Source: Greek - American Weekly Newspaper
14/04/08
SHAME on YOU, New York Times!!!! Since you condemn Greece and praise “Macedonia” in this dispute, I assume that based on the same principal and the same way of thinking, you would totally accept and praise the following ad showing Mexico reclaiming some of our southwestern states. At least this is done by a private company while the maps claiming part of Greece by “Macedonia” is done by their government.
Also, FYROM’s (”Macedonia’s”) schools teach their children that their country’s borders in the south are in the…middle part of Greece!
At the tomb of Goche Delchef (a Bulgarian hero)
Here are some facts about the geographical region, independent since 1991, referred to as “Macedonia”:
a. the official name of the country is FYROM.
b. Alexander the Great was Greek as were the Ionians, the Dorians, the Achaeans, the Aeolians and the Macedonians.
c. All the findings of the ancient Macedonians have scriptures in Greek.
d. Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, located in the Greek part of the ancient Macedonia was named after Alexander the Great’s sister.
e. The inhabitants of FYROM are Slavs who came to the region during the 6th and 7th centuries AD and have nothing in common with the ancient Macedonians.
f. 52.4% of the ancient Macedonia belongs to Greece, 38% of the ancient Macedonia is part of FYROM, and 9.6% is part of Bulgaria.
g. The name of the region known today as FYROM, was Vardarska Banovina after the Vardar River.
h. The name Macedonia was given to that part of Yugoslavia by its Dictator Josip Broz Tito after World War II.
It is a well-known Communist propaganda, initiated by Stalin before World War II. A resolution was passed by the Communist International (Comintern) in 1934 that for the first time it proclaimed the existence of a ….”Macedonian nation”. Stalin’s Macedonian nation consisted of the territory of FYROM, classical Macedonia which is the northern part of Greece, and the Pirin Macedonia of Bulgaria. That same area is shown even today on FYROM’s maps as “Greater Macedonia”.
Ten years later, in 1944, Tito established the Peoples Republic of Macedonia (a part of Yugoslavia), thus pursuing that communist dream. The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in today’s FYROM has been pursuing the same dream with its expansionary policies. The map above speaks for itself.
Despina Fourniades
Bethesda, MD
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