FYROM’s Distortions, Lies and Propaganda etc .
Correct said that authentic Macedonia is a Greek province!
But there is also a Slavic/Albanian republic that uses the Greek name "Macedonia".
Although officially they don't claim that they are related to authentic Macedonia of Greece there are few fanatics who express unhistorical and fascist positions!
Everything started with Tito (the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia!)
Tito took south Serbia and renamed it as "Socialist republic of (Slavic)Macedonia" inside the communist Yugoslavia in 1946.
He also promoted the concept of a separate “Macedonian nationâ€, as a means of severing the ties of the Slav population of Yugoslav Macedonia with Bulgaria, (although the modern (Slav)Macedonian language is close to and largely mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, and to a lesser extent Serbian.) The differences were emphasized and the region's historical figures were promoted as being uniquely “Macedonian†(almost every Bulgarian or Greek hero was described as “Macedonianâ€). A separate
Macedonian(Slavic) Orthodox Church was established, splitting off from the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1967 (only partly successfully, because the church has not been recognized by any other Orthodox Church). The ideologists of a separate and independent Macedonian country, same as the pro-Bulgarian sentiment, were forcibly suppressed.
Tito had a number of reasons for doing this. First, he wanted to reduce Serbia's dominance in Yugoslavia; establishing a territory formerly considered Serbian as an equal to Serbia within Yugoslavia achieved this effect. Secondly, he wanted to sever the ties of the Slav-Macedonian population with Bulgaria as recognition of that population as Bulgarian could have undermined the unity of the Yugoslav federation. Thirdly, Tito sought to justify future Yugoslav claims towards the rest of geographical Macedonia; in August 1944, he claimed that his goal was to reunify "all parts of Macedonia, divided in 1915 and 1918 by Balkan imperialists." To this end, he opened negotiations with Bulgaria for a new federal state, which would also probably have included Albania, and supported the Greek Communists in the Greek Civil War. The idea of reunification of all of Macedonia under Communist rule was abandoned in 1948 when the Greek Communists lost and Tito fell out with the Soviet Union and pro-Soviet Bulgaria.
Tito's actions had a number of important consequences for the Slav-Macedonians. The most important was, obviously, the promotion of a distinctive "Macedonian identity" as a part of the multiethnic society of Yugoslavia. The process of ethnogenesis gained momentum, and a distinct national "Macedonian identity" was formed. There have been numerous accounts from northern (Slavic)Macedonia from the late 1940s that the policy of Bulgarisation during the Bulgarian occupation (1941 - 1944) was as abhorrent for the ordinary Slav-Macedonian as the policy of Serbisation until then. IMRO's leader in exile, Ivan Mihailov, and the renewed Bulgarian IMRO after 1990 have, on the other hand, repeatedly argued that between 120,000 and 130,000 people went through the concentration camps of Idrizovo and Goli Otok for pro-Bulgarian sympathies or ideas for independent Slav-Macedonia in the late 1940s., which has also been confirmed by former prime minister Ljubco Georgievski.
Unfortunately the 60 years propaganda has affected the minds of some of the Slav-Macedonians and there are few who had even asked for Greece to "return authentic Macedonia of Greece" to them!!!!
Officially the government of (Slavic/Albanian)-Macedonia has denounced such claims and they officially say that they have no connection with authentic Macedonia of Greece!
here is what the first President of FYROM (Slavic/Albanian)-Macedonia), Kiro Gligorov said: “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35).
On 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S{(Slavic/Albanian)-Macedonia} Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country".
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