Modern Greece and the Macedonian Heritage – Part 24 - The Walls are closing in
Risto Stefov
June 14, 2009
Nowadays we hear things like "Bulgarian customs officials confiscate Vinzhito material", "Greek Fascists Disrupt Presentation of the Greek - Macedonian Dictionary in Athens", "the European Commission Vice President Jacques Barrot referred to the Republic of Macedonia as ´Northern Macedonia´", etc., and wonder what has gone wrong in this world? Can´t a tiny country like Macedonia be itself and feel safe in this so-called "civilized" world?
If you have been oppressed like the Macedonians and have been under one or another´s thumb for a couple of millenniums you too will wonder "what have you done that was so wrong to deserve all this?" If my grandfather was still alive he would say, "Be patient my boy we have endured a lot and our time will come some day". And I suppose it is "hope" like his that kept us "alive" for this long! But unfortunately I do not have my grandfather´s patience or humility so rather than leave my destiny completely to fate, I want some answers!
Well, what have we done to deserve all this?
We have done nothing! But a more appropriate question would be "why are all these people doing this to us?"
Well, if you look at each individual incident separately you will find that each of these people or entities appears to have some issue with us. They don´t want us to succeed as Macedonians! For some reason or another they don´t like us and our presence is causing them discomfort. But why? We are not a threat to them. All these "countries" which have "a problem with us" are militarily more powerful so what possible threat could we be to them?
Well, we are not a military threat but rather a threat of the "embarrassing kind".
You see Europe has historically wronged the Macedonian people many times for various reasons. Most recently Europe wronged us in 1878 when we were liberated and then given back to the Ottomans without any assurances or safeguards that we would not be further abused. Then they wronged us in 1912, 1913 and 1919 when they signed various Treaties allowing our neighbours to occupy us, partition our country and annex it for themselves; again without any safeguards that we would not be harmed. What happened to us in 1878 and is happening to us to this day is not an accident but rather well planned by the Western Europeans. But worse than that, and bordering on the insane, is for "whom" did the Western Europeans do all this?
If you have been reading these articles by now you would know that, ethnically speaking, "there is no such thing as a Greek". And yes you guessed it; the Europeans "sacrificed" Macedonia for the sake of Greece, an artificially created nation of their own making. They took Macedonia from the Macedonian people and gave it to the "fake" Greeks whom they created from the ashes of the Slav, Albanian and Vlach cultures which just happened to exist on the same soil as the ancient cultures the Western Europeans wanted to imitate!
How is that for a "slap on the face"?
So that there is no misunderstanding I will say it again. France, Britain and Germany, and there may have been others, possibly Russia, took Macedonia away from the Macedonian people and gave it to a bunch of undeserving Greek wannabe Slavs, Albanians and Vlachs who were not only NOT Greeks and had nothing to do with the ancient people who lived on those lands, but were themselves the descendents of "recent immigrants". They gave our Macedonia away to non-Macedonians who themselves are descendents of immigrants who came to live in the Peloponnesus from the 11th to the 15th century. Then in the 1920´s Western Europeans allowed Greece to settle another 1.1 million Christian Turkish settlers, of whom more than half were settled in Macedonia, and today Greece portrays these Turks as the "real" Macedonians, descendants of the ancient Macedonians no less, and we the indigenous Macedonians roam the world as permanent political refugees being cast out by Greece! Would you not feel "ashamed" if you were responsible for all this? And yes, Western Europeans were party to all this!
So, rather than "correcting" past wrongs and apologizing to the Macedonian people for what they did, Western Europeans today look for ways to "permanently silence" the Macedonians because they are a constant reminder of a "reckless" past not only for committing atrocities but for the "insane" reasons for which they were committed.
Greece was "artificially created" to lay the foundation for a Western European Civilization. This was done, in large part, at the expense of Macedonia and the Macedonian people. The name "Macedonia" is therefore a constant reminder to the Western Europeans that the very foundation that supports their modern Western European culture is a rotten, "false" foundation resting on the corpse of Macedonia.
If I had my grandfather´s faith I would say "that corpse upon which the European foundation is laid is still alive and one day will rise and expose the Western Europeans for what they truly are."
But if history has anything to say, the Macedonians are not about to disappear and will continue to cause Western Europe "discomfort" until Western Europe learns to be "truly democratic", faces its fears and gets rid of its old skeletons.
Every country in the world has cleansed itself of its past "wrongs" and as you are reading this, Cambodia is going through that process right now. Every country has come clean except, of course, Greece and Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Greece have "escaped" their punishments for what they have done to their minorities and have yet to exorcise themselves of their past demons. Both Greece and Bulgaria, to this day, desperately "hang on with all their might" to old beliefs that somehow they are "special", "homogeneous" and "superior" to the rest of us. Beliefs that should be dead and gone; beliefs that belong in the past together with "Nazism and Fascism".
