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THE MACEDONIAN GENOCIDE

I do not tend to think of myself as of a Macedonian revisionist, however, the general version of
The official interpretation, in the view of mainstream World history, about what happened in
Macedonia
After the appalling decision to partition the historic region, is one of fabrication, and deliberately
orchestrated and choreographed pack of lies.
The Macedonian Exodus predates the Armenian Genocide as well as the Holocaust, but in no way
does it deserve such horrendous official interpretation, that treats the ethnic cleansing as well as the
perpetration of such crimes against humanity against well over One million people to be just a
Resettlement effort.
The Macedonian question was among the most mismanaged events predating the final
dismembering of the Ottoman Empire, and it was done only at expense at the native settlers who
have inhabited the region for several millennia.
The only victim of one of the most imperialist adventures of decision making to divide a historically
integrated region administered in totalitarian fashion and implemented thru slaughter and
Massacres of the heterogeneous Macedonian population, were indeed the historic inhabitants of
the Country.
The decline of the Ottoman Empire as well as its gradual deterioration left a huge power vacuum,
which was subsequently the reason for all the local regional struggles that followed.
Macedonia having been traditionally multi ethnic, multi religious and multicultural, was among
those world regions where the national awakening as well as the sense for national identity and the
ambition to independent and sovereign self-rule and establishment of a country of its own, was
slowed down and fractioned against the pressures and the challenges of administering a
multinational country.
The different heritage, religious and cultural identity of all the various nationalities that comprised
The Macedonian social fabric, were unfortunately among the biggest obstacles to the establishment
Of a single homogenous and sovereign country of its own.
The intellectual elite and the Macedonian intelligentsia were unfortunately not able to unite and
create a political alliance as well as a coalition of national unity to preserve and reinforce the
integrity and strength of the region as a single one whole impossible to divide.
The biggest problem it seems along the way of creating an independent state of its own was the
need to create and establish a sense for national identity and unity that would pledge loyalty to the
Country despite of religious and ethnic differences.
Having said all this, loyalty toward Macedonia as a whole was interpreted and assessed individually
and it had a different meaning for each and every one.
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It seems that, the Millet system introduced by the Ottomans was among the more successful ways
to administer such a vast region, rooted in various traditions and influences
Anyway, only a community dedicated and committed to cosmopolitan values elevated to an
unprecedented level of awareness for tolerance and internationalism, as well as diversity could
prevail in such an endeavour as to establish a multinational sovereign country.
Having taken the neighbourhood opposition as well as the mixed loyalties of communities into
account, Macedonia had premature relationship among its own various population, to be able to
create such political alliance and unite the various nations of the region to establish a country of
their own.
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THE BUKUREST CONFERENCE OF 1913

Aware of this and determined to split up the region in as many parts as possible as to reduce the
threat of the establishment of a strong regional military power, the Great powers made a decision to
Partition Macedonia and integrate the divided parts into the new emerging local sovereign states of
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia.
With growing local nationalism and aspirations for regional domination, these three countries had a
completely different view about what the region should look like.
Never the less, Macedonia had been a tapestry a whole kaleidoscope of different ethnicities
religions and cultures scattered around the entire region.
Not one single county, not a single small village had been ethnically clean and homogenous to be
able to easily integrate and incorporate it into the newly emerged national states.
Vast regions full of Bulgarians had been overnight handed over to and incorporated into the
Kingdom of Greece.
With such history of intolerance and prejudice as well as superstition against the other, these
communities were bound to collide, as the kingdom of Greece had not exactly been keen to admit
and accept the human rights as well as the needs of their newly acquired Bulgarian subjects.
Besides, only recently Greece had been severely influenced by Germany in one attempt to infiltrate
Politics in the Kingdom thru a power marriage and infiltration of German Royal blood line into the
Greek court and monarchy.
Overnight, Greece had become a German puppet, severely indoctrinated with the emergence of
Arian Uber Mench, as well as fascist ideology.
In order to improve its noble heritage and create a superficial connection between Greek antiquity
and German aristocracy, Germany back then had been determined to deliberately Hellenise its past,
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And in turn introduced a program of Antiquisation that saw the incorporation of distinctly Greek
character in its architecture, art, design, and painting as well as in other walks of life.
