MANIPULATING THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN HISTORY

MANIPULATING THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN HISTORY - ALL NOF AND AFZH LEADERS RETURN TO STATUS QUO POSITIONS WITH REGARDS TO THE BORDERS BETWEEN GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA.

22 The Informburo resolution was accepted by the CPG Central Committee Politburo on June 30, 1948, and by the CPG Central Committee during its fourth plenum, held on July 28 and 29, 1948. On March 27, 1949, a constituent meeting of 163 Communists, delegates of the NOF 4th Congress, was convened, where it was unanimously decided to form a Communist Party for the Macedonian people from Aegean Macedonia, which would be a separate organization and part of the CPG and would be called KOEM. It was said by some people that this event was the brightest point in the CPG’s care for the Macedonian people. But we will let history tell how truly bright it was and has remained...

One of the main goals for creating KOEM was to prevent any spiritual and other connection between the Aegean and Vardar Macedonians.

Now let us have a look at what our mainstream historiography has to say about this event: “The creation of KOEM was a tactic with the ultimate goal of making the Macedonian national question an integral part of the anti-Yugoslav Informburo campaign, causing all spiritual and political ties between the Macedonians from Vardar and Aegean Macedonia to be severed. This was a deliberate act by the CPG to disorientate the national liberation movement of the Aegean Macedonians and to include the Macedonian factor in the alleged reasons for DAG’s defeat.” (See: Vecher Newspaper -“Historical Truth is Not Daily Politics”. July 2, 1989, by Dr. Risto Kiriazovski.)

Is it difficult to accept that we Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia became the object of vengeance between CPG and CPY ideological views and between Greek and Yugoslav state policies.

On June 20, 1949 the KOEM (Communist Organization of Aegean Macedonia) leadership, under Zahariadis’s direction, accepted and signed a resolution which confirmed allegations leveled against Yugoslavia and the NOF and AFZH Organizations. Included among the allegations leveled were the following:

“NOF and AFZH are organizations harbouring agents who in Aegean Macedonia acted together with and had connections to ‘OZNA’, ‘the JNA Intelligence Service in the Yugoslav General Headquarters’ and ‘Kolishevski’. They were all working towards the same goals: ‘to undermine and break up the CPG’, especially NOF

which worked from the inside to subordinate CPG policies to the CPY, whose main goal was the acquisition of Aegean Macedonia to Yugoslavia.”

There were many accusations leveled against almost all NOF and AFZH members including personal attacks and personal insults of moral nature. These were attacks made against their identity and allegiance. However, every single member of NOF and AFZH who was a successful enforcer of our collective allegiance and awareness stood for three important things:

1.) Ideologically stood behind the CPY or the CPG, 2.) Was guaranteed a leadership position and 3.) Enjoyed State Party privileges.

Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about the thousands of fighters in the ranks of DAG who gave their lives during the Greek Civil War and in the end lost their families and their homes. The CPY, CPG and Greece made them wanderers of the world. All those fighters lost their true history and have never been able to find happiness. To this day, they are not mentioned or appreciated, not even in the histories of the CPM/CPY, Russia, or the CPG in Greece.

A new situation

On April 4, 1949, an Agreement was signed in Washington to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which would consist of the U.S., UK, France, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Iceland, Denmark and Norway.

This was a significant agreement that put Western European states under American control.

In addition to signing the Agreement, the governments of all signatory states approved military service agreements with the United States, which set out the conditions for US assistance to these states and the appropriate arming of military formations.

With the creation of NATO a US-led international regrouping was formed which opened the door for the “Truman Doctrine” and the “Marshall Plan”.

Forming NATO had a profound effect on the overall Greek government position in the Greek Civil War.

(SELF) SACRIFICE OF THE MACEDONIAN WOMAN

On June 16, 1949, the AFZH Executive Board of the Macedonian women from Greek occupied Macedonia adopted a resolution to activate Macedonian women in defense of the Vicho front line. “NOVA MAKEDONKA”, AFZH magazine.

PROPOSALS MADE TO THE CPG FOR ENDING THE WAR

On April 11, 1949, CPG Secretary General Nikos Zahariadis was summoned to Moscow where the Soviet leadership ordered him to end the armed struggle in Greece and withdraw. Zahariadis was told that things as they were developing were dangerous for peace and for the democratic people and nations, and that the Soviet Union had information that the Americans, motivated by operations against DAG, would invade and occupy Albania. The Soviet Union would not be able to help Albania due to the severance of its relations with Yugoslavia. Zahariadis was strictly told that DAG would not be able to get help, as of May 1, 1949 and that Albania and Bulgaria would close their borders.

On April 12, 1949 Stalin personally informed Zahariadis to end the war and gave him his reasons. Stalin also told Zahariadis that there was a good possibility that the Greek government army would attack Albania to stop DAG and that in turn would draw in NATO. Because of its ideological differences with Yugoslavia, the USSR would be unable to provide assistance.

But then on May 4, 1949, suddenly, the Soviet leadership notified Zahariadis that DAG’s withdrawal was temporarily suspended and that DAG should continue to fight.

With all these facts before us how can we even pretend that this war was a Macedonian revolution? How can we believe that the Macedonians were political and military factors in the Greek Civil War? How can we believe that the Macedonians were in command of DAG where there was not a single Macedonian high ranking officer among them? The only thing we can believe is that NOF was very successful in mobilizing more than 15,000 Macedonian fighters from the peasant population who proved themselves to be worthy of the name “fighters”, even though they were led astray!

Should we even waste our words to describe the manipulation of strangers and those amongst us who would even think that such activities existed in the very same people who were ready and willing to give their lives in this war? Did our NOF and AFZH spiritual leaders suddenly forget what they had brought us here to do and were now willing participants in this manipulation? If not they, then who should have worried about the fate of us Macedonians? Was Party affiliation to the CPY or to the CPG more important than the fate of the Macedonian nation which they condemned to fight in this war?

There is nothing wrong with admitting guilt to being victims of foreign manipulation and apologizing to the Macedonian people. At the same time they cannot continue to make claims that they were a military and political factor in the Greek Civil War and not take responsibility for what they did. They were at the forefront urging the Macedonian people to join DAG en masse. They were at the forefront of the child collection program that ended in disaster. They were the ones who called on the Macedonian people to become involved in a war that not only turned them into casualties but caused them to lose their ancestral hearths forever.