DURING THE 2ND NOF CONGRESS THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE RETURNED TO THE 1913 TREATY

DURING THE 2ND NOF CONGRESS THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE RETURNED TO THE 1913 TREATY OF BUCHAREST

March 25 and 26, 1949. The 2nd NOF Congress was held in the village P’pli in Prespa Region, with over 700 delegates and guests attending. The greater number of delegates were members of DAG.

The Congress was opened by Evdokia Nikolovna – Vera, who among other things said: “Today we are holding NOF’s Second Congress, during which we will proclaim the new programming principles of our organization. The Macedonian people, who have sustained hundreds of casualties, with their victory, tomorrow will alone be able to determine what they want. This Congress is held at the most crucial time because the Macedonian people are already involved in a struggle against the Monarcho-Fascists...”

Attending the Congress on behalf of the CPG Central Committee, Nikos Zahariadis said: “NOF’s Second Congress is being held at a difficult but decisive moment. I heard Glizburg speak in Athens last night and he said that the situation in early 1949 was very critical, like never before... Because of that, all measures undertaken during this Congress must be such that they contribute to your people so that the struggle is even greater and that we together make every effort to win this year. From this aspect, your Congress is a military Congress and must convince your people to maximize their contribution. We need to mobilize all your forces in Macedonia, all your assets and use every opportunity to achieve victory. Your Congress is a Congress of unity of the Macedonian people.

Now I will pass the question to those who nurture the need for unity among your people. He who deserts the struggle and spreads rumours that ‘the Greeks will betray you’ is betraying his own people.”

Note: All this about which Zahariadis spoke in front of the Macedonian people was a never before seen manipulation and hypocrisy purposely perpetrated against the Macedonians, a small nation of people, against whom this great fraud was perpetrated, which pushed them deeper into this insane and disastrous war. At this point in time Zahariadis was well aware of the real situation and status of the war, yet he continued to push the Macedonian people into it and destroy them to the last one. And to think that NOF was

part of this and totally oblivious of what was happening, simply boggles the mind! Was there no one in NOF that knew that Stalin had already instructed Zahariadis to stop the war and was due to go to Moscow for discussions on April 10, 1949? Why then did both the CPG and NOF keep pushing the Macedonian people to fight?

DEFORMED CONSCIOUSNESS ABOUT THE MACEDONIAN UNDERSTANDING. NO DIVISION BETWEEN THE NOF (MACEDONIAN LEADERS) AND NOTHING ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY. NO CARE FOR THEIR PEOPLE PREPARING FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR CENTURY OLD HEARTS?!

There are those who say: “There is no need to divide the Macedonians, they will divide themselves; they can organize a schism better than anyone…”

The Informburo Resolution or conflict that arose between the Soviet (KPSS) and Yugoslav (CPY) Communist Parties in June 1948 was an excellent example of how to divide the Macedonian people. Although this conflict had nothing to do with the Macedonians, it had an extremely negative impact on the ranks of NOF and AFZH. All of a sudden there was new political stratification, new political rhetoric, new realignment problems, new opposition and new victims. Unfortunately no one bothered to tell the DAG fighters, who now found themselves outside beyond Macedonia’s ethnic borders, about these games being played. So after NOF was dissolved, both the CPY and the CPG began to manipulate the fighters as they wished.

After being under the leadership of the CPY for nearly two years, then after being passed on to the CPG without completely severing its ties to the CPY, the NOF leadership became divided and began to take sides in two opposing camps. One camp was influenced by the formation of the Macedonian state within Yugoslavia and continued to maintain its connection to Yugoslavia, believing that Yugoslavia would bring salvation to the Macedonian people and solve the Macedonian question in Greek occupied Macedonia just as it had for the People’s Republic of Macedonia in Yugoslavia. The leadership of NOF that joined the other camp was well aware of the CPY and

CPG agreements. It was well aware of the Yugoslav directives which subordinated NOF to the CPG. For those reasons and for opportunistic reasons, this camp became loyal and obedient to the CPG. This is why this NOF camp also defended the notion of equality within a democratic Greek state. This part of NOF, even though it belonged to the opposite camp, had not completely severed its ties with the CPY, which meant that despite the 1946 agreement between the CPY and CPG, the CPG did not have full control over NOF. Because Yugoslavia was a very important factor in DAG leading the struggle in Greece, the CPG did not take radical measures to completely cut off ties between NOF and Yugoslavia and repress all influence exerted by the People’s Republic of Macedonia on the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia. After the KPSS and CPY collided, however, this course was completely changed. Shortly after the Informburo 22 Resolution and the NOF Central Council 1st Plenum, held on August 8, 1948, Zahariadis suspended the main leadership of NOF and AFZH. And thus, this is how things were done in the eternal Balkans. Now the Macedonian people from Greek occupied Macedonia became preoccupied in a dramatic schism, while at the same time struggling to fight in an alien war for alien interests.

After that, NOF and AFZH become “fictitious” organizations completely depleted of responsibility and were only there to serve Zahariadis’s interests and to be used as scapegoats for Zahariadis’s ambitious blunders.

Second (intentionally) optimistic scenario: create a Communist Party for the Macedonians in Greek occupied Macedonia.