In just a fortnight, German mainstream art had become full of Philhellenes, every and each artist
deliberately designing works of art to deliberately insinuate consistency and continuum between
Antiquity and the German Folk.
This whole chapter of counterfeiting of History, full of German contraband of cheap duplicates of
great works of Art from Classical Greece had been deliberately aimed at the Arianisation of Greece
as well.
This was supposed to be a double direction endeavour
However, damage was done both ways, and this in turn saw the implementation of fascist and right
wing nationalist sentiment among the Greeks, who werent much tolerant and in Love with thy
Neighbour, anyway
Back on the ground, in the fields of that part of Aegean Macedonia totally artificially incorporated
into the Kingdom of Greece, a campaign of assimilation and forced conversion had begun.
Anyway, this was official Greek policy for several millennia, and the Germans only provided moral
support and philosophical legitimacy of the First great genocide of the 20
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century.
Whole villages were massacred, and the others were expelled and sent on foot and displaced from
their homes never to return.
The luckiest ended up in improvised shelters and refugee camps identical to those we see on
television from Palestine.
This whole effort of partitioning of a vast and cosmopolitan densely saturated region was the
beginning of the Macedonian Exodus and a state sponsored campaign and a program of ethnic
cleansing, aimed at deliberately eliminating the Slav element of millennia of presence in the region.
The same faith awaited the native Greece born Turks as well as the Sephardic Jews of Salonika, all in
a deliberate effort to create an ethnically clean pure Arian Greek state.
In a state sponsored and organised campaign spanning several decades one of the most
cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, natural melting pot regions in the World was cleansed of its entire
non Greek population.
The ones who remained were forced to either convert or assimilate and integrate into the Greek
population at the expense of their heritage, tradition and over all identity.
Only total assimilation was accepted, not allowing any freedom of maintaining age old customs and
rituals, with complete denial of any other identity besides of the Greek one.
Greece became a modern fascist state and one of the first ones to implement government organised
pogroms against all the other non-Greek natives and settlers who only inherently ended up in an
artificially created state with state borders drawn up by people in a cabinet far away.
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Such crimes against humanity were perpetuated against the reminder of the Macedonian
population, the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the region would become the blueprint in
orchestrating of the Holocaust and in part would directly participate in its execution against the
Sephardic Jews
Unfortunately, for us as Macedonians, regardless of our ethnicity, our world diaspora, and our lobby
worldwide has done very little for these crimes to be acknowledged, we have stood perhaps too
impotent against our own ignorance of our own past
We are not evolved enough, and our institutions as well as our political leadership and our
intellectual elite are simply not capable enough to realise that even our contemporary problems
today, and our biggest existential challenge that will determine our identity and future as a state and
sovereign country is deeply rooted and interconnected with our view and interpretation of the
Macedonian question thru history.
We are still haunted by the past and the same mistakes are inherently and inertly slowing us down
even today as we speak, as we are not able to fully identify the root of all our problems as a nation
and people with distinct identity.
Our inability to fully integrate into the mainstream European political institutions and all our
contemporary agenda is a problem that could only be solved thru careful analysis, observation and
thorough research of the past, particularly the issues of partition of the region in Bucharest and the
subsequent events that followed.
But just as well, we have to understand our history, our social infrastructure and our social fabric as
a nation and a nationality.
This is why the most intelligent of us from the past who have successfully managed to address this
issue, and have committed themselves to the future of the region as a whole, have been fully aware
of the fact that the Macedonian nation as well as our identity has historically and traditionally been
created thru a fusion and a merger of the many ethnicities and different people who have inhabited
the region.
Theres no such thing as an ethnically clean Macedonian, but so theres no such thing as a pure
Swiss, neither an ethnic Belgian, however, these two previously mentioned countries have founded
and established their state sovereignty by building a relationship of tolerance and mutual respect.
The sole strength of these two states, their political credibility and global status of two First World
countries that belong to the rich and industrial family of the developed world has been built around
coexistence, mutual trust, tolerance and understanding for the other.
This is how they have all managed to even build strong national awareness exactly thru enhancing
their collective identity, as a confederation of states of different peoples equally committed to the
common good of building a joint state enterprise.
Besides, the world reputation and credibility of these countries relies and depends on their internal
unity and strength of their coalition.
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As for Macedonia, in the words of a prominent VMRO leader Vanco Mihajlov, a Bulgarian from the
Vardar district of Macedonia, a small town called Stip, who gave an excellent observation for the
future political direction of the region: I hope well establish a Switzerland in the Balkans.
