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20080227_THOUGHTS ABOUT MACEDONIA (OF GREECE OF COURSE)

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            The fact is that we Greeks  when we went to school we didn’t  always give the best value to  theoretical courses like history. Moreover, the way we used to study the lessons like parots didn’t give us the right to dwell a little more on what read. This system, namely papagalia (from parrot in Greek), was condemned by many people, but had never changed.
So when asking new kids what we celebrate on 25 March, they respond very confident that marks the anniversary of big NO in 1940 etc. In recent years our history is learnt from the television with the reporting of the documenters analyses, and the "windows". One of them we have heard is that somewhere in the north, there is an area that coincidentally has the same name as a historic-geographical district and requires that name and put it as authoritative and internationally.
            In our history, with the  papagalia system of learning we take the information that in the north of our country is the region of Macedonia with its districts  and ... its Cokapital Thessaloniki. Really ... Do you know other countries to have two kapitals? Now we learn that this big district of ours is extending towards ... Up, which surpassed our borders and "transformed" to a new state (?), which it wants to be also said, as ... Macedonia.

           Then, through TV, we have learned that Tito was calling it in this way since 1964, but luckily it would not have to be Separated from the others in the Former Yugoslavia but ... We didn’t mind. We had other things to deal with.
          Before 17 years (unfortunately, I was not there) we got out on the streets because we realised that we had neighbours "Macedonians", people who had just been waking up from the lethargy of the socialist period of sustainable and discovered that they were descendants of Alexander the Great. A label that they consider will give them momentum and vision in their history and they will raise ethical, remedying them from the multiple injuries which were left them the previous regime.
         Today we have to look at ... Dilemma of whether to tell them Macedonians Upper Lower Macedonians There and Here... under of a big international and American pressure. How have we come this far? What mistakes have led us to this impasse? Why should always brings you to prove that we are not elephants? The unilateral recognition of Kosovo, "Macedonian", Turkey in Kurdistan what do all these means for a country like us who like to be distinguished from the Balkans ... (To our village?)
            Perhaps we could say some views on this

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romanticboygr

romanticboygr wrote on Mar 02, 04:24 PM

Nova Gorna Makedonija has nothing to do with Ancient, original, Greek Macedonia ...

It is a Slavish/Albanian creature of nation, whose population arrived in the region approx. 10 centuries after Alexander the Great ...

On the other hand I recognize how desparate they are to steal a history and get an ID as a nation as soon they will have a civil war there after the creation of Kossovo between Slavs and Albanians ...

But instead of taking the hadn of friendship that Greece offered them becoming the number one investor in their country and offering them jobs to the so many who pass the borders daily, they try with Americans' government tolerance if not encouragement to continue their provocations against Greece (see efforts to steal history, symbols and signs, maps showing their country including half of Greece etc.) ...

Personally I support A BIG, BIG, BIG, VERY VERY BIG VETO to their entrance in EU and NATO just to give them the time they need to think constructively ... I am not sure even though if after these thoughts their artificial nation will still be on the map with the events expected in Kossovo but we will not solve their problems ...

modulo

modulo wrote on Mar 03, 04:49 AM

Thank you for contributing... RomanticBoy...

         Some People think that they we are "Romantics" when we just try to tell to the whole world that some "friends" of us are trying and they will manage (I thing this is true) to steel, rob or whatever english word a part of our History. I really don't know waht can WE do except writting, making parades, or shouting. What do they want? A fight? A war? In other times we could be at war after all of those! I respect their efforts to be "a country" but please FORMER Yugoslavians, Slavians accept with proud your "from where you come", don't insult your nations of Slavians an Illirians you are. Your tribes, slavians and illirians have their own history! Cyrin and Methodios where our prists that managed to code it by giving you YOUR alphabet! It's a petty that you want OUR by throwing yours in the gurbage!

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