Front Matter

Short Truths

By

I. Popovski

(Translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto Stefov)

Short Truths

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November 1, 2018

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AN ARTIFICIAL NATION

It seems to me the situation with Greece today resembles the story of the thief who ran away from the village square yelling: “Help! Thieves!” Then as he left the village he stumbled and fell down dropping all the stolen objects he was carrying. At that same moment the villagers ran to help him and noticed all the stolen objects all around him. So, who was the thief?!

Greece, our “good” neighbour, with its politics is doing exactly that. We have Greek Foreign Minister Venizelos or Turkoglu, a so-called Greek of Turkish origin, trumpeting throughout the world claiming the Macedonian nation was artificially created by the Comintern (Communist International).

Perhaps it’s like that, I am not saying no. But here is the thing. How can so many Macedonians be “born” in such a short time? Was the entire Comintern presidency made up of women? I don’t understand! A lot is a lot! And another thing, my great-grandfather, may God bless his soul, was over one hundred years old and always used to say that he was Macedonian and knew nothing of the Comintern.

Believe me; I don’t know how to explain these “great” claims made by a minister of a “glorious” ancient state formed in 1830 with the help of the Great Powers. And now, that minister is leading the European Union! What a miracle! The Europeans are clever people and I don’t think they are wrong or have forgotten their European history.

I am certain that what the minister has said he learned from the Greek experience of forming the Greek nation over the last two centuries or so. First, if I am not mistaken, the so-called Greeks have origins from the old Ethiopian or Eritrean tribes. Second, the Egyptians who had occupied a large part of the Greek City States did not have enough ships to leave and remained there subsequently being forced to become Greeks and thus enriching the Greek people. Many of the Roman occupiers after Rome fell also stayed in Greece. The Vlachs who were brought to Greece by the Roman Empire and those who came from Dacia also stayed there. The Greeks even

usurped the Vlach rebellion against the Ottoman occupation, which took place from 1821 to 1825. That rebellion is now claimed as a “purely Greek” uprising. The leaders of that rebellion were Rigas Ferreos and Theodoros Kolokotronis, both pure Vlachs. Greeks, since then and to this day, have been celebrating that uprising as the biggest national “Greek” holiday but without saying that those leaders were Vlachs who formed their own Vlach state that encompassed Thessaly and Epirus.

The uprising was claimed to be “purely Greek” and has remained that way to this day because the Vlachs were, according to the same Greeks, an artificial people with the only difference; they were not proclaimed by the Comintern but by the Greeks themselves with the help of the Germans who had already installed a German king named Otto in Greece. And if I am not mistaken Otto was a young prince from some Bavarian dynasty.

Without going deep into history, let us say that Greece grew increasingly larger after its “glorious” war with Turkey in Izmir in 1921. The then Turks beaten “morally” but not militarily, expelled hundreds of thousands of Christian Orthodox Turks who ended up in Greece. So, in order to become “pure Greeks”, the “cultured” Greeks gave these Turks the lands of the persecuted Macedonians. In this way, the Greek nation became larger and more pure Greek.

Who dares deny the ancient Greek ancestry of Karamanlis, Turkoglu, and many other Turks whose names begin with “Kara” or end with “glu”? The Greeks wrote history and no one can change it. The Greeks claim “if you were born in Greece you are Greek”. What a privilege! This is how the rights of the “purest” and the most “cultural”, chosen nation in Europe were created, not an artificial nation like our nation which was created by some entity known as the Comintern.

No one needs mention the case with the promotion of Aryan politics at the Berlin Academy in 1832, which claimed that only the white man was the bearer of the most advanced European culture and civilization from antiquity to the time of Hitler. But who should have been the oldest bearer of that culture? The Romans? No! The Egyptians or Mesopotamians? No, because they were not

Europeans. The Semites or the Indians? Never! The Chinese? No! That privilege fell to the Greeks. At that time three German universities were given the task to write the “glorious” Greek history for the Europeans so that they could be proud of such a white nation. And the Greeks, encouraged by the Germans, began to hyperbolically upgrade their Hellenic history to match the claims made by Aryan politics, embellished with many of the stories belonging to the surrounding nations. They even usurped Macedonia’s ancient history. At that time there was no written version of Macedonia’s ancient history because some powerful people tried to destroy it and hide it from public view forever. By usurping the Macedonian people’s ancient history the Greeks usurped everything that was Macedonian including the Olympic gods and legends. They were baptized to be Greek by adding an “s” or “os” at the end of their names. This copyright the Greeks received was through the signature and seal of Germany, France and England the Great Powers of that time who had colonies around the world. Should you believe in a history guaranteed by the Great Powers!?

