Macedonia, a Country That Isn’t!

[poiuytrewq0987]

In the twilight of the tragedy that befell Macedonia last month, and the brutal murder of five Macedonians committed by the Muslim Albanian nationalists, it is clear that Macedonia will become a possible powder keg, and the needed trigger for another bloody war in the Balkans. If not earlier, than at least in the last few weeks it became crystal clear to everyone, who claims the territory of Macedonia, and why. Greece has long challenged Macedonian nationhood, but there is a greater and more dangerous predator lurking, also the undoubted threat to Greece itself.

After the tragic murders some Bulgarian officials were very quick to place bets and evaluate the stability of the Balkans, which according to them comes only after the division of Macedonia. Such views certainly represent the Albanian separatists, because of their well-known aspirations towards „Natural Albania“. Given the consistent and a very strong presence of Turkey in the region, and their support for the Greater Albania, which due to the false political correctness appears as a „Natural Albania“, the obvious outcome of fragmentation offers the possibility of a neo-Ottoman Empire, reaching the centuries old goals and campaigns in Europe, by the means of the Green Corridor.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said that Turkey was ready to give military and any other assistance to the Albanian brothers, especially in Macedonia, with the aim of creating a large Albanian state that would encompass all the regions inhabited by the Albanians, including Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbian Kosovo and Metohija, parts of both Greece and Italy.

Macedonian people on the other hand, like everyone else in the region, have no say in the matter, and are slowly sinking into apathy and stagnation, as they are offered nothing but despair. It would be highly insensitive to say that the Macedonian people deserve what is coming to them, but at the same time we must be honest and wonder why the Macedonian politicians, at least at first glance, nurture the pleasant cooperation with the Albanians and Bulgarians, but not with Serbia? Why, according to some estimates, more than 100,000 Macedonians have Bulgarian citizenship? And why were they among the first to recognize Kosovo’s independence?

Macedonian youth are increasingly educated in Bulgaria, offered Bulgarian citizenship, and re-educated, learning a new history, which indirectly and slyly penetrates into the essence of their existence, tradition and cultural heritage. Macedonian youth indoctrination, through education in Bulgaria, is carried out through a systematically refined and precise manner.

Many Macedonians promote Bulgarian citizenship among their fellow citizens, helping them through the process, which in turn brings some financial benefits. Who are the Macedonians loyal to, one must wonder? Certainly not to themselves as they are aware of the perfidious policy that leads to the inevitable division of Macedonia between Bulgaria and Albania. It seems easy to conclude that the Macedonians would rather suffer abuse and cruelty by the Albanians, perfidious political game of the Bulgarians dividing their land, but a true alliance and friendship offered by Serbia and the Serbian people.

Certain fractions of the Macedonian political scene have for long now propagated the hypothesis that Serbia is the insidious enemy of Macedonia, which claims the Macedonian territory as part of a Greater Serbia, bringing into question the Macedonian nation, classifying them into Southern Slavs, more correctly South Serbs. Historical facts quite factually support this hypothesis. However, Serbia has recognized the claims as pure propaganda, while completely aware of the true plot of much darker and more perfidious nature, which places Macedonia into the arms of Bulgaria and Albania.

Most politicians and policy makers in the region are mere servants of the global imperialistic cabal, and lack diplomatic, political and strategic sobriety. They would much rather serve foreign interests, than unite Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro into the Christian Orthodox powerhouse of the region, placing them in a position to defend their country, nation, and integrity. Fragmented and weak they are left at the mercy of the secessionist fractions that are supported in the Western politics, heavily influenced by the Islamist lobbies. This policy only offers bloodshed and war, and treacherous theft of land, culture, history and tradition. It is a contemporary form of colonization, all under the auspices of the artificially created and illegal right to self-determination, which disregards all international laws which guarantee the sovereignty of nations. The world is being set ablaze for the implementation of the holy ideology of democracy.

http://www.vaseljenska.com/misljenja/macedonia-a-country-that-isn-t/

[Onur]

A propaganda piece from Serbia based on false rumors like "Erdogan`s support to greater-Albania". This was a fake news from two month ago but Serbians still writing articles about that in 15.06.2012????

They are doing this purposely for propaganda purposes and praying for the demise of Macedonia yet you Macedonians love these people, right? I mean your Serbophils or Yugo-nostalgics?

