the message of the local (native)

8/2/2019 THE MESSAGE OF THE LOCAL (NATIVE)

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This year marks 100 years since the annexation byGreece of the southern part of Macedonia, in 1912.Aready, many entities ha!e be"an their ceebrationsto commemorate in a festi!e #ay $the iberation ofMacedonia from the Turkish yoke.$The foca point is, of course, the head city ofMacedonia, Thessaoniki.The municipaity has panned numerous e!ents. %nthe $axis of action$, history has a dominant roe. %nthis context and accordin" to the schedue, $a three&

day scientific conference is or"ani'ed in (ctober2012, at the ne# )oncert *a, #ith internationainterest and participation of scientists from a o!erthe #ord. The or"ani'ation #i be done by eadin"history scientists. Aso an exhibition for the 100years+ history of the city is panned in the port+s#arehouse )+$.About the non&Greek&speakin" and non oman&orthodox communities i!in" in Macedonia at thattime, particuar reference is made ony to the *ebre#one. A specia exhibition tited $The -e#s inThessaoniki. %ndeibe marks in the area$ isor"ani'ed by the Archaeoo"ica Museum ofThessaoniki in cooperation #ith the -e#ish Museumof Thessaoniki and #i operate durin" the entireyear.$(f course, the $Top history scientists,$ #ho #iparticipate in the history conference, #i not dea #ith

ho# random #as the inexpicabe fact that the rate ofextermination of the -e#s of Thessaoniki by thea'is is the ar"est amon" the ma/or cities of uropeor the fact of the destruction of -e#ish cemeteries

and monuments in Thessaoniki by the Greekauthorities durin" the econd ord ar or the factthat after the defeat of the a'is, they did not returnthem to those #ho sur!i!ed.To these e!ents #e, the Macedonians, can certainyen"a"e first and foremost because #e are theati!es, the Locas, as they ca us, residents of thispace and any historica chan"es concern us, first andforemost. e, ho#e!er, are in!ited as spectators,appauders, spineess actors. o $eadin" historyscientist$ amon" those #ho #i participate in thehistoric anni!ersary conference #i dare to depict therea history. To testify to #hat actuay happenedbefore, durin" and after the e!ents of 1912 and ho#those are reated in the meanin" of iberation. Thise!auation #e, the Macedonians, the ati!es ofMacedonia, the Locas as they ca us, ha!e to do firstand foremost. e ha!e to do it and submit it for theyoun"er to kno#.Liberation means reief from the re"ime imposed byforei"ners that restricts the freedoms of indi"enous tothe ri"ht of expression, "o!ernment and in exercisin"their ri"hts o!er their o#n and.hat happened, ho#e!er, to the !ast ma/ority ofnati!es #ho #ere not Greek&speakin" or oman&orthodox3 To those Macedonians #ho spokeMacedonian or 4ach an"ua"e or to MusimMacedonians3 These communities #ere more than567 of the indi"enous popuation.8y the chan"es in 1912, our freedoms, not ony #erenot restored, but #ere e!en imited .The and that had been sei'ed by the (ttomanconuerors and had been con!erted to their o#nestates, #as not returned to us nati!es, but #as "i!eneither to Greeks andord as estates, or distributed tone# setters #ho took the pace of the Turks. The#eath resources of our country that #ent throu"h theexpoitation of the (ttomans, had passed to theexpoitation of the ne# ruers.More than haf of the ocas #ere forced to fee theirhomeand: some to sa!e their i!es, others to escapethe bruta oppression of the ne# re"ime and othersbecause of economic oppression.Those Macedonians #ho #ere kied, imprisoned,exied or dri!en into forced exie these 100 years, aremuch more than those #ho suffered the same in the;00 years of Turkish occupation.The administration of our country #as not passed tothe ati!es, as it #oud had in a rea iberation.