Much later, even Churchill reached the conclusion that a small country such as Greece could not create so much history as the Greeks did. But he said this jokingly.

In this way, the Greeks have become a favourite people… a spoiled European nation that has accumulated a lot of debt and experienced five economic bankruptcies most of which, apparently, very few Europeans have noticed. With this latest bankruptcy, however, Greece has been leading Europe, and even Germany, by the nose. A financial bankruptcy such as this has shaken the entire European Union.

Europe has suffered many consequences which this spoiled “child” called Greece has brought upon it, of course in the name of the great Aryan ideal.

This has been going on for nearly two centuries, even though Aryan politics was thought to have disappeared in history together with Hitler! But it has not! Dear Europeans, look around you!

When Bakoyannis, another Modern Greek minister, said that history has been written and no one has the right to change it, she was right. Even Sarkozy defended Greek history not because he had been paid to say that, but because he liked history the way it was written!! Only Germany’s foreign minister was paid off, but for other reasons not for the Macedonian question or for Greek history.

Unfortunately, behaving this way towards European countries has not made Greece a single friend and on top of that has created problems for all of Europe and left Europeans to solve them. It is not like that? Let’s take a look at each of Greece’s neighbours. Greece has had decades-long problems with Turkey, or the so-called Cyprus and coastal issue. Greece has unresolved issues with the Albanians living in Chemeria (Epirus) and with the status of one million and two hundred thousand Albanians who work in Greece. Greece’s biggest complaint about them is that they “eat Greek bread” and “take jobs from the hungry local Greek labourers”. These kinds of problems Greece solves in a “fine” manner by having these Albanians turned into instant Greeks. Let us have a look at an Albanian man named Alia who now calls himself Dimitri. He was given a fine bath and turned into a pure Greek. If he doesn’t like his new name, then he can seek work outside, across the border. And this is another way of increasing the “pure” Greek nation!

Macedonia’s neighbourly relations with Greece have been known for a long time and there is no need to comment. Greek relations with Bulgaria were created only on the basis of one problem: a common hostility towards the Macedonian people, but nothing binds them.

This is your European democratic policy of Greece! That is why Venizelos was sent to Macedonia to teach us how to listen to the Greeks, a chosen nation, and most valued by the European Union.

Only those European scientists who like to be autonomous are now showing some interest in analyzing who is who among the European nations and seeing how “clean” they are. Included among those scientists are the Swiss with their prestigious iGenea institute.

Accordingly, their results and conclusions have proven that the Greeks have an ancient Greek origin of only 4%. This is a far cry from the 100% purity claimed by Greece. This also means that the Greeks are 96% “impure”, a mixture of other nations. In contrast, Macedonians who do not claim to be 100% pure Macedonian were found to have 32% ancient Macedonian DNA. But how can that be? Well, as it was explained by the “European experts”, it appears that the apparatuses when analyzing the DNA for the Greek and Macedonian samples did not work properly. That is why Europe has no comment on this issue! But isn’t this how the EU always behaves when it comes to Macedonia and Greece? Even though Switzerland, located in the centre of Europe, wants to scream to the world about this, its voice cannot be heard beyond the European borders.

But there remains only one small means through which all the results of the Swiss scientific institution’s analyses can be seen. And then what do we see?

Well, this reminds me of the story of the thief who stumbled and fell at the exit of the village and was caught with the stolen things. And so it would appear that the Greek façade is slowly crumbling into small pieces and non-ecological harmful dust.

People do not say “lies have short legs” for nothing.

APPEAL FOR HELP!

Exactly 75 years and five months ago my first name and surname were changed by the Greeks like they did with all other Macedonians who lived in Greece. The explanation given for doing that was that a Greek law was adopted by the fascist Metaxas government which coincided with Hitler’s “triumphant” appearance on the European scene.

My parents wanted to call me Philip, after my great-grandfather, to whom the Lord had granted a life of over one hundred years. I fulfilled that desire, only now, with the baptism of my nephew whom we named Philip. It is part of our tradition to name our children and grandchildren with the names of our older and deceased relatives!

Allow me to explain. I was born in Aegean (Greek occupied) Macedonia and was expelled from my homeland in 1948 during the Greek Civil War along with many other children ages 2 to 14. Some Greek children were also expelled with me but the Greek children were able to return home without any problems. Unfortunately none of the Macedonian children were allowed to return unless they gave up their Macedonian identity. This is how it was and still is to this day!

