting them to fight and not ask questions. The Macedonian people were never asked if they wanted to fight or not. So, every Macedonian person exiled from his or her birthplace has at one time or another wondered: how could the Macedonian leaders have been so naive, so adventurous, and so irresponsible as to initiate this war… But so far no one has given an explanation. Was there ever, at any time during the war, a member of NOF, AFZH and NOMS who asked why a war?

Looking at the situation today, more than fifty yeas after DAG was liquidated, given how the CPY and CPG behaved towards us during Greek Civil War, should we the ordinary Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia still be the ones apologizing for what happened?

Nowhere else in the world is there a people blamed for the sins of others as it is with us Macedonians. It is almost like we have been hardwired to believe and propagate foreign propaganda. This happened to us during the Greek Civil War and to this day, has become our trait…

As a result of researching precisely this topic I have written the following books:

1. (Self) sacrifice of the Macedonians under Greece in the Civil War (1945-1949) and,

2. Ideological activism of the Macedonians under Greece (1940-1950).

The problem with the exiling of the Macedonian children during the Greek Civil War, for us Macedonians, was one of the most serious problems in the Macedonian National Movement and I believe that with this book I have contributed to answering some of the basic questions that have arisen.

Those who led NOF, AFZH and NOMS and who are still alive should be obligated to speak up and tell the truth in order to expose the fallacy. The people already know who the guilty culprits were. It is time that Macedonian mainstream history is written that way... Besides emotions, there are also tragedies and human losses. One sometimes has to face up to them and tell the truth no matter how ugly and cruel it is.

Our Macedonian mainstream history contains artificially injected, biased Greek and other foreign views about us Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia. As a result the reader is brazenly subjected to misleading and falsified history about our reality. We were a small number of people in Greece and there was no way that Macedonians living in other countries could help us. Even if they did, their help would have been pointless because by then the major powers had already decided what the world was going to look like without us. There was no way that we could have taken on the entire world with weapons. Our strength should have been our mind and we should have focused on saving ourselves and preserving our most valued possession; our ancestral hearth. We had no intellectual quantum, but we had Macedonians who loved their country immensely. As a result foreign ideology through our ideological activists was able to penetrate our minds, to mislead us, and direct us to our (self) destruction.

GOOD OR EVIL?

From what we have learned so far we can conclude the following:

During the time when they were active, NOF, AFZH and NOMS went through various phases. First they were “administered” by the CPM/CPY and then by the CPG. All these times they acted under orders from these two regimes. Known or unbeknownst to them, they committed great sins against their own people. All their conduct and actions eventually brought us to a catastrophic defeat – that is, to our self-destruction.

NOF, AFZH and NOMS, even the CPM, did not have a clear political philosophy regarding the vital interests of the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia. This was confirmed by the

fact that we Macedonians failed to assert ourselves as Macedonians but instead accepted the fictional label “Slavo-Macedonians” assigned to us by the CPG. We the Macedonians fighters did not succeed in retaining our identity as Macedonians with our Macedonian military markings and symbols. Some of us even fought in this war against our will. We accepted being illegally drafted and mobilized without question. All this left deep psychological wounds in our collective consciousness and in our souls.

But the most painful thing of all is that, to this day, those who led us (NOF, AFZH, NOMS, CPM, CPY and CPG) during the Greek Civil War and certain “scholarly” historians insist that the war was justified and fiercely defend their claims and actions. After the war ended, a lot of Macedonian people believed that justice no longer existed. If it did exist, it existed only for the powerful (CPY, CPG). In other words justice served the powerful and not necessarily the righteous. Those who were powerful were righteous… and the communists were powerful…

With time, it is becoming very clear that NOF, AFZH, NOMS and even the CPM had no clear notion or awareness that the Great Powers and our neighbours had an advanced pre-planned solution for us! The Greek Civil War went as planned. It was a success for the Great Powers and for Greece and Bulgaria but a disaster for us Macedonians. When the armed conflict ended all the NOF, AFZH and NOMS leaders left Greek occupied Macedonia leaving behind the remaining part of the Macedonian people to pick up the pieces and endure the wrath for their sins. The survivours endured trauma and the burden of it haunted them for years. No less traumatized were those who fled their homeland and lost their ancestral hearth forever or those who were separated from their children with no hope of ever seeing them again. The Greek Civil War broke the Macedonian family…

My aim, through this book is to shed some light on the terrible and gloomy grey shadows that have gloriously hovered over us for years making us feel humiliated while we wait and wait for our return ticket to be issued… For many decades now we have been living in

exile and in fear with the notion that care must be taken not to offend those who inflicted this evil on us.

