Who Are the Macedonians? Their Struggles to Survive as a Nation
(For more information on the plight of the Macedonian children please read cha - Part 05
Moreover, the long-standing policy of marginalization and suppression has succeeded, naturally enough, in reducing the actual number of those speaking the non-official languages. This hostile treatment of heteroglossy in Greece had its beginnings in the early days of the modern Greek state, 170 years ago. In those areas of the country where Arvanitika was prevalent, every effort was made to discourage its use. There was perhaps some justification for this in the desperate efforts being made to unite the regional populations into a single Greek state, using as a means to this end a policy of homogenization of the various populations.
Macedonians, such as Nase Parisis who was President of the Greek branch of EBLUL, are striving to introduce the Macedonian language into the Greek educational system.
In regards to development with the Macedonians in Bulgaria, OMO Ilinden PIRIN was a political party of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria. It was registered as a political party in 1999 and participated in municipal elections in October 1999, where it elected five local officials.
However, on February 29, 2000, the Constitutional Court in Bulgaria declared OMO “Ilinden” - PIRIN unconstitutional. This was in direct violation of the right to freedom of association and the right to freedom from discrimination.
The Bulgarian government refuses to acknowledge the existence of the large Macedonian minority in Pirin Macedonia and continues to violate its basic human rights. Members and supporters of OMO Ilinden PIRIN (political party and human rights organization) and OMO Ilinden (human and minority rights organization) have been videotaped, harassed, beaten, fined, and even imprisoned simply for asserting their ethnic Macedonian identity.
In regards to current developments with the Macedonians in Albania, at the local elections held on February 18, 2007, a Macedonian from the party Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (MAEI) was, for the first time, elected as mayor. Edmond Temelko, a 36-year-old veterinarian turned politician won the mayoral position in Prespa municipality, making him the first Macedonian elected in Albania.
Macedonians in Albania are still unable to fully exercise their basic human rights such as obtain schooling in their mother tongue, using Macedonian national symbols and participation in state institutions. Macedonians fought hard to register their political party, the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration with success which is a major accomplishment for Macedonians, because they demonstrated maturity and voted for themselves. By doing so they showed the Albanian society that they are part of it and will take an active role in dealing with issues in the country.
The Prespa municipality has nine towns, inhabited mostly by ethnic Macedonians who speak their own language and foster their own cultural heritage. The Macedonian language will become the second official language and all Macedonian landmarks will be given their original names which were changed during Enver Hodza’s regime.
All in all activities to revive the Macedonian culture in the various parts of Macedonia, especially in Greek and Bulgarian occupied Macedonia, have subsided mainly because of opposition from Macedonia’s occupiers as well as from the Internationals whose preference is to stifle Macedonian progress rather than see it move forward.
This, without a doubt, confirms that the “powers” in this world to this day still do not want a Macedonian state or a Macedonian nation…
And now I will leave you with a few stories involving Great Power meddling in Macedonian affairs, carried by http://www.minareport.com/ in October 2018 after the failed September 30th, 2018 referendum to change Macedonia’s name:
US State Department and British “PR firms” coined illegal Macedonian Referendum Question
By Marija Nikolovska - October 4, 2018
More and more officials are spilling the beans after the Referendum Fiasco. Same goes for both local and foreign media who are exposing the dirty work of their Governments.
In Macedonia, we found out that the clueless Government junta was not just not involved in the “negotiations” with Greece, they were told the new name must be North Macedonia within a week after they were installed in power by an Anglo-American coup.
For those born after 2002, Bill Clinton’s CIA “offered” North Macedonia in 2001. This blackmail from Washington is ongoing for 17 years and during the past decade and a half worked on installing a complete imbecile as Prime Minister to do their dirty work.
The alleged negotiation between Macedonia and Greece was a complete charade, a smoke screen from day one. There never was any negotiation. The travesty of a document dubbed “Prespa Agreement” was written by the US State Department Nazis with effective assistance from their colleagues in the UK at Gabara Strategies and Stratagem International (both affiliated with MI6).
