MEMORANDUM - Part 04

“The 2nd Congress will be the Congress for proclaiming NOF’s new programming principles, which our nation has pursued for many centuries. This congress will proclaim the unification of Macedonia as a single united and independent State, with equal rights as all other states within the Balkan Federation, a Federation which will only be realized through many bloody battles. NOF’s 2nd Congress will be proclaimed as the Congress that united all the Macedonian people around NOF, which will triumphantly lead the Macedonian people in a common struggle with the heroic Greek people fighting the Monarcho-Fascists and the American imperialists. The 2nd Congress will be the Congress to free the enslaved Macedonian population from the cities Lerin, Kostur, Voden, Enidzhe Vardar, Gumendzhe, Seres and Drama. The 2nd Congress invites and will take the opportunity to strike against the Monarcho-Fascist American and English occupiers in order to free the Macedonian people, in their struggle for a People’s Republic of Macedonia.”

February 9, 1949. As requested by Porfirogenis, member of the CPG Politburo, a CPG delegation was sent to Skopje to meet with NOF representatives who had deserted DAG and demand from them to recruit at least 300 new fighters from the refugees who had fled to Yugoslavia to save themselves. Those demands were not met.

March 7, 1949. The CPG Central Committee issued a statement denying any decisions being made during the 5th CPG Plenum regarding the Macedonian Question and regarding NOF’s programming principles outlined at the 2nd NOF Congress on February 3, 1949.

Second optimistic scenario: Create a Macedonian Communist Party in Greece

(Subtle manipulation of the Macedonian people with their own history)

March 27, 1949. A founding meeting was convened during which 163 communists, delegates of the 2nd NOF congress, were invited to participate and who unanimously agreed to form their own Communist Party. In other words the Communist Party of the Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia - KOEM (56). This was to be a separate organization but part of the CPG. (This event was deemed as being the “high point” of the CPG’s care for the Macedonians, but we will leave it to history to determine how true that was...)

Now let us see how our historiography assess that event: “The creation of KOEM was a kind of tactic with aims at ultimately turning the Macedonian national question into an integral part of the Informburo’s anti-Yugoslav campaign in order to interrupt spiritual and political ties between the Macedonians from Vardar and those from Aegean Macedonia. It had aims at disorienting the Macedonian people from Aegean Macedonia and lead them away from a common struggle for national and social freedom. It had aims at including the Macedonian factor so that the Macedonians could later be blamed for DAG’s defeat.” (See: Newspaper “Vecher” – “Historical truth is not a daily politic” published July 2, 1989, Dr. Risto Kiriazovski.)

Is it hard to comprehend that we, the Macedonians from Greek occupied Macedonia, suddenly became the subject of vengeance in the ideological views of the CPG and the CPY, also in Greek and Yugoslav politics.

Mobilization of Macedonians outside of Greece began as early as February 9, 1949.

Porfirogenis’s request, mentioned earlier, was implemented as follows:

Zahariadis’s first (intentionally) optimistic scenario: Offer the Macedonian people self-determination so that they can form a vision of an independent Macedonia!! No sooner than this took place, mass mobilization of Macedonians was carried out even beyond the Greek borders. Was this not an act contrary to international human rights?

So, history should have taught us that promises made in the time of war are not always kept.