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not happen to ascribe /ustice, but because, after thecreation of the epubic of Macedonia #ithin the@u"osa! federa state and the position of for aunified and independent Macedonia durin" the )i!iar, sho#ed as !ery ikey the oss by Greece ofsouthern Macedonia. ma concessions aimed atmiti"atin" the indi"nation of the nati!es and as a

means of erosion and assimiation.ith the ne# re"ime our mother ton"ue, not ony didnot repace the Turkish one of the in!aders, but #asbanned, persecuted, au"hed at, sandered. Thetraditions and customs came under contro.)uti!ation of oca Macedonian cuture #as banned.They e!en banned the use of son"s at #eddin"s andceebrations. e #ere forbidden e!en to decaresame nationa identity and ori"in #ith our co&nationas#ho expatriated as economic mi"rants or as co&nationa poitica refu"ees.(ny due to the support of internationa or"ani'ationsand si"nature by Greece of internationa treaties on

human ri"hts, #e are abe to freey express ourse!esThanks to these besto#ed freedoms #e can takfreey about the rea history of our country and ourpeope. Thanks to ne# technoo"ies, especiay theinternet, our !oice can reach e!ery corner of thecountry and the #ord. The east #e can and #e o#eto do is to restore our di"nity, history and basichuman ri"hts.ince eary 1990 #e address the officia authoritiesand #e ask them to eiminate a forms of raciadiscrimination. Bor measures to be taken as remedyfor the in/ustices that made us to end up as thirdcass citi'ens and economicay disad!anta"ed e!en

compared to ussian&pontious #ho setted in ourocaities durin" the 1990+s. (ur ri"htfu reuest forremo!a of the racist excusion for Macedonianpoitica and economic refu"ees from the ri"ht ofrepatriation and rehabiitation, somethin" that #asdone for a other expatriates, #as not fufied.%nstead of it, a massi!e settement of ussian&pontious #ho abusi!ey are caed $repatriates$, #hohad ne!er i!ed or #ere "one from our area, tookpace.%n order for these ne# setters to sette and stay inour country, the state "a!e them pri!ie"es, #hich#ere ony for instaation in Macedonia and Thrace.

They #ere "i!en fa!orabe oans for house purchase,"ratuitous in fact, preferentiay recruited in pubicser!ices, had preferentia treatment in trade andprofessiona acti!ities, etc. And a this #as done#hie the nati!es #ere and remain economicaydisad!anta"ed, #ith hi"h proportion bein"unempoyed, sma&ando#ners, sma businesso#eners, underempoyed artisans.%t is ob!ious that this poicy ser!ed to reinforce thesettement of forei"n popuations in Macedonia, tofurther ater the composition of the popuation at theexpense of the ocas.%t is the ast sta"e of a poicy that be"an the decade

of 1910. Aso then, the state of Athens sent thema/ority of refu"ees in Macedonia to ater thecomposition of the popuation at the expense ofocas. Those popuations #ere forced to ea!e theirancestra and, to ser!e a cassic coonia poicy. They

#ere !ictims of that poicy. 8ut #ere used asa""ressors because they payed the roe of theabuser, payin" the roe as "endarmes of the ati!es.The past ecurity battaions and


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estern 8u"aria. 8ut neither in Greece, 8u"aria orerbia anyone caed it so. !eryone caed it painMacedonia.%n the stru""e for iberation of Macedonia,participated mosty the non&Greek speakin"=macedonian speakers D !ach speakers?Macedonians, as Greek speakers #ere i!in" mainy

in the o#ands and urban centers. Moreo!er, theGreek&speakin" peope #ere under the tutea"e ofthe patriarcha priesthood that recommended$obedience to the ruers.$Eurin" the Macedonian iberation stru""e noopposition, nor confict or ri!ary e!er #ere createdamon" the ocas. e!er Greek&speakin" ofMacedonia did compain about any attack or pressureby non&Greek speakin" Macedonians and ne!erasked for some protection from Greece. %nstead, athe testimony and the i!in" reaity speak of a on"astin" harmonic co&existance. %n the iberationstru""e of the Macedonians, the Greek&speakin" did