Macedonia and Greece had zero involvement in the document. Greece however did request that ASNOM be removed from the Constitution which the Nazis at the State Department were happy to oblige – they had removed everything else: identity, language, history, future, why not the foundation itself, ASNOM.
London-based ‘PR firm’ Gabara Strategies out of the goodness of their hearts offered to help the Macedonian government junta win the Referendum. The proposal, whose authenticity was later confirmed by Gabara’s founder and president, Ivo Gabara, included a raft of conventional measures such as making sure the two (UK & Macedonian) governments made a joint statement. One is leaving the EU, the other wants to join, so a joint statement to the idiots made perfect sense.
Part of Gabara’s contract included a section on setting up supposedly opposition social media groups which would actually be under the company’s control to “channel, infiltrate and divide the opposition”. In June, Mr Gabara told the Guardian that the Macedonian prime minister had agreed to the proposal.
The Brits were essentially funding fake “opposition” groups in Macedonia who are actually Soros & SDSM activists. This is nothing new, fake opposition groups have been created by the US and British Governments in dozens of countries where the main goal is either destabilization or taking over.
While the US State Department Nazis were writing up their Prespa Agreement, a British Foreign Office spokesperson said for the Guardian: “The UK is funding a small number of independent experts to offer technical advice in support of the referendum. They are a resource for the referendum task-force”. The impression given by the UK was that this was just impartial ‘help’ in setting up the referendum. That of course was not the case – the company said the FCO had completely funded “its work” on Macedonia, saying “Stratagem International is a resource for the referendum Taskforce (Yes Campaign).” <—- Not sure about you, but we’re very tired of Russians meddling in Macedonia’s internal affairs!
The British “PR firms” created Macedonia’s Referendum question. If the author of the illegal Prespa Agreement was the State Department, it was the British who coined the Referendum question. Once again, zero involvement by Macedonia even for their own referendum question. The clueless criminal Government junta in Macedonia has taken puppetry to a whole new level.
The British cretins’ tactic was to ensure that the referendum question in no shape or form mentioned the fact that the country is being renamed to North Macedonia. Instead, to deceive the public all focus was put on “European” Macedonia, EU and NATO and then as a side note the Prespa Agreement. The State Department was pleased with how deceptive and in their mind ‘clever’ the Referendum question was and approved it. Apparently both the American and British players in this fiasco have the same IQ as Zaev, which makes sense why they get along so well.
As to the control the US State Department Nazis, aka the Deep State, has over European broilers and vassals is the fact that nearly all Western European GMO products were forced either to visit Macedonia (Merkel, Kurz, May, Tusk, Hahn, Stoltenberg, Mattis…) or in the case of Macron issue a dedicated speech to the Macedonian people. Only the Italian PM told the State Department to fuck off. And they certainly couldn’t ask Erdogan or Orban.
In the end, this stupidity, this illegal Referendum and charade of course backfired terribly. If Macedonians can recognize one thing, it’s fascists and Nazis.
Here is another article, again published by Mina Report about what is happening to the Macedonian people today:
Spanish Professor: Prespa Agreement, worst document I’ve ever seen, contrary to International Law
By Gorazd Velkovski - October 3, 20181
In all my years of studying and teaching law, I’ve never come across such travesty, this document called the “Prespa Agreement”. First, it is treason to the most basic standards in international law, and second, it’s packed with nonsense, empty promises with zero guarantees – says famed Spanish law professor Carlos Flores Juberias.
It appears Mr Juberias was not briefed that this “agreement” was not worked out between Macedonia and Greece, instead it was put
together by the Nazis at the US State Department who apart from not mentioning Macedonia in the document (thus nullifying the ‘agreement’), inserted clauses to ensure the document bypasses the UN and the UN Security Council who would clearly block this nonsense. They know it’s illegal.
Professor Juberias is stunned by the document itself. First, he says, how can one country (Macedonia), give the right to another (Greece) to be involved in Macedonia’s internal affairs, thus allowing Athens to decide what it wants to do with the name of the country, the people’s identity, even the language, something that no country on Earth can ever allow – someone from the outside changing people’s names, language and identity!
