Ametanoitos wrote on 04/17/08 at 12:53:06:
You cannot claim the history, the language or the name of another nation (that brought the lights to the Western Civilation) as yours. We are proud about the Alexander the Great the Macedonian who conquered and civilized the ancient world who of course was not a Slav but a Greek! But now everyone when hears the word "Macedonian" don't think of ancient Greeks but a Slav nation! Can 1,5 million people (that are Slavs) decide to call themselves Macedonians, that speak Macedonian and come directly from the Ancient Macedonians (which is the most ridiculus claim of course!) and 7 million people who really are Macedonians do nothing? What about them?
And what about the claims that they want the "whole" Macedonia to get free (meaning to unite the Greek Macedonia and some small regions in Bulgaria and Albania.) Maybe you have not a problem, but i have a problem when my neighbors raise their chlids and make them believe that they are a nation who's most part is slave to Greece or Bulgaria or i don't know who else...
If someone want to be a part of the EU or the NATO or the UN or any other international organization ,has to respect the other participants. We respect our neighbors and (although that is wrong, because their historical name is "Vardarska" or something like that...) we let them have in their name the word "Macedonia", but in a way that all the other people can seperate them from the ancient Greek nation of the Macedonia. What is wrong with that? And don't tell me that the Netherlands have such deep historical backgrounds!
The so called macedonian nation and language ocured in the 40-50ies of 20th century, when
Serbia tried to turn the slav population in the region into serbs, without any significant result. Then to keep it`s influence in Macedonia, serbian secret sevices invented macedonian so-called scolars, who have discovered that there was macedonian language, nation and history. All this was fake, so there had to be assumed facts from the history of the neighbouring countries to be macedonian. The victims were Bulgaria and Greek. The same is with the national identity of the population.
Today
Macedonian politics and state administration keep the lie alive to get their salaires, otherwise there would not be a macedonian state.
About the national identity of macedonians - let they decide by themselves, but they are slavs and many know their grandfathers were bulgarians.
After all the Byzantine
Imperor Vassili was called a killer of bulgarians not a a killer of macedonians.
It is a funny story, if not the persecution of people with bulgarian conscience in Macedonia and the total cenzoreship.
For referrence about historical facts see Encyclopeadia Britannica.
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