not participated, but did not undermined it, either. Theri!ary #as nurtured ater, #ith mea"er resuts,fortunatey, by those #ho did not #ant the unity of theati!es of Macedonia. Those #ho impemented thetactic of $di!ide and conuer.$ Those that fou"ht todi!ide the insur"ent Macedonians, to rei"n o!er themand o!er their and.The main di!isi!e roe #as payed, of course, by thedipomatic machanism of Greece in Macedonia andthe mechanism of the patriarcha priesthood. Andthey had their reason.After the rebeion of 1905, named %inden uprisin" asthe aunch coincided #ith the ceebration of


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out, it decided to repace it #ith a ne# anduncorrapted one. Moreo!er, this ne# rei"ion #asadoptin" the !ie# of many astern rei"ions about ahi"her God and the kin"s and priests as hisrepresentati!es on earth. Many kin"doms of the asthad on" supported the sur!i!a on this principe.Thus, they adapted it to their po#er and exhibited the

emperors and kin"s aon" #ith the bishops andpriests, as the representati!es of God on earth. %naddition, expressy its founder, -esus )hrist, is statedas $in" of in"s$. This heped peope+s sub/ection totheir spiritua and therefore their poitica po#er. %t isno coincidence that )hristianity #as adopted andimposed as the officia rei"ion by the astern omanmpire. Much of the popuations of its easternpro!inces, especiay in )appadocia, )iicia, yria,


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the church as =ex? heretics.Macedonians, to"ether #ith the Thracians, can beproud that in their homeand and from their ancestorsthe mo!ement of 8o"omies =10th&17th centuries?#as de!eoped. They are descendants of ex&heretics=exceent? ancestors. Moreo!er, the !ery #ord8o"omies =4o"omioi in Greek? is macedonian and

deri!ed from the #ord bo"a =God? and mii =dear?.The 8o"omies ar"ued, amon" other thin"s, that fromGod does not arise any po#er to peope o!er peope,God has no representati!es on earth and thereforethe bishops decei!e the peope. They re/ected thehierarchy, the ceremonies and sacraments of the)hurch and sa# the #orship of ima"es as idoatry.They refused to enist and participate in the #ars ofkin"s or pay taxes, because they did not reco"ni'ethe ri"hts of feuda princes, kin"s and the )hurch onearth, and the ike.ithout the expensi!e sacerdota !estments=amfiasacerdota !estments& $meta&amfi&esi$ in

"reek means $dressed #ith sacerdota !estments$indis"uise, masuerade? the priesthood does notinspire theofo!ia and #ithout the rituas and mysteriesdoes not submit the i"norant beie!er in physica andmetaphysica fears and dependencies, norhypnoti'es a part of his brain in order to make itinaccessibe to critica thinkin".%nstead of the mystirous rituas of the priesthood, andapart from their theoo"ica beiefs, the 8o"omiesmade popuar ceebrations and ceremonies honorin"the ife "i!in" forces of nature =fire, #ater, sprin"s,seasona chan"e, fertiity, sun, moon, etc.?, as otherindi"enous peopes of urope did. The fact that they

had re/ected the priesthood and rituas of the imperiachurch, sho#s that those ceremonies #ere not ritesof sacramenta character of the priesthood, but #erepopuar feasts in honor and in contact #ith naturaforces. These fok rituas =pa"an?, the cer"ypresented to the i"norant fock as idoater #ith Greekthou"ht and ifestye =$the Greek #ay$?. %t is nocoincidence that the adherents of 8o"omies in theest #ho #ere caed )athari =


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The remo!a of the patriarcha priesthood from theprincipes of )hristianity and its incorporation into theoi"archic structures of domination ed to theremo!in" of the ma/ority of fans from it. ith theaboition of the oman po#er #hich imposed)hristianity by force, a !ery ar"e number of)hristians /oined %sam and other faiths. The