In other words, we Macedonians through NOF, AFZH and NOMS did not create a future for ourselves; we are still waiting for our future to be created. Why? Because we were fatally disorganized, and as a result, became innocent victims of the CPG.

After the Greek Civil War ended, we allowed our past to be wiped out and our present to be deprived. And where there is no past and present there is no future. This is the real situation we are in at the moment as I see it over a half a century later with shadows of the Greek Civil War still hovering over us, with many questions unanswered and with many issues still open. I will never agree to the idea that our children were taken to be saved as I will never agree to the way our Macedonian mainstream has treated us… not as Macedonians but as “Aegeans”… a derogatory term used to belittle us.

Some of the blame for what has happened to us after the Greek Civil War ended must be placed on some of the so-called intellectuals, if we can call them that, who have not only participated in Macedonia’s political life and in the sharing of political power, but have also acted as apologists who put their own intellectual dogma ahead of our interests. Some of them are so lost in the political waters of daily politics that they use their intellectual virtue only as a demagogic skill. There is also another group that works in accordance with the need of its clients and their own lucrative goals, and when needed, at one time or another, this group on one hand affirms and praises ideas and facts and on the other acts as a fierce critic. This group has been deadlocked in its unfulfilled ambitions to actively participate in the sharing of political power, but due to its own failure, it is constantly filled with anger, envy and nihilism.

So, through this book, we have followed the over half century-old political power which, in the absence of spiritual power, set out to take us away from our real life and intended destiny and keep us from finding out the truth about the genocide we experienced in Greek occupied Macedonia. We were also most unfortunate that “totalitarianism” existed all these years and that the governments

which possessed immense political power refused to help us. Through this book, at least I will be able to leave something about this for our future generations.

What does science say about this tragedy?

For more information refer to the journal “Sontse” Imperative preparation of ethnological maps of Macedonia (3), by Prof. Dr. Miodrag Kalendar Hadzhi Ristich, February 15, 2002:

“...and all this happened again after World War II and to this day. The lie that the so-called “Civil War in Greece” was actually a continuation of the operation to create a “Greater Greece”.

“This war became an ‘anti-Macedonian war’, when hundreds of thousands of children barely out of diapers, young people and adults, allegedly fled Greece and went to Tito’s Yugoslavia before the military operations began in Greece, from where “the clever servile Macedonian leadership” which in place of settling the population from the Mediterranean part of Aegean Macedonia to the vacant, abandoned settlements of the western territories of Macedonia, which were abandoned because of atrocities committed during the fascist Italian and fascist Albanian occupation when it was partially settled by Albanian settlers, sent the Macedonian people across the border to Yugoslavia.

The Macedonian population was expelled from Aegean Macedonia systematically, ‘with our blessing’ and sent to Eastern European countries belonging to the socialist bloc of Europe, all the way to Tashkent in the Asian part of the Soviet Union. Alleged attempts at partial return of some of these Macedonians to the People’s Republic of Macedonia were neither understood as a national nor as an imperatives plan to save what could be saved from the initiated and perverted ethnic invasion by the Albanians using ‘omnipresent opportunities’ - a supposedly common state, the seventh republic of Tito’s Yugoslavia, and especially after the INFORMBURO developments, when Macedonia became an open country...”

As we are finding out more information about this war we are uncovering the undeniable truth that the main protagonists and

planners of the Greek Civil War were the CPM/CPY and the CPG, which opened up space for ethnically cleansing the Macedonian people from their geographic and spiritual space after World War II. The lack of concern by these ideological caretakers was not only confirmed by science (Ristich), but also became more than clear to every single conscious Macedonian who suffered.

And yet, history goes on and will be the final judge.