Modern Greece and the Macedonian Heritage Part 20 The Macedonian Party?
Well for people who believe they are pure Greeks, direct descendents from the ancient Greeks, even though they are not Greeks at all, anything is possible. For people who descended from Slavs, Albanians and Vlachs and still believe they are Greeks, descendants of the ancient Greeks, anything is possible. For people who believe that Alexander the Great, the same Alexander the Great who conquered and brutally suppressed their so-called "ancient Greek ancestors", is their national hero, then anything is possible.
When I first read the story that a new political party was formed in Greece, calling itself the "Macedonian Party", I thought "how wonderful", for a split second. Then reality hit. How is it possible for Greece to have a political party that represents the non-existent Macedonian minority? I knew there had to be a catch. A political party is being formed that wants to elect members to the European Parliament in the June elections. The catch however is that this is NOT a "Macedonian Party" at all but rather a "fake" Macedonian party created by Greeks for the purpose of usurping the name "Macedonia". This time the Greeks are using a different angle to approach the same old problem. They want to hold onto Macedonia and the Macedonian heritage the best way they know how; by lying and cheating.
As we know the Modern Greeks are not Greeks at all. We know they were created by the Philhellenes from the Slav, Albanian and Vlach immigrants who migrated to Greece during the 11th to the 14th century AD. We also know that the Greek people living in Greek occupied Macedonia today are not Greeks at all. Of the total people living in Greek occupied Macedonia the majority are not even Macedonians. Greece has been importing people into Macedonia since it invaded, occupied, partitioned and annexed Macedonian lands in 1912, 1913. Greece has imported Albanians and Vlachs from Albania, 1,100,000 Christian Turks from Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Russia, Armenia, etc. In fact Greece is importing people from all over the world today as we speak and is still calling them Greeks. So the Modern Greeks, being neither Macedonians nor Greeks, in essence have no "real" claim to Macedonia or to the Macedonian heritage so they have no choice but to resort to lying and cheating.
The new Greek Party founded by the so-called "World committee for the Protection of Macedonia" is another ploy to lay claim to the name "Macedonia", through the European Parliament. The Party´s aim is to block the Republic of Macedonia from entering the European Union with the name "Macedonia".
"It is of great importance for Macedonian Hellenism to join the European Parliament with the name ´Macedonia´, ´Macedonian´, ´Macedonians´, in order to guarantee that Macedonia belongs only to Greece, before Skopje has a chance to do this for itself. If the Greeks, who are the real Macedonians, enter the European Parliament with this name then the fake Macedonians will not be able to do so", said Konstantinos Kalfa committee member of the "World committee for the Protection of Macedonia", as quoted by Kanal 5.
(Note how the fake Greeks refer to the real Macedonians as fakes).
According to its founders, "the party will fight to protect the name, history and rights of the large Macedonian minority [of the Greek kind], estimated to number 3,500,000 and is spread all over the world".
So if I understand this correctly, the non-existent Macedonian minority that Greece has denied ever existed, now exists, suddenly overnight. It exists somewhat as "Macedonian" but not really because the Greek types of Macedonians are really "ethnic Greeks" who happened to live in Macedonia. We know however that there is no such thing as "ethnic Greeks" because the Modern Greek identity is not real but a Philhellene artificial creation! So if ethnic Greeks don´t really exist then these Macedonians who supposedly are "ethnic Greeks" in reality don´t exist either. But wait a minute aren´t the Greeks now telling us that they do exist, and that there are 3.5 million of them all over the world? Confused? Perhaps now you can appreciate the expression "it´s all Greek to me"! In other words "it´s too complicated for us non-Greeks to understand!"
Forget what the Greeks are telling you and focus on what they are trying to do. This is not about "ethnicities", "languages", "cultures" or histories it´s about the expropriation of Macedonian lands and robbing the Macedonian people of their heritage. Lying and cheating is a "Greek specialty", this is how they built their fake identity and artificial country. They have lied to the world from the day the Philhellenes brought them into their artificial existence. But no matter how hard they try to suppress the truth it will eventually resurface.
