Amazing how the memory of apologists for the former self-identifying ethnic Bulgarians of the former Yugoslavia works. Real credible bigot.
“We are Slavs. There’s no connection between us and Alexander the Great. “
– Kiro Gligorov, first President
‘We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian
– Gyordan Veselinov, former Ambassador to Canada
We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great.”
– former Ambassador to US Ljubica Acevshka
“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”
– former Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski
“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”
– Denko Maleski, former Minister of foreign affairs from 1991 to 1993
etc. etc.