CAMPAIGN OF MAKEOVER

Macedonia has been multi-ethnic since time immemorial, and it is perfectly natural that a transit
region within such a central piece of land would become the Melting pot and has to be crossed to
get from one place to another in the Balkans.
The Dorian Greeks, or the northern Greek tribes that lived in Macedonia called Highlanders in their
ancient language, were only a marginal part of the rich social fabric that would be merged into the
kingdom of Macedon.
Established revisionists of Antiquity and history of Hellenism even dispute the real origin and identity
of the Doric tribes, not being certain that they have only been distinctly Greek.
However, even with their contribution and participation into the cosmopolitan mix of the region,
their influence not being disputed, and given the distinct geography and mountainous habitat of
Macedonia, along with presence of Illyrian and Thracian tribes among others, Macedonia evolved
into a distinctly authentic political unit, established around a coalition of tribes and political alliances
created to centralise and unite as well to consolidate the region into one sovereign unit.
One of the most authentic and distinctly original aspects of Macedonia was the form of government
that revolved around an autocratic and centralised monarchy, giving the region a unique character,
besides the Greek city state democratic social model, that was common for all other Polis states of
the region.
As Macedonia grew to be the Kingdom of the North, one of the first things done to consolidate and
merge the loose coalition of tribes into a single state unit, was to encourage power marriages
particularly among members of the aristocracy as well as within the Royal family, giving the King
many wives and children from all the other tribes participating into the union.
This provided a multi-ethnic national identity, and ever since the Macedonians have traditionally
been exposed to an enormous amount of different influences and have coexisted thru active social
bonding, taking form in mixed marriages, providing rich and multi-ethnic families that would in turn
define the Macedonian cultural and ethnic profile.
Being a central transit spot with an established maritime naval port in Salonika since Greek
Antiquity, and a part of the Via Ignazia corridor, Macedonia was naturally exposed to broad range of
influences ever since the Dawn of time.
One could argue that there was always a strong pattern and consistency in overseas and other
foreigners creating settlements and populating Macedonia at certain periods of time.
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During the early middle Ages it was turn for the Slavic tribes to penetrate and start infiltrating
Byzantium thru Macedonia, changing once again the ethnic landscape and the social infrastructure,
introducing a distinct Slav element that would dominate parts of Macedonia up until today.
They were followed by the Bulgarian tribes moving south from the Black Sea, along with Wallachian
tribes, and others looking for a land to settle on.
This would only add to the rich Tapestry of the Macedonian multinational identity that has been
traditionally diverse and multi-ethnic since time immemorial.
Over time, Serbs and Turks would arrive, each from a different direction and for their own personal
Agenda, as well as the Sephardic Jews, who would in most part settle along the Khalkidhiki coast
around Salonika and Constantinople.
With the integration and acquisition of Macedonia into the Ottoman Empire, all these communities
would be given religious autonomy, but Muslim authority would be formally established as well
These ethnicities would gather around their own Millets, and would enjoy certain autonomy,
freedom to warship, speak their own languages and build schools, as long as they are loyal to the
Sultan and obey the Laws of the empire.
This system has had its own share of criticism and has been considered obsolete by modern
standards, however given that the rest of Europe was going thru a social and cultural decline; this
was after all not such a bad way to administer the Balkans.
Anyway, Western Europe did not provide a competitive system, and much of the Jews in particular,
lived and were confined to a life in the Ghetto, or were indefinitely expelled from their own homes
never to return
The Muslims were plain and simple Infidels and enemies of the Cross
Contrary to popular belief, it was the Ottoman Empire that was much more tolerant and provided
hospitality for hordes of Jews who could not settle anywhere for long periods of time.
All these issues further contributed and encouraged many other people to settle and arrive in
Macedonia, adding to the cosmopolitan mix, and enriching the social and cultural habitat.
No wonder, all over the World, Macedonia is well known for its salad of mixed vegetables that is
indeed a pure reflection of the cultural mix and its multinational character
Of course, all these arrivals and departures created power struggles and in times left such power
vacuum, that could easily be taken advantage of, and the region was occupied times and times
again, by each expanding European Empire, from Rome and Byzantium to the Ottomans
Never the less, in times of peace and progress, tolerance and respect as well as understanding and
Love for thy neighbour prevailed and the region flourished and blossomed in to a progressive
country.
