From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.yugoslavia,misc.headlines
Subject: Newly created ethnic groups with expansionist pretentions
Summary: Ethnic fraud on the Balkans - from M.I.L.S. - NEWS 01/11/92
Keywords: non-existing (in the past), newly emerged ethnic groups
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:11:32 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.europe
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.



In article <1992Nov4.140145.29785@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> amils@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex MILS) writes:

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>MACEDONIANS DEMANDED TO BE COUNTED IN BULGARIAN CENSUS

The communist created ethnic group called 'Macedonian' has something (but
not a lot) in common with the ethnic Bulgarian Macedonians but not what is
claimed by some propaganda machines (in fact those people are commonly known in
Bulgaria as 'Macedonians' - just like there are Bavarians in Germany, or
Lancashires in England). Those Macedonians, incl. the Slavs living in
Central and Southern Macedonia, have been always refered to as Bulgarians
and had Bulgarian nationality only for many years. Only after the
Tito-Dimitrov time (1945), a new ethnic group, called 'Macedonian' emerged
on the ethnic maps of the world (the propaganda exercises that those people
are not Bulgarians, dated from the last century, but are ridiculed by all
Western scholars - as described in [1]). 

The best proof for the lack of 'suppressed' ethnic minority (imaginative in
the minds of some expansionists politicians) in Bulgaria were the 3 free
elections held  recently rhere, when despite all attempts for boycott, etc.
by the ex-Yu communist propaganda, the Bulgarian Macedonians demonstrated
what their true nationality is. It is proved beyond any doubt that no
Macedonian nationality existed before WWII and this fact can be veryfied
from all serious sources from that time (like in [2]). It is also clear
what nationalities exist and don't exist in Bulgaria. It is also well
known, what are the human rights (in this respect) in Bulgaria for the last
couple of years. The fact that the described situation is a reality can be
noticed in all reports on Bulgaria, when one considers the status of the
Bulgarian Turks, which the Bulgarian communist regime tried to deprive from
their ethnic identity in the near past (1984-89)and doing so, became well
known all over the world. The real ethnicy of the people in Bulgaria can be
find in the non-communist and non-Balkan-propaganda ethnic maps/sources from
the past. Elsewhere, (as it is well documented), one will find that the
only existing ethnic minority with any importance (in Bulgaria) is the
Turkish one, and only before the first Balkan war - i.e. 80 years ago - there
was another monority - the Greek on (on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria). 

What happened 45 years ago (and also unique in world history), was that for
ideological reasons, Bulgarians were forcibly made 'Macedonians' (unlike
before, after 1945 the term was applied in ethnic sense - not as a regional
name of Bulgarians in the past, which as so - existed for hundreds of
years). In fact there was a similar case when a 'Moldovan' nation (also
after 1945) was 'created' - another euphemism, which had to concealing the
ethnic Romanians in Moldova. The genuine national identity of (at least) those
Macedonians - in Bulgaria - has been restored some years later during the
communist regime, but the story was palyed down in order not to upset the
memory of the Bulgarian communist leader G. Dimitrov. All this, alas, left
probably something in the minds of few people but in general, the
Macedonian Bulgarians do not express (exactly like it was 70-100 years ago
for all non-Serbian Slavs in Macedonia) any other than their only real
nationality - the Bulgarian one. Alas, not the same can be said for the
inhabitants of the ex-Yu republic of Macedonia (and some of the Slavs in
Greece), which according to all non-Balkan ethnic maps from the past
(see references) were ethnic Bulgarians. The de-Bulgarization process in
those lands (most brutal after 1914) had no parallel of ethnic cleansing
and ethnic identity change in world history. One can think, that had the
Bulgarian communists hold the power, with the same (1984-89) policy towards
the Bulgarian ethnic Turks, for more 45 years, (and if Turkey shows the
same indifference on the matter as the Bulgarian communist government did
for the last 45 years) there would be no Turks in Bulgaria.

>Skopje. Eight ethnic Macedonians organisations in Bulgaria have

Maybe these are the 8 (or more - maybe even 80) 'ethnic' Macedonians in
Bulgaria? A population, which was taught in school using forged books and
documents (in the most brutal way), and which population had never had the
chance to find the truth for it's past from independent sources, uses uses
the cultural and historic heritage of the Bulgarian nation. However, it's
time for those people to take out the head from the sand and realize
what the real past of the lands of Macedonia were. As for those few
individuals who have created separate organizaitons for themselves, one
must know that there is no support in Bulgaria for them, and the only
support and 'understanding' comes from abroad together with sums of money.

>asked that country's president, Zelu Zelev, and former Prime
>Minister, Filip Dimitrov, that Macedonians be allowed to be
>counted as Macedonians, and not as Bulgarians, in the December
>census, according to a report in the ethnic Macedonian newspaper
>"Makedonec."

There are different types of newspapers but ethnic newspapers ... What
alphabet (and when was that alphabet created - i.e. in 1945?) uses this
newspaper? Where is it published? Why such dubious information centres
don't include reports from the real Macedonian newspapers in Bulgaria,
which leave no doubt what the real nationality of those people is. Why are
many Macedonians still left out in the dark about their history why are
books and documents still forged for political purposes?

>Makedonec is run by OMO Ilinden,

The terrorist (also banned) organization "Ilinden", proved to be sponsored
by the ex-Yu government via the ex-Yu ambassador. This was well exposed in the
press 2 years ago. During a rally of that same organization (2 years ago),
the Yu journalists were more in numbers than the so-called members of
Ilinden and the entire march became a mockery of a 'protest'. Bulgarian
civil and ethnic rights situation has been under scrutiny by the world,
after the fall of the Bulgarian communist regime in 1989 and it's record
since have received universal recognition for being the best on the
Balkans. Many reports by international organization prove, that unlike in
 ex-YU, there is freedom of expression of political and ethnic rights in
post-communist Bulgaria. The best proof for this is the current status (in
fact - the status for the last 3 years) of the Bulgarian Turks (who are
ethnic indeed, or at least so - for the last hundred of years), who are
represented by the MRF political organizaiton, which is the third largest
political party in Bulgaria - proportionally with the size of the Bulgarian
Turkish population. Other smaller ethnic groups in Bulgaria - like the
Gypsies, have also their organizations and the numbers of the existing
ethnic minorities in Bulgaria is well known.

There is hardly any other state in the world like Bulgaria, which is so
liberal towards foreign sponsored terrorist organization. One can hardly
wonder how despite the total lack of support for this terrorist
organizaiton by the Bulgarian population, it has survived.



Regards


Luben



[1] "The Races of Europe, a sociological study", Ripley, W. Z., Prof from
MIT, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1899.

[2] "The races of Europe", Coon, C. S., A. Prof in Harvard University, New
York, The MacMillan Comp., 1939.
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