Later on the Greeks passed another fascist law to regulate the return of Greek Civil War refugees. This law allows the return of “Greeks by genus” which again excludes the Macedonians born in Greece.

These two laws are still in force in Greece, even though Greece entered the most democratic union of countries - the European Union!!

I now live in the Republic of Macedonia and for the last 15 years I have witnessed many European human rights experts, diplomats, experts on various issues and so on, tell us how to turn the Republic of Macedonia into a democratic state similar to those of the European Union!

These emissaries have asked us to even do pointless tasks. And we, with a great desire to join their club, the most democratic club in Europe, enthusiastically did everything they asked of us. And, even though we are praised for what we have done, we still cannot negotiate our entry into the European Union. The reason for that – Greece! On top of everything, we are also expected to fulfill every single Greek desire which includes changing the name of our country and our Macedonian identity. It would appear that they had forgotten to do this until now. Now they have the opportunity to do it elegantly, politically and culturally: through blackmail!

Here is why I am asking you for help: to preserve the name of my country, the Macedonian identity, the Macedonian language and my surname which I received, again, in the Republic of Macedonia. My name, even though it is pure Greek, has brought me happiness in life and I would not change it! I ask for help from those who know me as a Macedonian:

- First I ask for help from the former European Union Ambassador, Mr. Fouere, who personally awarded me the EU InfoCentre Certificate for participating in the exhibition of the most important innovations from Macedonia, Skopje 2009.

- I am asking for help from the European Parliament, from Brussels, in whose official hall I was awarded the prestigious ENERGY GLOBE Award from Vienna as a national winner of 853 projects from 109 countries for my wastewater treatment plant, which the kind Austrians called “MACEDONIA” after my country of origin – the Republic of Macedonia - Brussels, 2008.

- I am asking for help from the Belgian Government which, as a representative of the Republic of Macedonia, awarded me a Contribution Award for the protection of the environment, Brussels, 2001.

- I ask for help from the organizers of the 50th International Fair of Innovation and New Technologies, EUREKA, which awarded me the Gold Medal as a Republic of Macedonia winner and participant, Brussels, 2001.

- I ask for help from the European Parliament, the United Nations and the World Bank as supporters of ENERGY GLOBE, who for the second time declared me the national winner of the Republic of Macedonia for 769 projects from 111 countries, and for my innovation “Plant for the removal of SO2 and dust from smoke gases with heat recovery”, Prague, 2009.

- I am asking for help from my friends from all the Balkan countries who came to visit me and my constructed stations in the Republic of Macedonia. These people were my guests from: Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia...

- I ask for help from my guests from Germany, England, NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iran, Dubai, Algeria and Qatar, as well as my friends from China and North Korea who visited me or were interested in my water treatment plants. All these guests received a visa to enter the Republic of Macedonia.

-I am looking for help from friends from 12 countries located on three continents, and with whose help I built my water treatment plants in their countries with Macedonian technology, and thus I solved one of the most burning environmental problems. I turned waste water into water for washing and irrigation on green and agricultural surfaces.

- I ask for help from all my friends from Greece who want to cooperate with me in order to apply my technology to the beautiful Greek resorts along the coastal blue waters in order to improve the quality of stay of tourists.

- I ask for help from all the Greek people capable of overcoming the perplexity caused by the nationalist hysteria of some of Greece’s politicians (Karamanlis, Venizelos, Samaras ...) whose grandfather’s surnames began with “Kara” and ended with “glu” or their “Samardzhi” (saddle maker) craft, heirs of the newcomer colonists and settlers who came from the Caucasus and the Turkish coast and who were settled in Aegean (Greek occupied) Macedonia. These politicians are now the “most numerous and pure Greeks” to inhabit

the territory of the Macedonians where we were expelled from Greek occupied Macedonia in 1948-1949.

- I ask for help from the international jury commission at the international innovation fair in Jena, Germany which, as a participant from the Republic of Macedonia, awarded me a silver medal for my innovation in 2012.

- I am asking for help from the Association of Innovators and the Academy of Malaysia who, as a representative of the Republic of Macedonia, gave me a gold medal for my innovation.

Is there an honest European from all those listed above that can convince me that I should lose my Macedonian identity and the name of my country in order to satisfy Greece’s current absurd requirements? Please tell me!

With great respect and gratitude, MA in Environmental Sciences, Eng. Technologist, I. Popovski