They ripped you apart and stole everything you have when their army was retreating from Macedonia in 1991 and after 21 years, they pray for the demise of your country but you still dreaming about the old days of Serbian regime !!! Yours is like the syndrome of a female rape victim falls in love with her rapist attacker.

[Gordost]

Brother Macedonians, Unite with Mother Bulgaria and you will be safe.

[Midori]

Brother Macedonians, Unite with Mother Bulgaria and you will be safe.

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[iNird]

Brother Macedonians, Unite with Mother Bulgaria and you will be safe.

Brother and mother unite? Sounds like incest..... I'm all for it.

[morski]

Brother and mother unite? Sounds like incest..... I'm all for it.

Sounds a bit different in Bulgarian.:D

[morski]

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Serb, please...

[morski]

I see the Serb author of this smelly crap is extremely proud of the big word perfidious they learnt not too long ago.:D

[Midori]

Serb, please...

You have something against us Serbs, boy? :cool:

[morski]

Not really. Just want you to stop living on planet Serbia and get back to planet Earth.:wink

[Midori]

^Dude, I don't even like Serbia that much. Dunno what makes you think that.

[morski]

It's almost 3 pm here, I'm barely even thinking... :D

[Midori]

It's almost 3 AM here, I'm barely even thinking... :D

Fixed

[morski]

Exactly.:D

[poiuytrewq0987]

^Dude, I don't even like Serbia that much. Dunno what makes you think that.

Your persistent claims that most of Kumanovo area Macedonians have mainly Serbian ancestry, that we're all mixed like you, that Serbia is a brother country when they constantly try to annex us as South Serbs.

Milosevic and Antonis Samaras actually collaborated to see Macedonia broken up so the two countries can annex it and have a common border. Tito is gone, Yugoslavia is gone, it's not coming back, and if it does come back in some Frankenstein fashion, it's not going to be even beneficial to us.

I have zero Serbian ancestors, and not that many Macedonians have Serbian ancestry too but you keep parroting that we have lots and lots of Serbian ancestry... that is just ridiculous. All reasons why we believe you currently have a love affair with Serbia and are a Srboman. Sorry. :shrug:

[The Journeyman]

Greece je Macedonia.

http://greeceholidays.biz/travelguide/images/stories/alexander-the-great-greece.jpg

[Lena]

All reasons why we believe you currently have a love affair with Serbia and are a Srboman.

What is 'Srboman'? Is that some kind of insult?

[poiuytrewq0987]

What is 'Srboman'? Is that some kind of insult?

http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD

[Midori]

Your persistent claims that most of Kumanovo area Macedonians have mainly Serbian ancestry, that we're all mixed like you, that Serbia is a brother country when they constantly try to annex us as South Serbs.

Where are the 30.000 Serbs that settled in Northern Macedonia back when Vardarska was part of Serbia? Obviously, they assimilated and intermarried with the Macedonians. You have no Bulgarian ancestry too, so why do you say that you're Bulgarian? Bulgarophiles aren't liked here at all to tell you the truth :coffee:


Milosevic and Antonis Samaras actually collaborated to see Macedonia broken up so the two countries can annex it and have a common border. Tito is gone, Yugoslavia is gone, it's not coming back, and if it does come back in some Frankenstein fashion, it's not going to be even beneficial to us.


Hey, a man can dream, can't he? :icon_cool: And I like Croatia and especially Slovenia more than I like Serbia, and yet you constantly call me a Serbophile for some reason. I'm a Yugonostalgic, not a Serbophile.

[morski]

Where are the 30.000 Serbs that settled in Northern Macedonia back when Vardarska was part of Serbia? Obviously, they assimilated and intermarried with the Macedonians. You have no Bulgarian ancestry too, so why do you say that you're Bulgarian? Bulgarophiles aren't liked here at all to tell you the truth :coffee:



Hey, a man can dream, can't he? :icon_cool: And I like Croatia and especially Slovenia more than I like Serbia, and yet you constantly call me a Serbophile for some reason. I'm a Yugonostalgic, not a Serbophile.

An ethnic Macedonian(Not a Vlach, not a Serb, not a Yugoslav, etc.) has Bulgarian ancestry apriori. A fact of history, well documented one, moreover.