Macedonians are here to stay and Greece and Bulgaria along with their "patrons and protectors" must learn to deal with it.
As for Macedonia´s neighbour to the South, we are not done with you yet! As long as you deny our existence and continue to oppress our Macedonian compatriots living on Greek occupied Macedonian soil, we will continue to expose your artificiality and the atrocities you have committed against the Macedonians and other minorities.
It is interesting to note that most Greeks know that their identity is artificial but go along with the majority pretending to be Greeks anyway. What puzzles me is that they, knowing that they are an artificial nation themselves, have the audacity to deny the Macedonians their identity.
There is however a hidden purpose to "pretending to be Greek", which has little to do with "ethnicity" but a lot to do with "being positioned" high up on the "ladder" of Greek society. Greece, to this day, values and employs "loyal Greeks" at its highest paid positions irrespective of competence, so it is understandable that there are so many scandals in the country. "Real Greeks" (the ones deeply committed to Hellenism) as one Greek professor put it to me, "work in Greece in businesses or in highly paid positions of power" in the Greek government. When I asked him, "who then are the Greeks behind the so-called ´Australian Macedonian Advisory Council´?" To my surprise the professor said "they are your kind" and would not elaborate on what "your kind" means. So I assume he meant "Hellenized Macedonians". But what surprised even the good professor is "if they were such loyal Greeks, why have they left Greece for Australia?" Like the professor said, "loyal Greeks work in Greece". To have left their beloved Greece for Australia means that they were not "good enough Greeks" to be in "good positions" in Greece which puts them at the top of the list for not only being traitors to their own true identity but also "losers" to the Greek identity they value so much and work so hard for.
Let´s face it, every "intelligent Greek" pretends to be a patriotic Greek because it is popular and has its benefits. If you play along with the big boy Great Western European Powers, and be their loyal dog of the female gender, you not only get a country with an illustrious name and history but you also get someone else´s country with an even more illustrious history to boot. I guess "selling your identity" has a price but look at the benefits you get in return? Unfortunately we Macedonians are not "clever enough" to be someone´s loyal dog of the female kind and that is why we not only lost our country but were forced to accept three new and "false" identities.
What were we thinking?
Oh Europe you have messed up so bad it will take years of "psychological treatment" to get you un-messed. If only the world knew what you have done!
Have you noticed how foreigners, particularly Western Europeans, think of the so-called "Balkan mentality" and how "irrational" the people in the Balkans are? Well whose fault is that? We lived without borders as Christians for thousands of years and had no problems among ourselves until the Western Europeans came with their "imperialist" and nationalist ideals and created Greece, the "Frankenstein child of Europe" and gave it a fake identity and instilled in it "dreams of grandeur". After all that they have the audacity to blame us for "acting weird"? How would you act if Frankenstein´s monster lived next door to you?
"The Greeks had not taken very much interest in their past until Europeans became enthusiastic discoverers and diggers of their ruins. And why should they have cared? The Greeks were not Greek, but rather the illiterate descendents of Slavs and Albanian fisherman, who spoke a debased Greek dialect and had little interest in broken columns and temples except as places to graze their sheep. The true Philhellenes were the English – of whom Byron was the epitome – and the French, who were passionate to link themselves with the Greek ideal. This rampant and irrational Phili-Hellenism, which amounted almost to a religion, was also a reaction to the confident dominance of the Ottoman Turks, who were widely regarded as savages and heathens.
The contradiction persists, even today: Greek food is actually Turkish food, and many words we think of as distinctive Greek, are in reality Turkish. – kebab, doner, kofta, meze, taramsalada, dolma, yogurt, mussaka, and so forth; all Turkish." ("The Pillars of Hercules" by Paul Thereoux", page 316)
And now I will leave you with this;
"The sign of the entrance at Delphi said ´Show proper respect´ and ´It is forbidden to sing or make loud noises´ and ´Do not pose in front of ancient stones´.
I saw a pair of rambunctious Greek youths being reprimanded by an officious little man, for flinging their arms out and posing for pictures. The man twitched a stick at them and sent them away.