)hristians #ho fed Asia Minor and astern Thraceafter the 8akan ars, reached ony 1.; miion, #hietens of miions #ere in 8y'antium. This, to"ether #iththe fact that no peope defended the 8y'antinere"ime, e!en #hen the capita of )onstantinope #asbesie"ed by the (ttomans, sho#s that the formersub/ect peopes did not re"arded it as somethin" oftheir o#n. %t paid his poicy to treat its citi'ens assa!es. The reati!ey "ood ima"e that the ma/ority ofModern Greek has of 8y'antium, is due to thereocation of the ruin" cass =


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%ndependence, ho#e!er, from the (ttomans did notead to an independent state, but to a dependent oneon the patron po#ers. These, not ony appointed thesupreme ruer =the 8a!arian in" (tto? and the three&member e"ency =Armansber", Mauer, ideck? butdid not appoint one sin"e Greek. They framed thestate apparatus #ith forei"n di"nitaries, as #e as the

miitary administration, excudin" those #ho made theiberation stru""e.To the popuation+s reaction that foo#ed, theyresponded #ith !ioence. )ommander ookotronis#as imprisoned and condemned e!en to death, aon"#ith other re!outionaries. Amon" the prisoners #asaso our Eimitrios aratasos, Macedonian, #ho,except his macedonian nati!e an"ua"e, spoke asoGreek. They did not "et any other choice, except tocompy and be reconcied #ith the ne# situation.Aies to the forei"ners throu"hout this process #erethe


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ancient Greeks. %t had to repace the oose a#arnessof the omios, that made them !unerabe to the%taian states =omans, 4enetians, Genoese?. Bor thesame reason the astern (rthodox.#as set as theofficia rei"ion. Moreo!er constitutionay #asdefined, instead of the ori"in or the mother ton"ue ofthe citi'ens, that: $Those indi"enous inhabitants of

the territory of Greece #ho beie!e in )hrist areGreek$ =Artice %%?. This forced the Musims Abaniansto con!ert for retainin" the ri"ht to remain in theirancestra homes. o, those Greeks, #ho #ereremnants of the mutinationa ast oman mpire,be"an to be descendants of the ancient Greeks.This ser!ed #e the interests of 8ritish and Brench intheir effort to reduce the stron" infuence of ussia inthe ne# state. %t is no coincidence that the first GreekAcademy, the %onian Academy =1C27?, #as foundedby the 8ritish, #ho then occupied the %onian %sands,in order to repace the %taian an"ua"e #hich #asunti then the officia one, #ith the Greek one. To this

heped the uropean, romantic, phiheenic currentthat #anted the re!i!a of ancient Greek cuture andpeope, in the pace #here it had de!eoped.(n the substance, these by necessity andima"ination Greeks had no bioo"ica and cuturacontinuity #ith the peope of the ancient Greeks, #hohad scattered, mer"ed and assimiated #ith do'ensof other nations under the Macedonian and omanmpires. %t had disappeared as a separate peope foro!er t#o miennia. Athens, #hich #as the center ofthe ancient Greeks, in 1C21 #as a mutinationa to#n#ith some ei"ht thousand inhabitants, #ith the ar"estethnic "roup bein" Ar!anites =Abanians?.

