I have heard from the propagandists of the FYROMacedonian diapora organization MHIM (Nicholov, Stefou, Uzunovski, Maurommatis e.t.c.) theirs allegations regarding the Slav Macedonian involment in the Greek Civil War and WWII. Because of its geographic and strategic significance, Greek Macedonia became the centre of important political and military events during the 1940s. Decisive fighting took place in Macedonia and Epirus during the Greek-Italian War of 1940-1941. Greek Macedonia suffered a triple occupation German, Italian, and Bulgarian, the last being the most brutal. During the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949 all of Greece suffered. But the war reached a climax in Macedonia and Epirus, the two critical frontier battlefields. In the bloody conflict between the Greek national army and the communist Democratic Army of Greece (DAG), Macedonia became the focus of interest of the Yugoslav partisans and Tito’s manipulations. The bloody struggle in Macedonia took place not only between democracy and communism, but also between communism and Hellenism, the latter endeavouring to defend Hellenic Macedonia’s territorial integrity.

In this post I will show the 4 first Slav Macedonian lies that the propagandists hidefrom theirs artificial historiography.

Slav Macedonian Lie #1, Bulgaria and FYROM relationships.

We have hear from the FYROMacedonian a lot of as about theirs history regarding Greek Macedonia in WWII but nothing as about Vardar Macedonia. Hugh Poulton (who are the Macedonians ?, pages 101-102) speak for the issue and was clear:

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Slav Macedonian propagandists dissemble theirs past historical intentions and one of them was the Bulgarian General Marinov. This officer a secret IMRO operative, was named military commander in Skopje, the capital of Vardar Macedonia, to coordinate IMRO’S activities in Bulgarizing both Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Macedonia. Marinov, working closely with the Nazis, set up an office in Monastiri, staffed with high echelon lMRO leaders to coordinate activities in western Macedonia.

The amazing for this guy is that was a faschist turned communist after Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies in 1944, served as Bulgarian ambassador in Paris after the war. Greek governemnet accused him of war crimes against the Greek people (like Kaltchev) but he was never tried because Bulgaria supported by the Soviets refused to extradite him in Greece.

But was not the first Slav Macedonian that change his political intrestings. We have many cases from Slav Macedonians that change theirs thesis, fashists to communists, ethnic Macedonians to Bulgarian Macedonian and vice verca.

Slav Macedonian Lie #2, Akronauplia Incident.

Even more ominous for the troubles to come, 27 high-ranking communistic cadres were released by the Gernlans in June 1941 from the Akronauplia prison camp, where they were under detention by the Greek authorities. They owed their release to the intervention of the Bulgarian embassy in Athens. They too declared Bulgarian nationality, although a few like Andrcas Tzimas or Samariniotis who later played a key role in political developments, were not Slav Macedonian. Most of them came from the districts of Kastoria and Florina, and included some of the protagonists in the events to be described below:

Lazaros Adamopoulos or Danios of Oinoi (Kastoria)
Lazaros Zisiadis or Trpovski of Dendrochori (Kastoria)
Zisis Kallimanis of Kalochori (Kastoria)
Theodoros Euthynuadis of Kastoria
Anastasios Karatzas of Dendrochori
Zisis Delios or Batzios of Kalochori
Kyriakos Pylnis of Xynon Neron (Florina)
Lamipros Moschos of Dendrochori
Lampros Roukas of Ieropig (Kastoria)
Diamantis Tsistinas or Dalis of Kastoria
Andreas Tsipas of Agios Panteleimon (Florina)
Lazaros Bozinis of Aposkepos (Kastoria)

According to Papakyriakopoulos (War Criminals, 35). the release was arranged by the Bulgarian embassy in Athens and the Bulgarian Club of Thessalonica. See Uranros, 103-4, for additional information about the release of the communist prisoners. A list of the released communist cadres can be found in Antonis Flountzis, 1937- 1943. Akronatiplia kai Akronaupliota (1937-1943: Akronauplia and Akronaupliotes), Athens 1989, 214, 407-8, 470, 475, 484-9, where there is more information about the released Slav Macedonians.

Some evidence on the released communists came out in the trial of the prominent Axis collaborators in 1945. A witness In the second trial of the Bulgarian war criminal Anton Kaltchev. Athanasios Prontistis, a highranking official in Chrysochoou service In Thrssaloniki and member of an anti-communist resistance orgnanization the PA0, maintained that as many as 97 communists were released from the Akronauplia prison by the Germans after declaring themselves Bulgars. According to the same source, 11 more Slav Macedonian communist cadres were kept in the Cassandra Agricultulral Prison, but they refused to register as Bulgars. (Makedonia newapaper, 11 May 1948).

According Cryshochoou in 1944 the declarations of Bulgarian nationality for the expected benefits were estimated by the Greek authorities, on the basis of monthly returns, to have reached 16,000 in the districts of German-occupied Greek Macedonia.

According to British sources, declarations of Bulgarian nationality throughout Northern Greece reached 23,000 of which however as many as 10.000 were renounced by 1044. ( F0371/58615, Thessaloniki consular report of 24 Sep. 1946).

Is clear that these Slav Macedonians before the foundation of the artificial Macedonian Communist Republic from Tito Regime in 1944, had rejected very easy theirs communist line and adopted the Bulgarian Fascist Ideology.

Slav Macedonian Lie #3, The Bulgarian Influence.

Chris Woodhouse (British Liaison Officer at the 40s) in his book (Struggle for Greece 1941-1949, page 67) mention as about the identity of the Slav Macedonians

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Is obvious what was the political ideologu of the Slavonic Macedonians before the foundation of the artificial Republic of Macedonia.

Slav Macedonian Lie #4, Aegean Macedonia……a Nationalist term.

This nationalist term is currently used by some scholars(not only FYROMacedonians), mostly contextualised, along with the sister terms Vardar Macedonia (describing the part of Macedonia in which the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia inhabits) and Pirin Macedonia (describing the part of Macedonia in which the Blagoevgrad province of Bulgaria inhabits). The term is used more frequently by Macedonian Slavs and can have irredentist connotations, in relation to the concept of United Macedonia.

According Loring Danforth (favour author of the Slavonic Macedonians) the Aegean Macedonia is a Macedonian Slav nationalist term used to refer to the region of Macedonia in Greece, in the context of a United Macedonia. The origins of the term seem to be rooted in the 1940s but its modern usage is widely considered ambiguous and irredentist. The term has occasionally appeared on maps circulated in the Republic of Macedonia, which envisioned Greek Macedonia (referred to as “Aegean Macedonia”) as part of a “Greater Macedonia”, and is regarded as a challenge of of the legitimacy of Greek sovereignty over the area.

From the above is obvious that this term is a result and political finding term of the Tito Regime (as theirs State) in order to occupy the Greek and Late the Bulgarian parts of the Macedonia in order to absorbed in the Yugoslavia Federation.

By Akritas