If this isn’t terrible enough, and it really is, continues Mr Juberias – Greece has a clear advantage of being a member of an economic and military union that Macedonia wishes to join.
Second, these ludicrous demands are asked of Macedonia, yet nothing, absolutely nothing is being requested of Greece where a vague unexplained promise is made for negotiations with the EU or NATO, negotiations that may go somewhere or go absolutely nowhere, negotiations that can take decades!? And the best part is, Greece has nothing to do with these negotiations. – says prof. Juberias.
Considering the facts stated above, continued prof. Juberias – is it really a surprise that Macedonians with an overwhelming majority boycotted this insanity called the “Prespa Agreement” – it is completely illegal under international law. Is it surprising that Macedonians listened to their president and not their prime minister and did not vote in a Referendum that had easily the most illegal and confusing question(s) recorded in all of the world’s Referendums throughout history.
Everything in Macedonia thus far has been illegal. The Prespa Agreement, the Referendum, the questions in the Referendum, the only legal aspect of it was the boycott – concluded professor Juberias.
Editor Note: Greece had 60 legal experts review the document, not for legality, to ensure not a trace is left of Macedonia’s culture, identity, language and the very foundations. Macedonia had Zaev, an intellect rivaled only by garden tools. Sekerinska was given the duty by Baily to lie to the public about what the document allegedly entailed. Macedonians never heard the propaganda, everyone immediately changes the channel when Sekerinska appears on TV. The opposition, the president, legal experts… nobody ever saw or was consulted about the document. Only later when legal experts got their hands on the document did they explain that even nations who have lost major wars wouldn’t dare sign such insanity. Zaev and Dimitrov did.
When Fascists have an identity crisis, they describe themselves as Democrats. When they want to get creative, it’s Social Democrats.
And this:
Stefan Vlahov Micov: “United Macedonia” political party created and financed by US Embassy
By Mark Abramoff - October 5, 2018
The Vice President of “United Macedonia” Stefan Vlahov Micov has just poured gasoline and lit a match on his own political party. The alleged patriotic party was founded, and is financed by the US Embassy using Zaev and his junta as its intermediary, confessed Micov today.
All political parties in Macedonia – large and small – are under the control of the Western services and their Macedonian puppets. Some of them: SDSM, VMRO-DPMNE, DUI and others, were even created by secret foreign services. Is it normal to you that all political parties in Macedonia would sell their soul to the West and NATO even though the entire population is Christian Orthodox? Not one political party wants friendly ties with Russia.
Really?
That’s the level of control the West has over Macedonian political parties, says Stefan Vlahov Micov.
In a post on his personal FB page, Micov says:
It is abnormal in a Christian Orthodox state like Macedonia, for all existing parties, and I mean all of them, to be oriented towards the West, although much of the population wants closer friendship with Russia. That is why I accepted to be deputy chairman of the rebranded party under a firm condition: to have a major say in the strategy of the party. I wrote the party program (the section for the Eurasian Union was prepared by another colleague), of which thousands of copies were distributed throughout Macedonia – writes Micov.
The president of United Macedonia, Janko Bachev, surprised me when he suggested that our party logo should resemble that of Putin’s political party “United Russia”. I saw no reason for it. In the end we settled for our Macedonian 16 ray sun, the lion and the red color.
In a very short amount of time, we ended up bringing in influential Russians such as Savin and Dugin to Macedonia. In April we went to Moscow. In Macedonia we created 62 offices. What brought my attention and a few red flags is our rapid development and the fact that none of the SDSM-run newspapers, or CIA run Voice of America, DW… wrote anything negative about us, but the papers that I didn’t think would write anything negative about us, wrote a lot of negative things – not realizing that they knew who is behind this political party – says Micov.