What I don´t understand however is why do they have to lie? Everyone knows they are lying; why not admit to the truth? Why not say that in this world "might is right" and as long we they have the "might" we will do whatever we want. They suppress the Macedonian people because they can and will hold onto their lands as long as they can.
I don´t know why they have to lie about their fake identity either? They are Greeks because they want to be Greeks, it´s as simple as that. Better still why not admit that they are the descendents of Slav, Albanian and Vlach immigrants? What is wrong with that? We are all immigrants here is Canada, with the exception of the indigenous people we found here when we colonized their lands, and we are not ashamed of it and no Canadian needs to lie about it.
We know Greece suffers from anxiety, we have known this for many years. The whole world knows that Greece and Greeks are artificially created entities and that they suffer from anxiety. The only cure for their anxiety is for them to accept the truth. No more lies and pretending will lead to no more anxiety! Anxiety makes Greeks panic and panic causes them to behave irrationally. Behaving irrationally towards their neighbours causes their neighbours to behave irrationally right back. The Republic of Macedonia is forced to behave this way because Greece behaves this way. Most of Europe, catering to Greece´s anxiety, also behaves this way. How else do you explain the "name game"? Is it rational for one country to "demand" of another to change its name? Is it rational for European Union countries to demand the Republic of Macedonia change its name? No! Why then are they behaving this way if not because of Greece´s anxiety?
The European Union it seems will accept fake countries like Greece but will not accept the Republic of Macedonia, that is until it changes its name and it too becomes a fake country. This makes one wonder if the European Union itself is a club for fakes. Again, I will ask the reader to look at the European Union for what it does and not for what it says. The EU has many rules and regulations that support minority and human rights in its member states but at the same time it allows its member states to practice racism and discrimination against their minorities. It seems that EU rules and regulations apply to "others" and not to its own members! All those human rights laws in its books and none of them can help the Macedonians in Greece or in Bulgaria.
If the European Union will allow racist organizations like the fake "Macedonian Party" in its Parliament whose only aim is to rob the Macedonian people of their lands and heritage, then what does that say about the European Union? Some people think that members of the European Parliament are ignorant of the Macedonian people´s real issues with Greece and Bulgaria. Others say they are indifferent. If that were true then those who are ignorant should by now have learned something after 17 years of playing the "name game". And those who are indifferent should have remained indifferent. Why have European Union countries sided with Greece demanding that Macedonia change its name?
"Greece´s movement to build a national identity, however, contained a unique element not shared by others: external support and even pressure, for a specific kind of new identity. The British, French and Russians demanded that the modern Greek identity be Hellenic and respond to the Europeans´ nostalgia for the restoration of a pre-Christian Hellenic civilization that has been in eclipse for some two thousand years. Europeans confidently expected to see the characteristic of Homer in post liberation Greeks, in spite of the ebb and flow of history over such a great span of time. The neoclassicism that rose in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe as an aesthetic and philosophical idea was to be physically embodied in modern-day Greece. The idealistic and hopeful attitudes of neoclassicism that would later be imposed on the Greeks was succinctly expressed in 1822 when American President James Monroe declared: ´The mention of Greece fills the mind with the utmost exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is susceptible´.
In reality, however, just before the Greek war of independence, most Greeks still referred to themselves as Romans. Vlachavas, the priest rebel leader who rose against the Ottomans, declared, ´A Romneos I was born, a Romneos I will die´.
Some Europeans and the few Americans who came to help Greece start a new nation-state, were disappointed even indignant, to discover among Greece´s peasants there were no warrior-heroes like Achilles or Ajax, no statesmen like Pericles, no philosophers like Socrates or Plato and no poets of the caliber of Aeschylus or Sophocles. There was, in fact, little likeness between nineteenth century Greeks and the idealized Greeks from ancient history that had such hold on the imagination of European liberators." ("Blood Lines form Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism", by Vamik Volkan pages 121 and 122).