Why was this? It was just what you would expect to happen if you put a pack of ignoramuses in charge of a jumble of marble artifacts they had no way of comprehending. They would in their impressionable stupidity begin to venerate the mute stones and make up a lot of silly rules. This ´Show Proper Respect´ business and ´No Posing´ was an absurd and desperate transfer of the orthodoxies of the Greek´s tenacious Christianity, as they applied the severe prohibitions of their church to the ruins. Understanding little of the meaning of the stones, they could only see them in terms of their present religious beliefs; and so they imposed a sort of sanctity to the ruins. This ridiculous solemnity was universal in Greece." ("The Pillars of Hercules" by Paul Thereoux")
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
If you have been oppressed like the Macedonians and have been under one or another´s thumb for a couple of millenniums you too will wonder "what have you done that was so wrong to deserve all this?" If my grandfather was still alive he would say, "Be patient my boy we have endured a lot and our time will come some day". And I suppose it is "hope" like his that kept us "alive" for this long! But unfortunately I do not have my grandfather´s patience or humility so rather than leave my destiny completely to fate, I want some answers!
Well, what have we done to deserve all this?
We have done nothing! But a more appropriate question would be "why are all these people doing this to us?"
Well, if you look at each individual incident separately you will find that each of these people or entities appears to have some issue with us. They don´t want us to succeed as Macedonians! For some reason or another they don´t like us and our presence is causing them discomfort. But why? We are not a threat to them. All these "countries" which have "a problem with us" are militarily more powerful so what possible threat could we be to them?
Well, we are not a military threat but rather a threat of the "embarrassing kind".
You see Europe has historically wronged the Macedonian people many times for various reasons. Most recently Europe wronged us in 1878 when we were liberated and then given back to the Ottomans without any assurances or safeguards that we would not be further abused. Then they wronged us in 1912, 1913 and 1919 when they signed various Treaties allowing our neighbours to occupy us, partition our country and annex it for themselves; again without any safeguards that we would not be harmed. What happened to us in 1878 and is happening to us to this day is not an accident but rather well planned by the Western Europeans. But worse than that, and bordering on the insane, is for "whom" did the Western Europeans do all this?
If you have been reading these articles by now you would know that, ethnically speaking, "there is no such thing as a Greek". And yes you guessed it; the Europeans "sacrificed" Macedonia for the sake of Greece, an artificially created nation of their own making. They took Macedonia from the Macedonian people and gave it to the "fake" Greeks whom they created from the ashes of the Slav, Albanian and Vlach cultures which just happened to exist on the same soil as the ancient cultures the Western Europeans wanted to imitate!
How is that for a "slap on the face"?
So that there is no misunderstanding I will say it again. France, Britain and Germany, and there may have been others, possibly Russia, took Macedonia away from the Macedonian people and gave it to a bunch of undeserving Greek wannabe Slavs, Albanians and Vlachs who were not only NOT Greeks and had nothing to do with the ancient people who lived on those lands, but were themselves the descendents of "recent immigrants". They gave our Macedonia away to non-Macedonians who themselves are descendents of immigrants who came to live in the Peloponnesus from the 11th to the 15th century. Then in the 1920´s Western Europeans allowed Greece to settle another 1.1 million Christian Turkish settlers, of whom more than half were settled in Macedonia, and today Greece portrays these Turks as the "real" Macedonians, descendants of the ancient Macedonians no less, and we the indigenous Macedonians roam the world as permanent political refugees being cast out by Greece! Would you not feel "ashamed" if you were responsible for all this? And yes, Western Europeans were party to all this!
So, rather than "correcting" past wrongs and apologizing to the Macedonian people for what they did, Western Europeans today look for ways to "permanently silence" the Macedonians because they are a constant reminder of a "reckless" past not only for committing atrocities but for the "insane" reasons for which they were committed.
Greece was "artificially created" to lay the foundation for a Western European Civilization. This was done, in large part, at the expense of Macedonia and the Macedonian people. The name "Macedonia" is therefore a constant reminder to the Western Europeans that the very foundation that supports their modern Western European culture is a rotten, "false" foundation resting on the corpse of Macedonia.
If I had my grandfather´s faith I would say "that corpse upon which the European foundation is laid is still alive and one day will rise and expose the Western Europeans for what they truly are."
But if history has anything to say, the Macedonians are not about to disappear and will continue to cause Western Europe "discomfort" until Western Europe learns to be "truly democratic", faces its fears and gets rid of its old skeletons.
Every country in the world has cleansed itself of its past "wrongs" and as you are reading this, Cambodia is going through that process right now. Every country has come clean except, of course, Greece and Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Greece have "escaped" their punishments for what they have done to their minorities and have yet to exorcise themselves of their past demons. Both Greece and Bulgaria, to this day, desperately "hang on with all their might" to old beliefs that somehow they are "special", "homogeneous" and "superior" to the rest of us. Beliefs that should be dead and gone; beliefs that belong in the past together with "Nazism and Fascism".
Macedonians are here to stay and Greece and Bulgaria along with their "patrons and protectors" must learn to deal with it.
