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Georgi Dimitrov was a dumb greedy communist bastard and one of worst leaders of Bulgaria. Also the Bulgarian Communist Party was a puppet of the USSR and they initially wanted independent Macedonia as you saw from my quotes. They changed their mind only when Tito stopped obeying them and started doing his own thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov
"The idea eventually resulted in the 1947 Bled accord, signed by Dimitrov and Tito, which called for abandoning frontier travel barriers, arranging for a future customs union, and Yugoslavia's unilateral forgiveness of Bulgarian war reparations. The preliminary plan for the federation included the incorporation of the Blagoevgrad Region ("Pirin Macedonia") into the People's Republic of Macedonia and the return of the Western Outlands from Serbia to Bulgaria. In anticipation of this, Bulgaria accepted teachers from Yugoslavia who started to teach the newly codified Macedonian language in the schools in Pirin Macedonia and issued the order that the Bulgarians of the Blagoevgrad Region should claim а Macedonian identity.[11]
However, differences soon emerged between Tito and Dimitrov with regard to both the future joint country and the Macedonian question. Whereas Dimitrov envisaged a state where Yugoslavia and Bulgaria would be placed on an equal footing and Macedonia would be more or less attached to Bulgaria, Tito saw Bulgaria as a seventh republic in an enlarged Yugoslavia tightly ruled from Belgrade.[12] Their differences also extended to the national character of the Macedonians – whereas Dimitrov considered them to be an offshoot of the Bulgarians,[13] Tito regarded them as an independent nation which had nothing to do whatsoever with the Bulgarians.[14] Thus the initial tolerance for the Macedonization of Pirin Macedonia gradually grew into outright alarm.
By January 1948, Tito's and Dimitrov's plans had become an obstacle to Stalin's aspirations for total control over the new Eastern Bloc.[10] Stalin invited Tito and Dimitrov to Moscow regarding the recent rapprochement between the two countries. Dimitrov accepted the invitation, but Tito refused, and sent Edvard Kardelj, his close associate, instead.[10] The resulting fall-out between Stalin and Tito in 1948 gave the Bulgarian Government an eagerly-awaited opportunity of denouncing Yugoslav policy in Macedonia as expansionistic and of revising its policy on the Macedonian question.[15] The ideas of a Balkan Federation and a United Macedonia were abandoned, the Macedonian teachers were expelled and teaching of Macedonian throughout the province was discontinued. Despite the fallout, Yugoslavia did not reverse its position on renouncing Bulgarian war reparations, as defined in the 1947 Bled accord."
Bulgaria will recognize the Macedonian language and ethnicity when Macedonia recognizes the Bulgarian origin of the Macedonian language and ethnicity, coupled with Samuil, Kliment Ohridski(and the rest medieval Bulgarians who you claim as Macedonians). The early VMRO revolutionaries can still be considered Macedonians, but coupled with the Bulgarian national identity they possessed.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Int...y-Organization
"IMRO was founded in 1893 in Thessaloníki; its early leaders included Damyan Gruev, Gotsé Delchev, and Yane Sandanski, men who had a Macedonian regional identity and a Bulgarian national identity."
You say that Bulgaria is "alone in not recognizing today's reality". We see the reality very clearly. Macedonian became different enough to be considered a separate language. Propaganda went a long way and you became a separate ethnicity. When Macedonia recognizes the past, Bulgaria will recognize the present.
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