13) Appendix:
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This article is from the Macedonia FAQ, by Angelos Karageorgiou angelos@iqs.gr with numerous contributions by others.
13) Appendix:
All the above points are easily supported by availlable evidence, a
thimblefull of which appears below. The extent of propaganda unleashed
against Greece on this issue is simply staggering. FYROM is believed to
use the Soros development funds on an international smear campaign.
Collection of various FYROMian propaganda items.
Quotes:
"A major campaign will soon be underway to inform the rest of the
Balkans about the truth concerning the sections of the Macedonian
people in Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria who were divided and ENSLAVED
after the Balkan Wars. The leading Macedonian nationalist parties,
in their desire to see a larger Macedonia, made no secret of their
intention to bring these territories back within the sovereign state,
and do not hide their determination that it is only a matter of days
before the power of Macedonia redraws the borders of Bulgaria, Greece
and Serbia."
(Kiro Gligorov, interview in the
periodical Nin, Feb. 1, 1991)
"Actually, WE FORESEE a unification of all the parts of Macedonia
the Pirin, the Aegean, the Vardar (presently the INDEPENDENT
Republic), and Mala Prespa/Golo Brdo. That will be achieved in a
peaceful manner, for NOONE CAN DENY THE RESOLVE OF THE MACEDONIANS
TO LIVE IN A MACEDONIAN STATE **FREE OF FOREIGN RULE**. Macedonia
was divided among its neighbors in 1913; it's time it got reunified."
(Boris Docevski, Brainwashed Internet Propagandist,
posted in soc.culture.greek on April 21, 1995)
Instances of the FYROMian misinformation campaign:
On 17 June 1990, the founding conference of VMRO-DPMNE
(the 'Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation'),
the extreme nationalist party within the 'Socialist
Republic of Macedonia (SRM), adopted a proclamation stating,
inter alia, that it would "fight for a free, autonomous and
united Macedonia" within the framework of a prospective "European
federation " on the basis of "the Ilinden ideals". VMRO won more
seats than any other party at the elections in the SRM, with 37
out of a total of 120.
Ljupce Georgievski, President of VMRO, has stated that he
is "in favour of the spiritual, intellectual and territorial
unification of Macedonia" (Borba, 31.12.90). On 7 November
1990 he had this to say: "The Macedonia of Pirin, the Aegean
and the Vardar is not Greater Macedonia: it is simply Macedonia.
We shall be talking of Greater Macedonia when we claim Belgrade, Sofa,
Thessaly, Valona and elsewhere".
During a tour of Canada, Vasil Tupurkovski-who represented Skopje in
the former collective Presidency of Yugoslavia-made the following
statement on television: "Europe has already proved that it can
resolve the question of unification among peoples, as happened in the
case of Germany. And if that can be done once in Europe, there is no
reason why Europe should hold itself aloof from the national ideals of
a people such as the Macedonian people ".
Asked by a journalist whether the Macedonians ought to struggle harder
for cultural and spiritual unification rather than territorial unity,
he replied: "I believe that the national ideal cannot be subjected to
constraints, and that it includes territorial unification ".
SRM deputy K. Petrov submitted a VMRO-supported proposal to the
Parliament of Skopje early in January 1991 calling for the adoption of
a declaration concerning the independence and sovereignty of the SRM
and for it to submit to the international organisations claims "for the
return of territories held by Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania,
which belong to the SRM by virtue of the fact that Macedonians live
there".
An extract from an article in the periodical Nin (1 February 1991):
"The new President of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov, has stated that a
major campaign will soon be under way to inform the rest of the Balkans
about the truth concerning the sections of the Macedonian people
in Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria who were divided and enslaved after
the Balkan Wars. The leading Macedonian nationalist parties, in their
desire to see a larger Macedonia, make no secret of their intention
to bring these territories back within the sovereign state, and
do not hide their determination that it is only a matter of days
before the power of Macedonia redraws the borders of Bulgaria,
Greece and Serbia ".
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