[Linet]

Since they claim the heroes of Bulgaria as their national heroes and the Bulgarian coat of arms as theirs :coffee:...that alone shows everything one need to know :icon_wink:

[Midori]

An ethnic Macedonian(Not a Vlach, not a Serb, not a Yugoslav, etc.) has Bulgarian ancestry apriori. A fact of history, well documented one, moreover.

Try and tell that to the Macedonians. :wink

[Drawing-slim]

Who reads this crap?? I did so kill me now.
What a depressing serb cocksuscker this author...

[Midori]

Who reads this crap?? I did so kill me now.
What a depressing serb cocksuscker this author...

:lol:

[morski]

Try and tell that to the Macedonians. :wink

I do from day one here.:wink I do the same with Macedonian students in Bulgaria. The Serboslavs may go to hell in their effort to keep the bulgarophobia in Macedonia alive, but they will fail.

Където е текло, пак ще тече.

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[Lithium]

Try and tell that to the Macedonians. :wink

The fact that they don't recognise that as true due to some reasons doesn't mean it's not right.

[Midori]

I do from day one here.:wink I do the same with Macedonian students in Bulgaria. The Serboslavs may go to hell in their effort to keep the bulgarophobia in Macedonia alive, but they will fail.

Където е текло, пак ще тече.

R4MYNvfof2s

Good luck with that. I will wave the Yugoslav flag untill the day I die :cool:

[poiuytrewq0987]

Good luck with that. I will wave the Yugoslav flag untill the day I die :cool:

Sounds like you have a bit of a Stockholm Syndrome thing going on...

"If the Macedonian Bulgarians cannot be Serbianized directly, then their national unity must be broken by producing within them a belief that they are neither Serbians nor Bulgarians." - Stojan Novaković

By waving the Yugoslav flag, you are doing your ancestors... who suffered under Serbian rule a disservice.

After the Paris Peace Conference, the 25,713 square kilometers and 728,286 inhabitants of Vardar Macedonia were incorporated within the borders of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. For seven years from 1912 to 1918, Macedonia had been a battle ground for invasion and counter-invasion, raid and defense. The countryside was devastated, and the death toll from direct action or hunger and malnourishment high.

Immediately after war's end, the peacetime Yugoslav government quickly instituted a renewed authoritarian regime in Macedonia of punishments, reprisals, court sentences and torture. Yugoslav regulations provided for 20 years imprisonment at hard labor for forming "anti-government organizations", and two years imprisonment for instigating strikes. Moreover, the Macedonian people of Vardar Macedonia were official non-existent and the use of the Macedonian language and the term "Macedonian" were forbidden. Radničke novine (Workers' Newspaper) in March 1920 wrote that "the prisoners, who were in the Prilep jail for 10 to 12 months for political reasons, stirred up mutiny. They requested to be taken to court and put on trial. A fight broke out with the guards and, as a result, all of the prisoners were put in chains."

Greater Greek, Greater Bulgarian and Greater Serbian politics alike applied generally identical methods and means in their attempts to denationalize and assimilate the Macedonians. By the "Regulation for the Settlement of the 'New, Southern Regions'" dated September 24, 1920, Macedonian land was granted to colonists from other parts of Yugoslavia willing to settle in the region. This policy was aimed at breaking the cohesiveness of the Macedonian population within their own homeland. By the end of 1928, some data suggests that 6,377 families had been settled in the region on 63,939 hectares of land.

Privredni glasnik (Economic Herald) on February, 1921 wrote that "Murders and robberies are committed everywhere. One of the essential operations, agrarian reform, has begun to be carried out in a strange manner. It progressed slowly in one direction then came to a standstill, followed by a turn off the path and a retrogression. A few contradictory regulations and numerous differing interpretations and ministerial announcements caused real chaos. The selfish actions of the agrarian chiefs, the deliyas [brave men] were natural, [those] who in fact became the real masters in regulating the concrete cases. We are witnessing how the true farmers are deprived of their land, given to various speculators who have had nothing to do with agriculture in their entire life."

For that reason, it was not surprising that in the local administration elections held in the summer of 1920, a considerable segment of the population voted for leftist parties-especially for the Communists, who gained control of the local administrations in Veles, Kumanovo, Kavadarci and Skopje. In the November, 1920 elections for the Constituent Assembly, out of the total 105,000 votes 40,200 were secured by delegates from Macedonia, winning 15 mandates.