The term Greek meant the Greek&speakin" or thefoo#er of Greek rei"ion and phiosophy, the$participatin" in the Greek cuture.$ %t #as the same#ith the term Latino, #hich meant the Latin speakin".The modern inhabitants of )entra and outhAmerica, pain, omania, etc. are caed Latinobecause of the cuture and especiay the an"ua"e,not because they ha!e some bioo"ica continuityfrom the ancient Latin or any ori"in from the countryof the ancient Latins, La'io.To ser!e its expansionist pans the ruin" cass ofGreece cuti!ated the a#arness to its nationas thatthey are heirs, except of the ancient Greek

cooni'ation, aso of the Macedonian and asternoman mpire =8y'antium?. o, it impanted in themthe a#areness that the competitors of its expansionistpans, Turks, ussians, 8u"arians, Macedoniansseparatists, etc. erbs are enemies, of the $no&brothery$ no# Greek ation.The main competitor to the 8ritish and Brench in the8akans, the ussians, #ere the cause to cuti!ate inits o#n nationas aso an intense co&antisa!icconsciousness. The modern Greek #as tau"ht thatthe $a!ic peopes are inferior, #ithout cuture and"orious history. They are in!aders in 8y'antine8akan territories of #hich ony they =the Greeks? are

e"a heirs.$ The teachers and priests do not say tothem that the


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a"reement #ith others to share #hat it is its o#n. %naddition, in the roya decrees issued =51&10&1912? forthe administration of the occupied areas, itcharacteri'es it $conuered countries$ and ne#countries. %n the Treaty of Aiance it made #ith erbia=19&;&1915?, the #ord iberation is competeyabsent,. The #ords that dominate are $possessions$,

$and distribution$, $occupation$, $occupied territories$,$conuered countries.$ And it e!en determined itscaims to the ine $to the south of ikis ....#i direct...a itte bit east#ard of the Guf of eftheron ...$. Thatis, it did not e!en caim ikis, erres, Erama, a!aa,#here there #as soid Macedonian popuation andthe separatist mo!ement of @ane andanski #asparticuary stron".%t kne# it coud not caim and keep those areas.*o#e!er, the position of disad!anta"e of 8u"aria,#hich had occupied those areas, after the Aiance ofGreece, erbia, Montene"ro, omania and theTurkey+s offensi!e, had created prospects for Greece

to conuer more territories. %t kne#, ho#e!er, that itcoud not keep those ands in the future #ithoutha!in" dischar"ed those indi"enous popuations, so ittook care to diute them. Aon" #ith the attacks by thefi!e states to the 8u"arian army, it made attacksa"ainst ci!iians and oca popuation.Eurin" its $heroic$ march, the "reek army bombed,except the fe#, due to its muti&front stru""e,8u"arian miitary forces, aso the ci!iian popuationof to#ns and !ia"es in its path. %t destroied ikis,found first on its path, and kied many !ia"ers in thesurroundin" !ia"es, #ith the resut to terrori'e those#ho sur!i!ed and make them ea!e their homes to

sa!e themse!es from the ferocity of the in!aders.uch thin"s neither the a'is did. This terrified asothe oca popuation of other areas, resutin" inthousands to fee their homes, hopin" to return afterthe end of hostiities. %t #as the first phase of a massethnic ceansin".The poitica eadership of Greece kne# !ery #e thatthose crimes #oud ead to reprisas a"ainstpatriarcha and Greek&speakin" popuations. 8ut, aspro!ed to be, it sou"ht to use those peope as settersin areas in #hich it made ethnic ceansin".Thus, those dispaced peope shoud not compain forthe beha!ior of those #houprooted them from their

homes, and et+s see #ho actuay is to bame. (ncethey setted in the areas and properties of the !ictimsof the Greek ethnic ceansin", it #as natura for themto coect the hostie feein"s and re!en"e of the reabeneficiary o#ners of those sites. Today, the setters#ho setted in those areas in Greece ceebrate#ithout shame, perhaps out of i"norance of the reafacts, those atrocities as $iberation$, to"ether #iththe chau!inist state apparatusThis tactic #as not an isoated e!ent, but became anon"oin" nationa phiosophy. ix years ater the samearmy, by the commands of the same chau!inisticeadership, did the same crimes a"ainst the Turkish

ci!iian popuation of Asia Minor. After the successfuoperation in Macedonia, it thou"ht it coud repeat itaso there. )ountess !ia"es #ere bombed, burnedand ooted, !ia"ers and ci!iians kied or raped. o,countess #ere the cara!ans of terrified ci!iians #ho