BEHIND THE SCENES – Whole Project Run by the US Embassy
In essence, the idea of creating a “pro-Russian” party in Macedonia was 100% initiated and run by the US Embassy while Zaev’s junta were the intermediary, the point of contact between them and Bachev. The sole purpose and goal was to portray Russian influence in the country and thereby increase Western pressure for the country to be swallowed by NATO as well as speed up the genocide against the Macedonian people and the demolition of the Macedonian state.
Editor Note: Just yesterday we wrote of the UK doing the same thing in Macedonia, creating fake opposition run by them.
I applaud Mickoski who very early stated that Janko Bachev works for Zaev. Now of course, we all know that Bachev and Zaev are in constant communication – continued Micov.
Other red flags kept popping up after Janko Bachev stated “United Macedonia” is an extended hand of the Russian Government. What the hell!? Now, we all know that his statements were ordered from someone else, think of a flag with stripes and stars – says Micov.
The Russians very quickly saw through Janko Bachev, describing him as first and foremost “Anti Macedonian” and certainly not a “Russophile” – says Micov.
In the end, Micov says that Bachev is yet another traitor in the long list of traitors to Macedonia.
Today Micov announced he is quitting the party and wants nothing to do with a US Embassy run political party/project.
Has anyone noticed the speed with which American activities in the country are crumbling left and right?
The Macedonians in the Diaspora
The Macedonians today living in Canada, the USA, Australia and the world over did not end up where they are just by accident. Almost every Macedonian found outside of Macedonia today is either a political or economic refugee who was driven out of his or her homeland by oppression, violence and economic strife.
The turn of the 20th Century was a milestone in the history of the Macedonian people. Hopelessly outnumbered, many fought for their freedom and independence in the great and stubborn National Ilinden Uprising in 1903 but lost to the Ottomans. This too was by no accident. It was the will of the European monarchies and the Great Powers to have the Macedonians engaged in a struggle against the Ottomans so that both entities would weaken and become prey to western ambitions. As I have shown in this book, the 1903 Ilinden Uprising was instigated by the Great Powers for exactly that purpose. After both the Ottoman Empire and the Macedonian people were weakened, Macedonia was invaded, occupied, partitioned and annexed by the Great Power vassal states, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania.
Canada, Australia and the United States were rarely visited and were virtually unknown to the Macedonians prior to 1903. Those who had ventured to these distant lands were mostly migrant workers looking to make some money and return home to invest it. No one at that time entertained the slightest notion of settling permanently in these lands. Unfortunately the failed 1903 rebellion brought catastrophic consequences to the Macedonian people and drove them to flee abroad to save themselves. And thus began the disintegration of the Macedonian nation.
The Macedonian situation did not improve over the years and more and more Macedonians were driven out of Macedonia mostly during the Balkans Wars when Macedonia was invaded, occupied and partitioned by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria and later during the 1st and 2nd World Wars as well as during the so-called Greek Civil War.
Having fled their homeland as war refugees the vast majority of Macedonians immigrated to Canada, the USA and Australia where
they made their new homes. Even though they now live abroad most Macedonians keep interests in their former fatherland, always hoping for the situation in Macedonia, particularly in the Greek and Bulgarian occupied part, to improve so that they can one day return and reclaim what once was theirs. This was particularly true with the Macedonian refugees from the Greek Civil War, especially the 28,000 Child Refugees who were driven out of Greece at the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948. Unfortunately their wishes to this day have not been fulfilled and if my assessment is correct that there are powers out there that want to destroy the Macedonian identity, their wishes will never be fulfilled. And the longer they remain outside their homeland the easier they will disappear.
My father, like many other fathers, left Greek occupied Macedonia and went to live in Canada with hopes that we could finally find the kind of freedom to be Macedonians that we lacked at home. We found that freedom, I am an example of that, but I am not sure how long we will last as Macedonians. My guess is three generations...
Even though we left our homeland we never abandoned it. We feel that we have a right to be attached to our birthplace and to have a say in what happens to our homes and properties but as time passes and with each generation that interest diminishes. I am sure this was all foreseen by the architects who planned our demise. Canada may be great for some things but it is terrible for preserving our Macedonian identity. This equally applies to every place outside of Macedonia.
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