"In Eastern Europe since 1990, the treatment of minorities seems quite contrary to the recent development in Western Europe, which reversed the earlier positions in both parts of Europe. If there have been any results from the High Commissioner´s mission in the three serious cases of the Russians (and other minorities) in the Baltic, the Roma and the Sinti throughout Europe, and the Macedonians in Greece, nothing substantial has so far emerged about them. The High Commissioner has been in existence since the beginning of 1993, and Max ven der Stoel has been exclusively active in Eastern Europe throughout the period until retirement mid-2001 when the new Commissioner Ralf Ekeus took over. After the first period of four years there was an analysis of Ven der Stoel´s efforts; due to the OSCE´s discrete policy, assuring effected states of ´absolute´ confidentiality, the relevant information is still lacking. The age of secret diplomacy in minority matters is not over in Europe." ("Ethnicity Nationalism and Violence", by Christian P. Scherrer, page 253)
"Because of Greece´s almost hysterical reaction, the state [Republic of Macedonia] was not admitted to the UN until the end of 1992 under the absurd appellation ´former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia´. The successive Greek governments allegedly took offense at the symbolism of the name (the Macedonia of Philip II, the native land of Alexander the Great) and at the flag (a sun with sixteen rays on a red background) although Macedonia had born this name as a Yugoslavian Republic since 1948." ("Ethnicity Nationalism and Violence", by Christian P. Scherrer, page 283)
"The key premise in Humboldt´s idea is that Hellenic civilization assumed a transcendental significance because it testified to a cultural and linguistic purity. This claim was historically absurd and even antithetical to the paradigm of comparative linguistics, which was the core of philological inquiry.
In practical terms, however, the historical absurdity of declaring Hellenic civilization the expression of a culture uncontaminated by foreign elements can be explained by a simple fact that usually tends to be disregarded namely, that Hellenic civilizations as we know it was in effect the invention of the ´Science of Antiquity´ of Classics. As such, it could have been (and was) endowed with whatever signification the discipline found useful.
The invention of Hellenic civilization shows the profound power of philology as a method to cultural knowledge indeed, as knowledge." ("Dream Nation" by Stathis Gourgouris, pages 133 and 134)
" for more than a century, Greek schoolbooks have stressed the unbroken continuity and diachronic and homogeneity of Greek civilization and culture, with the results that Greeks tend to believe without question in this construction of Romantic nationalist historiography. According to this ideology, what is labeled with the timeless and semantically vague abstract term ´Hellenism´ together with its language is a healthy organism that for 4,000 years has either resisted or assimilated foreign influences; alteration is viewed as adulteration, while outside influences are viewed as threats." ("Hellenisms Culture, Identity and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity", edited by Katerina Zacharia, page 303)
"According to the narrative of Philhellenism, after nearly two millennium of imperial rule first under the Byzantines and then under the Ottomans a newly defined Greek nation could reunite with its glorified ancient heritage and, lead by monarchs of German and Danish ancestry, revive the traditions that had inspired western Europe to greatness. Yet Hellenism had to be invented in Europe as the cornerstone of Western Civilization before it could be imported to Greece as a nationalist movement. A combination of the real and imagined culture of the ancient Greeks became, in various guises, a heritage to which all could lay claim.
Hellenism became a pan-European endeavour that spanned the course of many centuries and found varied forms of expression in different countries.
Germans came to conflate modern Germany with the ancient Greek world. By the end of the nineteenth century for example, the archeologist Ernst Curtious could justify large scale archeological expeditions to Greece by simply explaining that ´Germany herself has inwardly appropriated Greek culture´.
Similarly, in England ancient Greece became a model for nineteenth century citizens.
It stood as proof of the superiority of the West over the barbaric East; as such it presented one more reason for the civilization of the East through European colonization." ("Possessors and Possessed" by Wendy M. K. Shaw, pages 62 to 64)
After reading the above perhaps the reader will come to appreciate why Europe is so fond of Greece.
For those who are still not convinced that the Modern Greek identity is an artificial creation, please continue to read this series of articles.
Author´s note:
Dear Macedonians, one way to defend ourselves from the Greek onslaught and gain back our identity and dignity is to fight back to the level to which the Greeks have reduced us; that is to attack their identity as they have attacked ours. We need prove nothing to them except to expose them as the artificial identity they truly are and to uncover their design to wipe us out in order to usurp our Macedonian heritage.
To be Continued.
Many thanks to TrueMacedonian from www.maknews.com for his contribution to this article.
You can contact the author at rstefov@hotmail.com