As for Macedonia´s neighbour to the South, we are not done with you yet! As long as you deny our existence and continue to oppress our Macedonian compatriots living on Greek occupied Macedonian soil, we will continue to expose your artificiality and the atrocities you have committed against the Macedonians and other minorities.
It is interesting to note that most Greeks know that their identity is artificial but go along with the majority pretending to be Greeks anyway. What puzzles me is that they, knowing that they are an artificial nation themselves, have the audacity to deny the Macedonians their identity.
There is however a hidden purpose to "pretending to be Greek", which has little to do with "ethnicity" but a lot to do with "being positioned" high up on the "ladder" of Greek society. Greece, to this day, values and employs "loyal Greeks" at its highest paid positions irrespective of competence, so it is understandable that there are so many scandals in the country. "Real Greeks" (the ones deeply committed to Hellenism) as one Greek professor put it to me, "work in Greece in businesses or in highly paid positions of power" in the Greek government. When I asked him, "who then are the Greeks behind the so-called ´Australian Macedonian Advisory Council´?" To my surprise the professor said "they are your kind" and would not elaborate on what "your kind" means. So I assume he meant "Hellenized Macedonians". But what surprised even the good professor is "if they were such loyal Greeks, why have they left Greece for Australia?" Like the professor said, "loyal Greeks work in Greece". To have left their beloved Greece for Australia means that they were not "good enough Greeks" to be in "good positions" in Greece which puts them at the top of the list for not only being traitors to their own true identity but also "losers" to the Greek identity they value so much and work so hard for.
Let´s face it, every "intelligent Greek" pretends to be a patriotic Greek because it is popular and has its benefits. If you play along with the big boy Great Western European Powers, and be their loyal dog of the female gender, you not only get a country with an illustrious name and history but you also get someone else´s country with an even more illustrious history to boot. I guess "selling your identity" has a price but look at the benefits you get in return? Unfortunately we Macedonians are not "clever enough" to be someone´s loyal dog of the female kind and that is why we not only lost our country but were forced to accept three new and "false" identities.
What were we thinking?
Oh Europe you have messed up so bad it will take years of "psychological treatment" to get you un-messed. If only the world knew what you have done!
Have you noticed how foreigners, particularly Western Europeans, think of the so-called "Balkan mentality" and how "irrational" the people in the Balkans are? Well whose fault is that? We lived without borders as Christians for thousands of years and had no problems among ourselves until the Western Europeans came with their "imperialist" and nationalist ideals and created Greece, the "Frankenstein child of Europe" and gave it a fake identity and instilled in it "dreams of grandeur". After all that they have the audacity to blame us for "acting weird"? How would you act if Frankenstein´s monster lived next door to you?
"The Greeks had not taken very much interest in their past until Europeans became enthusiastic discoverers and diggers of their ruins. And why should they have cared? The Greeks were not Greek, but rather the illiterate descendents of Slavs and Albanian fisherman, who spoke a debased Greek dialect and had little interest in broken columns and temples except as places to graze their sheep. The true Philhellenes were the English – of whom Byron was the epitome – and the French, who were passionate to link themselves with the Greek ideal. This rampant and irrational Phili-Hellenism, which amounted almost to a religion, was also a reaction to the confident dominance of the Ottoman Turks, who were widely regarded as savages and heathens.
The contradiction persists, even today: Greek food is actually Turkish food, and many words we think of as distinctive Greek, are in reality Turkish. – kebab, doner, kofta, meze, taramsalada, dolma, yogurt, mussaka, and so forth; all Turkish." ("The Pillars of Hercules" by Paul Thereoux", page 316)
And now I will leave you with this;
"The sign of the entrance at Delphi said ´Show proper respect´ and ´It is forbidden to sing or make loud noises´ and ´Do not pose in front of ancient stones´.
I saw a pair of rambunctious Greek youths being reprimanded by an officious little man, for flinging their arms out and posing for pictures. The man twitched a stick at them and sent them away.
Why was this? It was just what you would expect to happen if you put a pack of ignoramuses in charge of a jumble of marble artifacts they had no way of comprehending. They would in their impressionable stupidity begin to venerate the mute stones and make up a lot of silly rules. This ´Show Proper Respect´ business and ´No Posing´ was an absurd and desperate transfer of the orthodoxies of the Greek´s tenacious Christianity, as they applied the severe prohibitions of their church to the ruins. Understanding little of the meaning of the stones, they could only see them in terms of their present religious beliefs; and so they imposed a sort of sanctity to the ruins. This ridiculous solemnity was universal in Greece." ("The Pillars of Hercules" by Paul Thereoux")
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
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