fed to the interior of Asia Minor.The poitica eadership of Greece kne# that it #oudpro!oke retaiation by the Turks a"ainst the Greeks ofAsia Minor, but hoped to estabish popuations inthose areas it had e!acuated by brutaity. The facts,ho#e!er, #ere competey different from those ofMacedonia, #here it had aies in the other 8akan

states and the support of estern aies. Moreo!erthe Macedonian iberation mo!ement #as #eakenedafter the suppression of the %inden uprisin" =1905? bythe (ttomans, the Anti&macedonian ar =1907&190C?of heenic paramiitary "an"s and the underminin"stru""e of the bishops. That is #hy, apart from theAsia Minor )atastrophe, it did not suffer aMacedonian )atastrophe, as #e.%n Asia Minor it #as aone, #ith opponent stron"peope. The estern Aies #anted Turkey as an ay,too, and so they a!oided to support the Greekexpansionism. o, the hurt and an"ry Turks, in theircounter&offensi!e, not ony dro!e the Greek army, but,

in retaiation, expeed aso the )hristian popuation,#hich Greece had intended to use for its expansionpans.Brom a that tra"edy, citi'ens earn ony the atrocitiesof the Turks durin" the offensi!e and not #hat causedthem. The fact that 4eni'eos, #ho ordered thatcampai"n, not ony ost the eections in o!ember1920, but he e!en faied to be eected deputy,sho#ed that the peope #ere far from a"reein" #iththe expansion pans of the re"ime.That barbaric beha!ior of Greece to a its nei"hbors,ead to the painfu modern "enera concusion, that$Greece is surrounded by enemies.$ This eads many

to fee a""rie!ed, embittered and hostie to theirnei"hbors $#ho hate, en!y and conspire a"ainst theterritoria inte"rity of our country$, because they hideor do not #ant to earn themse!es, #hat suffered thenei"hbors from it. ormay, after the restoration ofdemocracy, states apoo"i'e for the crimescommitted a"ainst other peope. Greece did ne!er doit. The Macedonians #ho remained in "reek territory,apart from persecution, in/ustice, terrorism andoppression, #ere forced to under"o anunprecedented back propa"anda. They had e!en toaccept it #ithout ob/ection, other#ise they #oud ha!ebeen suspicious. They had to for"et #hat they kne#

about their history, their ori"in, their identity. xceptbuyin", aso ies, misrepresentation and sander#ere routiney used. The main ob/ecti!e #as thefor"ery of modern history.The stru""es made by the nationa iberationor"ani'ation .M..(. for independent Macedonia,are presented as stru""es not aimed at the iberationof Macedonia, but its annexation by 8u"aria. At thisheps i"norance of the truth that the inte"rated in the


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the Greek =ie patriarcha? Macedonians amacedonian conscience, independent of any otherrace. I...J ... o, after they coud, #ith art, de!eop inMacedonians the broad idea of independence ... $.Bor )aptain ota, #ho #as patriarcha, they #rotethat $he fou"ht bra!ey a"ainst the Turkish army,#ithout descriminatin" (rthodox and schismatic,

seein" a in a )hristian brotherhood and oneMacedonia.$To the same concusions reached aso the ecretaryof the mbassy of Greece in %stanbu Geor"eTsormpat'o"ou after an officia mission to )entraand estern Macedonia: $8oth the upper dream ofthe Macedonians and the ree!ant pro"ram of thetrue re!oution of Macedonia ha!e no poiticainfuence from the #i and aspirations of the8u"arian he"emony.$ Aso stated that: $Macedonianschieftains and perhaps aso the chiefs, /ust on asin"e term of their contract after the country, "et, sofar, their "reat stren"th: by the term to aim ony to