On the opposite hand, in times of conflict, external pressure only enhanced and emphasised
differences and war inevitable sent the whole region deteriorating in decline and despair.
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This pattern does not seem to provide a valuable lesson for the current political establishment and
the contemporary administration in government has not yet learned from mistakes made in the
past
Given the external and outside pressure to disintegrate the region, particularly from neighbouring
countries, in the past as well as today, Macedonia must stay strong and united to prevail
TODAY
Contemporary Macedonia, as well as the political map of the region has to great extent been drawn
up with the decline of the Ottoman Empire and their subsequent departure and withdrawal from the
region.
The power vacuum left was opportunely taken to the advantage of the neighbouring countries to
divide and split up the whole region and integrate the cut out parts into their own newly established
national countries.
Most unfortunately to the Macedonians themselves, our national awakening as well as our national
conscience back then was only in an Embryo form and had not yet evolved to understand the
challenges of building a sovereign country with a multinational identity.
Much of our intelligentsia and our local regional intellectuals were only dedicated and committed to
building up and emancipation of their individual communities, taking total disregard that we must all
merge and stand together.
Despite of cooperation particularly during the rise of the Young Turks and the removal of Sultan
Hamid from office, as well as the establishment of modern Turkey and declaration of the modern
republic, all these various communities came only briefly together, but never to a more serious
relationship to create the coalition and political alliance needed to be able to establish a provisional
government and build the necessary institutions to eventually build a country.
To that respect, much of the outside criticism, that we as Macedonians have rudimentary national
consciousness, and that we only function within our own communities, not being able to build a
multinational diverse and cosmopolitan state, necessary for the prevailing of a multi-ethnic region
full of various different religions and cultures was justified.
The time was running against Macedonia particularly to the fact that modern European states were
firmly established around a distinct ethnicity and national identity.
Macedonia given our lack of experience to self-govern ourselves after centuries of occupation and
foreign rule could only prevail as a social experiment time bomb ready to explode any minute to the
challenges and pressures of nationalism.
The Bulgarians as well as all the other ethnicities looked to preserve the interests of their
communities, all withdrawing further away from a viable platform competent enough to keep the
region together.
No national unity was ever even proposed, as the only option to the maintenance and keeping of the
region together and integrated as before.
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Macedonian immaturity was simple a result of lack of experience and time to manoeuvre against
neighbourhood pressure to split up and divide the country among themselves.
At the first available opportunity at the Bucharest conference in 1913, Macedonia was artificially
partitioned to three parts further to be integrated into the neighbouring states.
This provided such artificial borders that the subsequent power struggle was inevitable and
impossible to avoid.
The two Balkan wars that followed as well as the First World War and all other subsequent conflicts
contributed to one of the greatest campaigns of ethnic cleansing implemented thru genocide, mass
murder, deportations and massacre all in order to eliminate or expel the surplus communities no
longer needed into the regions integrated into the neighbouring parties.
Unfortunately, as history is written by the winners, the official versions of what happened only
participate in history books as resettlement and repopulation efforts and population swaps.
The Great Powers only concerned to preserve the fragile Balance of power in the Balkans, made a
decision to partition the region with total disregard for the will of the Macedonian, who were not
even consulted, in an event strongly resembling the partition of Palestine
Much of the world diaspora from this region scattered thru west Europe and the Americas is a left
over from the years of war and displacement that followed the partition implementation.
To make only matters worse, intolerance, superstition prejudice and discrimination were the
standard way to which the ethnic minorities were subjected to.
For the many crimes against humanity that were perpetrated against vulnerable and exposed
unprotected minorities, only a fraction of the truth is preserved and much of it as well has been
fabricated over the years, only a bitter memory from survivors remains, but who is there to listen?
With the rise of local nationalists to power, everywhere deemed necessary to counter the threat
from the neighbourhood, the Balkan only became increasingly unstable and the same mistakes
dragged thru the decades only contribute to continuum in insecurity and fragile politics.
Not for long, the reminder of Europe being persuaded it has isolated itself from the danger of
instability and ethnic conflict was dragged into WW1 in Bosnia by an Ethnic Serb, in a region just as
divided and ethnically mixed as Macedonia.






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