Serbian terror in Macedonia

[PAGANE]

Serbian colonization in Macedonia has been a purposeful policy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, since 1929. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to change the ethnic composition of the population in occupied Macedonia in 1913 by reducing the relative weight of the Bulgarian element. This settlement, Edmond Bouches-de-Bell writes in 1922, "coupled with the expulsion of irreparable Bulgarian elements, should have led to a rapid subdivision of the area." Even after the Inter-Allied War in 1913, the Serbian government was preparing a system of measures to denationalize Bulgarians and Vlachs in the newly conquered Vardar Macedonia. In order to gain the Muslim element, the Albanians and Turks, in turn, have the properties and privileges of the Hajj and the elders preserved. On February 20, 1914, the Serbian government adopted an ordinance to settle in the new areas of the kingdom. The ordinance provides for the free transportation of families, home furnishings, free provision of material for the construction of houses and exemption from all state, county, cuts and municipal taxes for the first 3 years and more. The implementation of these measures was hindered by the First World War (1914 - 1918), but after the war they were again on the agenda. The farmsteads in Vardar Macedonia have been cut four times, but the sale of the farmsteads has benefited Serbian ruling circles, city moneylenders and wealthier peasants. Prime Minister Nikola Pasic acquires properties in Kosovo and Macedonia, and Milan Stojadinovic speculates on land in Macedonia. The Agrarian Reform Preparation Act of 1920 and the Colonization Act of 1922 openly linked agrarian reform to colonization, trying to stop the land being given to the peasants and retained for colonists. On December 5, 1931, a special Law on Agrarian Relations was issued in Southern Serbia and Montenegro, amended on June 24, 1933. According to statistics, by the end of 1925, 71 045 hectares of land had been distributed, of which 11 300 to the locals and the rest (4/5) to the colonists. The land became the property of the locals only after 10 years, while for the colonists the state paid the rent to the former owners. According to statistics from 1928, a total of 225 327 hectares of land has been designated for colonization in southern Serbia (Kosovo and Macedonia), but in fact only 111 602 (including 3000 of Pasic in Murat Tulbeta) have been allocated and the rest is abused by local authorities. The land was distributed in 173 colonies and 419 smaller settlements.
By 1929, 6377 colonial families were settled in Vardar Macedonia. The geographical distribution of the colonies and settlements is aimed at forming a Serbian ethnic strip between Bulgaria and Vardar Macedonia. Thus, in Skopje, there are 10 colonies and 12 settlements, in Gevgelijski - 6 colonies and 5 settlements, in Prilepsky - 10 colonies and 5 settlements, in Ovchepolski - 4 colonies and 3 settlements, and in Kavadarski, Kochanski, Bitolski and Ohrid sections there are only one or two colonies and several settlements. The colonies were created mainly until 1925, and then the authorities focused on strengthening them. Colonization in Vardar Macedonia has had the least success compared to other areas of the country - Kosovo, Vojvodina, due to fierce resistance from the local population and the Internal Revolutionary Macedonian Organization
The decision temporarily prohibiting the return of colonists of 6 March 1945.


Map of the Serbian colonization in Macedonia

[Jackson78]

Seems like communist propaganda to me.

Not propaganda, but reality.

[Vojnik]

M Patraiev 1907:

In the Kastoria(Kostur) Kaza, delegations from the villages came to see us and declared that they wanted neither Greek nor Bulgarian teachers and priests;rather they insisted that they be Macedonians. When questioned about their nationality, they replied that they are Macedonians. These declarations, which are far from being isolated, demonstrate that the Christian population of Macedonia is fed-up with the oppression of the various propagandas, and that in them is beginning to awaken a national consciousness different from those being imposed on them from outside.

Nationality, Regional identity? Hmmmmm

[Aspar]

This dumbo is hilarious...

Calls a famous British etnographer and traveler a stupid guy but takes as a relevant what some idiot Serb troll on internet said.

Stupid idiot, the big difference is that while Pribislav's ancestors called themselves Dalmatians and at the same time consider themselves Serbs, the Macedonians don't consider themselves as Serbs or any other etnicity.

So why do you even care about?

[Vojnik]

"Are you a Serb? Are you Bulgarian? Grecian or Albanian? On this series of questions, the Macedonian people, today as yesterday, were giving the same answer - I am Macedonian ".

Emmanuel Duvillard (born 1887) est le presidente du Comite de Geneve pour la Defense des victimes de la terreur blanche dans les Balkans.

More regional identity examples.

[Vojnik]

This dumbo is hilarious...

Calls a famous British etnographer and traveler a stupid guy but takes as a relevant what some idiot Serb troll on internet said.

Stupid idiot, the big difference is that while Pribislav's ancestors called themselves Dalmatians and at the same time consider themselves Serbs, the Macedonians don't consider themselves as Serbs or any other etnicity.

So why do you even care about?

When in doubt, blame Tito, Communism and 1945. That's all they have up their sleeves. Broken record and very cringe.

[PAGANE]

Henri Pozzi is a French politician, diplomat and publicist who surveys the political situation in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between the two World Wars, and shows how the Yugoslav state was created for the simple purpose of implementing Serbian domination over the non-Serb nations within Yugoslavia . In the book, especially harsh were the methods implemented against the Bulgarian population in Vardar Banovina. Known for his 1934 book, The War is Back (published in French as La Guerre Revient and in English as Black Hand Over Europe), in which he describes Serbian bullying against the peaceful Bulgarian population in Vardar Macedonia. Also about Serbian propaganda among Croats and Bosniaks in the Royal Yugoslavia.
"And I say, I, a Frenchman who deeply loves Serbia and who has proved it enough for twenty years - I feel that my judgment expresses much less than it actually is that the people who represent today in Macedonia's current masters of Yugoslavia, who are clerks, judges, priests or police officers, are blurring their country. "
And more:
"The materially and morally enslaved are oppressed, robbed, tortured beyond any conception. No opportunity for them to seek justice, no help, no protection for anyone, whatever their social status, gender, age. In Macedonia, they are confiscated, imprisoned, tortured, killed legally, systematically, calmly, cruelly. "
The book is an ice shower for any normal person, regardless of nationality. The blood in the veins is icy and the hair tingles as one reads it. A bow to the martyrs of the Bulgarian in Macedonia.

[Vojnik]

"Makedonski Golos" proclamation of 8th June 1915:

"We Macedonians- not Serbs,not Bulgarians but simply Macedonians"

[Vojnik]

"mi Makedonci, ne Serbi i ne Bolgari, a prosto Makedonci"

[catgeorge]

You werent known as Macedonian pre 1913 you were known as Bulgarian excharsists. I have over 200 consul documents of the time from Austrian, French and English.

Russian soldiers were going from village to village saying if you want to be free from the Turk them you must join the Excharte or you wont get your freedom.

I can post ALL consul reports if you like.