freedom of the Macedonians as Macedonians. I...J %!enture, ho#e!er, to think that it is impossibe that %am mistaken on my foo#in" impression: that, as itis today, the re!oution in Macedonia is not 8u"arianand /ust not a sin"e harm to *eenism has occuredto its present de!eopment but the maximum benefitcomes from it.$%n the report there is the ans#er to the ies about thesi'e and participation in the re!oution of theMacedonians: $... in the country the re!oution ismuch #idey spread o!er than commony isthou"htI...J a, #ithout exception, the !ia"es andestates are !ersed to the common idea in fa!or of

iberation and Greeks IMacedonians patriarchaJfanatics are important representati!es of the rebe"an"s in to#ns and !ia"es and are not fe# those#ho are secrety armed foo#ers of the "an"s. I...JThe (rthodox Greeks Iie patriarchaJ as it #asconfirmed to me by the former bishop of


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them as nationa. Greeks ha!e been sho#n of a hi"hand "orious ori"in, #hie the a!s are presented ofinferior ori"in, unci!ii'ed and in"orious. Fs, theMacedonians, they sho#ed as a!ici'ed GreekMacedonians.The concept a! durin" the )assica and *eenisticperiods did not exist. e!er there has been someone

or some peope that caed themse!es a!s. Theterm #as first used by the omans and mainy by8y'antines. They caed a!s or tha!ous orka!inous the popuations that setted in each ande!ery parts of the 8akans, from the eary sixthcentury. Their crade is considered to be )entraurope, focusin" on the )arpathian Mountains andstretchin" from omania to 10?had ori"in from the re"ion of kop/e. That is to say,they #ere $kop/ans.$ The historian of the Greekation .


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they aso imposed their name. o Moesia became8u"aria, Eacia became erbia, %yria becameAbania & )roatia,


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iberatin" re!oution #as re"uated by the humanisticprincipes of the ni"htenment and aimed toindependent epubic of Macedonia, #hich #oud"uarantee freedom and euaity to a citi'ensre"ardess of ethnic ori"in, an"ua"e, rei"iousbeiefs.@ou, citi'ens of this country, particuary those #ho

i!e in Macedonia, do a#aken and "et a#areness.@ou see, next to you, the racist discrimination, humanri"hts !ioations and terrorism practiced a"ainst youroca co&citi'ens and you keep sient, /ust as sient#ere German citi'ens #atchin" the crimes of thefascist re"ime of their country a"ainst their forei"nersco&citi'ens. @ou "ot famiiar #ith this situation and itseems norma to you. Bascism is not ony the onethat #as manifested, in the extent and extreme forms,in Germany and %tay in the 1970+s. %t is aso ho#Greece has faced non Greek&speakin" peopes afterthe conuest of the e# Territories, o!er a centurya"o. Macedonia, before 1912, #as not Greek, as you

#ere tau"ht to cry but aso, out of i"norance, tobeie!e. %t #as *eeni'ed by ethnic ceansin",cooni'ation and the !ioent heeni'ation of nonGreek&speakin" peope.A century a"o the chau!inist re"ime of Greece did notsou"ht, as it o#ed, to hep for the iberation of the)hristian brother peopes from the (ttoman yoke.Macedonians had heped iberate Greece. hen therebeion faied, in 1C22, kno#n aso as thee!oution of 4ermion, a Macedonian armed body,headed by non Greek&speakin" Tassos aratasofrom Eobra 8o"orodica %mathia =Good


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no #ritin", thou"h they kno# that not ony it has the)yriic aphabet #hich #as created in Macedonia, butit aso "a!e #ritin" to other uropean an"ua"es. The#idespread acceptance of this ra# ies, sho#s ho#they ha!e de!eoped critica thinkin" in their spirituasub/ects and ho# the iars dis"uise as messen"ers oftruth.

Anthimos can make some Macedonians to bereuctant to manifest themese!es freey and to hidetheir an"er, but he aso makes many of them to thinkho# to send him back home to


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the message of the local (native)

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