As a result of that victory, the commander of the Third Army requested district chiefs-of-staff in Vardar Macedonia to take the following steps:

to isolate certain villages
to follow the field shepherds
to determine points for crossing the Vardar River where people may be allowed to cross the river only between sunrise and sunset
to displace the population of the villages of Gradec, Konsko, Petrovo and Sermenin
to strengthen the garrisons in Kavadarci and Valandovo each with an additional infantry battalion and a machine-gun squad, two infantry battalions to be added in Strumica, etc
the clerks-communists to be removed from the district, as they had been the first to spread communist ideas not knowing whom they had been serving to
to increase rewards for information
to strengthen police stations in the former frontiers of Serbia
after garrisons are strengthened, to begin collecting taxes and giving orders to report for military service or military exercises, as communist agitation is directed against the army and taxes
not a single person may go from one commune to another without an identity.
The Obzana (edict) of December 29 and 30, 1920, outlawed the Communist Party and banned trade unions. Political life in Macedonia was impoverished, and the solid base of the national Macedonian movement was lost, as other political parties upheld Greater Serbian ideals regarding the Serbian character of Vardar Macedonia.

Following the murder of Gjorche Petrov, the dissolution of the temporary government and the passing of the December 29 Obzana, Vrhovist armed bands, small bands and individual saboteurs were dispatched from Bulgaria to Vardar Macedonia on an increasingly frequent basis. Their aim was to pave the way for the creation of an autonomist movement in Vardar Macedonia, and for that purpose slogans were used to arouse the anger of the Macedonians against the Yugoslav government. However, lurking in the shadows was still the dream of annexing Vardar Macedonia to Bulgaria.

The period from 1922 to 1930 was marked by 63 assassinations in Vardar Macedonia. To answer the Vrhovist challenge or any other resistance against them, state authorities undertook "the white terror," including mass arrests-for example, after the murder of General Kovachevich in Shtip more than 400 people were imprisoned-as well as trials, dismissals from work and torture. To revenge the killing of colonists at Kadrifakovo and of soldiers in the village of Garvan, all the adult males from the village were taken and shot, without trial. In order to maintain "law and order" in Vardar Macedonia, now renamed Vardarska Banovina (the Vardar Regional District), 35,000 soldiers, military policemen, frontier guards and paramilitary bands were deployed.

In autumn 1927, the Greater Serbian regime unleashed a new, violent offensive aimed at achieving a Serbian solution of "the Macedonian Question" in Vardarksa Banovina, heralded by the institution of the Dictatorship of January 6. In a letter sent by the zhupans (heads of administrative districts) and the military police commanders in Vardar Macedonia to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Internal Affairs dated December 1927, a dozen measures were proposed under the pretext of combating infiltrators. But the ultimate aim was the denationalization of Vardar Macedonia and the creation of a police state.

The situation in Vardar Macedonia became desperate. A report of the Ministry for Internal Affairs dated November 22, 1926 states "in the towns and, particularly in the villages, the people are underfed... in the villages food mainly consists of rye bread, onions, vinegar, salad and yogurt. Salt is very rarely used because, as the peasants say, it is very expensive. Meals are rarely cooked or fat and oil used as the people are generally fasting. I counted 260 fasting days in a year... Owing to malnutrition, [children and new-borns] are in bad condition. There are communes where the recruits look miserable and the percentage of capability is equal to zero..."

In an appeal on February 1, 1928, a group of Macedonian citizens warned of the true situation: "Macedonia is suffering. What is going on here cannot be endured any more. A time has come when we here do not know whether when night falls we will live to see the dawn, or when it dawns whether we will live to see the night. People here are in a desperate situation. On one hand, Protogerov sends his bands to commit assassinations, the result of which is always that innocent Macedonians suffer. On the other hand, every such assassination attempt, regardless of whether it is its successful or not, is taken advantage of by the present regime to apply more violent terror, which can lead only to evil. Thus, the dispute over the possession of Macedonia is conducted over our backs, and it is only the Macedonians who suffer from such settlement of accounts, although they do no take part in it and condemn both sides."

