Sorry I didn’t get your answer Mr. Principles… what did what did the US government mean by these 1944 words?
“This Government considers talk of Macedonian “nation”, Macedonian “Fatherland”, or Macedonia “national consciousness” to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic nor political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece.”
– US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, U.S State Department Foreign Relations Vol. VIII Washington D.C. Circular Airgram – 868.014/26 Dec. 1944)
history.state (DOT) gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v08/d25
And what did the first President of the former Yugoslavians mean by these words?
“We are Slavs. There’s no connection between us and Alexander the Great. ” – Kiro Gligorov
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And what did their former Prime Minister mean by these words?
“The whole story about Ancient Macedonia sounds undoubtedly very nice. However, there is a great problem, a huge hole of about 2,000 years during which we have neither oral nor written tradition, nor a single scientific argument” – Ljubco Georgievski, Focus News, 31 March 2008
And what did their former Minister of foreign affairs mean by these words?
“The creation of the Macedonian nation, for almost half of a century, was done in a condition of single-party dictatorship. In those times, there was no difference between science and ideology, so the “Macedonian” historiography, unopposed by anybody, comfortably performed a selection of the historic material from which the “Macedonian” identity was created. There is nothing atypical here for the process of the creation of any modern nation, except when falsification from the type of substitution of the word “Bulgarian” with the word “Macedonian” were made.”
– Denko Maleski,
And what do accredited historians mean when they say…
“in the 1990s,Macedonians speak a language codified in 1946,spoken by less than two million people, and with a very slender literature. They are members of an Orthodox Church whose authority was established by a socialist political regime in 1968.They are heirs to a 1903 revolution that until the 1940s was described by almost all sources as being Bulgarian.”
– “The history of the Balkan Peninsula” Ferdinand Schevill page 432