By ChicagoGeorge

Articles from contemporary newspapers breaking into pieces the claims of FYROM’s propaganda. Sunday Aug 30 1908 – TheWashington Post   Waterloo Reporter – September 12 1909 Davenport Daily Republic October 27 1901 Galveston Daily News 1909 Middle Town Daily – 1909 The New York Times april 22 1902 Sandanski Galveston News 1909

The Yugoslav Communists implemented many measures to foster a “Macedonian” consciousness amongst the local populace in a historical context and in a region where such an ethno/national identity hardly existed. The Communists manufactured a version of history that lent a historical legitimacy to the new “Macedonian” nation. One measure that they implemented in order to sanitize and reconstruct history for […]