With the incorporation of Vardar Macedonia into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, teachers and clergy who had not previously worked in Serbian schools and churches were regarded as undesirable. A considerable number of formerly exarchate schools were closed, and in the school year 1922/23 alone 130 schools were closed in the Vardar region. A formula of "dosed education" was applied, which would enable denationalization and "manufacture excellent Serbs". Through the schools and other institutions and organizations, the regime endeavored to strangle all Macedonian national consciousness and tradition, to root out the use of the mother tongue, and to distort history and ethnography. In carrying out enforced denationalization and assimilation, monstrous measures, terrible persecutions and mass terror were employed against the Macedonian people and against the Albanian and Turkish nationalities. Macedonians, Albanians and Turks lost their lives defending their human and national rights. By 1926, more than 1,600 people were executed without investigation or trial, while thousands of martyrs had been imprisoned.

Parallel to the denationalization policy of the authorities, the Macedonian Question was chiefly addressed by the activities of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Ivan Katardzhiev stresses that "the policies of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in respect to the Macedonian national question, despite a certain straying during the first years of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, can not be treated separately from first, the complexity of the national question of the Yugoslav peoples within the framework of the new state; second, the relation of Macedonian representatives in the ranks of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia; and third, the viewpoint of the Vukovar Congress (1920) that 'the Communist Party of Yugoslavia will continue to uphold the idea of national unity and equality of all nations in the country'."

On July 20, 1923, the Sarajevo newspaper Vecerwa posta (Evening Post) reported that "a new youth organization, 'Macedonian Group,' was formed in Southern Serbia". According to somewhat sketchy data, a number of democratic delegates from Macedonia took part in the formation of the group, led by Gligor Anastasov from Kavadarci, Trajko Arsov from Shtip and Dimitrie Chichevich from Prilep. The idea of forming a Macedonian party was aimed at "grouping the forces of people's delegates, in order that-as unified people's delegates-they might truly contribute to improving the unenviable position of Southern Serbia." In letters to the Parliamentary Club of the Democratic Party, Gligor Atanasov explained that this initiative was also prompted by the fact that "one cannot conceive of a lower level of decline and greater chaos and injustice... Macedonia is neglected in every respect..." In an interview with the Free Tribune, Atanasov states that "Macedonia, which most regularly fulfills its duties towards the state, is neglected in every respect. The question of public security, the agrarian question, road and railway traffic, the question of economic recovery, the emigrant question and many other questions of vital importance for the new province cannot come on the agenda of serious study and solution, for the simple reason that Macedonia does not have representatives in the parliament in a position-as a united whole with greater authority and less party passion-to point out the importance of these questions to the competent authorities."

Many aspects of the formation of this party remain unclear, its political platform being one of them-particularly considering that Gligor Atanasov, after the disintegration of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, joined (if not previously a member) the Vancho Mihajlov group, which greeted the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia in 1941 as "a historic act".

The Macedonian Popular Movement (MANAPO) emerged in 1936, founded by a group of Macedonian students and communists who passed a political declaration-which, unfortunately, is now lost. But the main principles of this movement have been preserved: to fight for the "recognition of Macedonia as an individual historical unit and the Macedonians as a separate people", and for Macedonia "to be a separate unit within the framework of Yugoslavia which would be transformed into a federal state community."

In his "Letter on Serbia" dated November 2, 1936, Josip Broz Tito stressed that "... The platform [of the People's Front] must clearly and unequivocally emphasize the resoluteness that the right of all peoples to self-determination will be respected, i.e. not only the right of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but also of Macedonians and Montenegrins, as well as the right of the people in Voivodina, Bosnia and Herzegovina to decide for themselves whether they will retain their regional independence within the federal state."

The recognition of the Macedonian nation by the Comintern determined the viewpoint of the CPY in respect to the struggle of the Macedonian for recognition. Although the Communist Party of Macedonia (CPM) was not created within the framework of the CPY, in the spring of 1939 the Central Committee of the CPY issued its position on the Macedonian national question: "it is beyond any doubt that the Macedonians are a seperate nation in the Balkans (they are neither Greeks, nor Bulgarians, nor Serbs)."

