Yiannis says:

You must be raised in America or an other Anglosaxon country and thinks that statistics are actuall and solid facts, this is not the case, this is the Balkans and FYROM is a complex ex-communist country that are still struggle to become a nation.
They pretty much behave like George Orwell's 1984, they rewrite again and again their entire national history, identity and statistics as they like and the will act like that is the truth (untill an other party comes to power and rewrite it again, they done 3 times already!).

The procedure of assimilation and denial of self identification is known to the Balkans (and elsewere) 1.propaganda, 2.bribing and 3.violence, pretty much what the Bulgarian comitajis had in mind originally and acomplished in Eastern Rumelia, Greece followed their example in some cases.

The names and the nationalities were alterred or erased since the Serbs occupied Pellagonia and Yevgeli in 1913, the Greek language were forbidden during the Yugoslavian era originally as a language of the "gypsies" of the South and later as the "capitalist Trojan horse of American imperialism to the Balkans" and continues to be semi-illigal since Yugoslavia collapsed.
You need to have HUGE balls to state that you are Greek because the "Greek" state made that very clear to them that "there are NO Greeks in Skopja" and the consuls are ordered to sent away the "fanatics" that try to destroy our excellent! relationships? with the Maceslavians! and the fruitless negotiation with the nationalists of VMRO. See the case of Nikolas Konstantinidis a.k.a. Nikola Mihaylovski, that was thrown out of the consul and abandoned in the courts of FYROM and the mental institutions (a Stalinist method that also enjoyeded Vasko Gligorojevic, Spaska Mitrova and others) by the "Greek" governments and only few Greek patriots helped him.
"Greek" politicians know how to set an example to the poore Greeks of Monstiri……

In 1984 Yugoslavia recognized 114000 Greeks in the "Republic of Macedonia" in 2002 cencus they were 422!
They recognize 9695 Aromanians, but just in their cultural assosiations they are enlisted more than 16000 members and they estimate their numbers up to 30.000-40.000, they say they are Greeks and also have relatives that fled to Greece in the 1940's!
Their cencus recognizes 1.417 Bulgarians but over 40.000 have already taken Bulgarian passports (paying 300 or 500 euros for that so they are not "traitors").
They recognized 77.959 Turks! many of them are Christian Orthodox's and they are as Turks are the Maceslavians themselves!

You might want to take a look at the village of Pehčevo in Malesevski that is almost pure Greek from refugees of 1922 holocaust, from Kalipolis-Thrace, the census of 2002 shows "Maceslavians" 4.737, Roma 390, Turks 357 ,Other 33" AMAZING eh?
Or perhaps Grciste (the Greek's village), Gevgelija that renamed Bogdanci and have 74 "others" and 95% Maceslavians!

In other words the Skopjanic method is good old "You say what you like, I'l writte what I want".