In the meantime, the Macedonian language gained ground. In some newspapers with a leftist orientation, such as Zagreb's Our Newspaper and Skopje's Light, Our Reality and Our Word, literary works and articles in Macedonian were published. The Skopje theater performed a number of plays in either the literary Macedonian language or in dialects, including but not limited to productions of The Runaway and The Rich Man Theodos by Vasil Iljoski; Money is Murder, Antitsa and Millions of Martyrs by Risto Krle; and Migrant Workers by Anton Panov. The appearance of White Dawns by Kosta Solev Racin fulfilled "a historical necessity-at the time it was published, this collection of poems signified the culmination of the drive toward the definite establishment of the Macedonian language and toward gaining recognition of Macedonian national culture in general." White Dawns heralded "the awakening of a people, which, in its struggle for a better life, had matured to creating its national culture."

Events in Macedonia were not completely ignored in the outside world. André Vaillant, a great French Slavicist, wrote in 1938 that "...The term 'Slavonic Macedonian' is unclear only for those who want it to be unclear. The Slavonic Macedonian represents reality to such an extent that in the 19th century there existed a Macedonian literary language, the language of a very small among of learned literature but of a rather abundant folk literature. It is not a question of documents and folklore as can be collected anywhere: the lyric Macedonian poem, highly esteemed in Serbia and Bulgaria, represents an authentic literary genre of real value. This literary language, based on dialects which naturally differ somewhat from each other, did not have sufficient time unify. But its centers were Skopje, Tetovo, Ohrid, Bitola (Manastir), Voden (Edessa), etc."

In that same year the Polish Slavicist Mieczyslaw Malecki concurred with Vaillant, "...However, it should be added that, beside the Macedonian characteristics which mirror the developments of either the Bulgarian or Serbo-Croat languages, there are also entirely individual features which, in such form, do not appear in either of those languages [Bulgarian and Serbo-Croat]. For that reason, my reply to the question whether the Macedonian dialects are Serbian or Bulgarian would be that they are neither Serbian nor Bulgarian, but the majority of them represent an individual dialectal type (which could also be named a Macedonian language), tied by strong knots of kinship to the two languages. Macedonian is a transition between the Serbian and Bulgarian, and its attachment to only one of those languages is baseless from a linguistic point of view."

Irrespective of the issue of recognition, the national consciousness of the Macedonian people was already strongly developed. The violent dialogue between a group of young intellectuals and the Serbian professor Nikola Vulich in 1940 when the latter publicly denied the existence of either Macedonia, a Macedonian people or a Macedonian language (as well as the reaction his denial caused) was clear evidence that it was political and international conditions which prevented the Macedonian people from obtaining recognition. The numerous leaflets, appeals and proclamations passed by the Regional Committee of the CPM and other left-orientated organizations and movements are an indication that there was no question-at least for the Macedonians-whether they felt themselves to be Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks-or Macedonians.

The Resolution of the Regional Committee of the CPY for Macedonia stresses: "only a free and independent Macedonia can guarantee the freedom of all suppressed and enslaved people in Macedonia." The Resolution of the Fifth Countrywide Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, held from October 19 to 23, 1940, calls the Macedonian struggle "...A struggle for equality and self-determination of the Macedonian people against the oppression of the Serbian bourgeoisie, at the same time revealing the true face of the Italian and Bulgarian imperialists and their agents, who, by way of demagogic promises, also wish to suppress the Macedonian people."

At the beginning of October 1940, in his article "Balkan War Provocateurs", Tito wrote: "And today, while the destruction of the entire Versailles system is underway and the Bulgarian and Serbian reactionaries compete in a belligerent and pugnacious way whether Macedonia should be an ornament of the Bulgarian or the Yugoslav royal crowns, we must shout louder than ever to those instigators of war that Macedonia is neither Serbian nor Bulgarian. Macedonia, that suppressed country where the freedom-loving Macedonian people are exposed to the most cruel terrors, hungers, denationalizations and exploitations; have suffered under Serbian national hegemony for many years. That blood-soaked country is not here to serve as a decoration for someone's crown, nor to be a dowry of the Serbian or Bulgarian bourgeoisie, but to be free from national suppression. The Macedonian people are fighting for their national liberation and in that struggle they have made great human and material sacrifices so far. To this, as well as to any other suppressed people, no action whatsoever can crush their will for freedom, nor could it destroy their right to self-determination, the right to govern their fates by themselves. Neither the Bulgarian nor the Serbian bourgeoisie have any right to Macedonia."

The Macedonian people already possessed a highly-developed sense of their individuality and right to independence and freedom when the fires of war flamed across the border, urged on by the attacks on Greece by Italy and on Yugoslavia by Nazi Germany.