From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: Macedonia: History and Reality
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:17:00 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <9224423.7722@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (SAS) writes:

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>   Unfortunately, this is not the only cause of the loss of some
>Ancient Macedonian letters. Pro-serbian scholars Mihajlo
>(Mitich) Apostolski, Strahil Gigov, Lazar (Kolishevich)
>Kolishevski, and Belgrade academic Blazhe Koneski have beenfound
>by the Macquarie University Macedonian Society (M.U.M.S) guilty
>of sabotaging the Macedonian alphabet and language. In 1946-47,
>they irresponsibly modified the Macedonian alphabet by omitting
>letters such as: "ja", "ju", "shch", etc. to make it look more
>like the Serbian alphabet.

Very much true apart from the fact that they did it "resposibly".

>                                 With this crime, they made our
>language look like "South Serbian"

Also true. And it definitely looks like that.

>                                             and handed over the true
>Macedonian alphabet to the Russian colony, Bulgaria.

So - the readers learn that Bulgarian alphabet was handed to them in 1944
by the Macedonians...

>   If the Macedonians share a similar language with the
>Bulgarians, then why don't they both live in one state? Answer -
>how do you justify the existence of all those Latin-American
>countries (Brazil, Argentina, Peru, etc.) when they only speak
>Portugese and Spanish? Whatever argument these countries use is
>applicable to Macedonia as well.

That one is 100% true. Many other examples can be provided in a similar spirit.

[many jokes deleted]

>                     In 1956, there were registered no more than
>400,000 true-blue Bulgars (Tartars).

Wrong. The Opposition (i.e. "blue") Bulgarians emerged at the end of 1989.
During the 45 years before that, there one only "true-red" Bulgarians. And
not only the Tartars were their "brothers" - any developing state and
nationality in the world, facing with the fight towards the capitalism was
in brotherhood with the Bulgarians. There was a time when Bulgarians used
to feel brotherhood-like ties all over the world ...

>                                                  The rest of the population
>were Thracians (2,050,000) and Macedonians (3,200,000).

Psst, you forgot (at least) the Shopi (? 1 - 2 millions), and the
Dobrudjantzi (???).

> The
>former Bulgarian President Todor Zivkov panicked in the eyes of
>this startling reality. 

I think he paniced recently only, faced with the prospect of spending the
next 10 years in jail. Otherwise he used to face the "startling reality" with
his famous "Pravetz"-style sense of humor and on it's turn, the Bulgarians
used to face the same "startling reality" with many jokes about "Bai-Tosho".

>                                                 What should be
>remembered is that Basil the 2nd (the Bulgar Killer) and his
>Macedonian Army were te ones who blinded the 150,000 BUlgars on
>Mt Belasica! Even the Macedonians have committed atrocities. So
>whos perfect?

This is also very much true. Who is perfect, indeed. BTW, let us remember
that after Basil, the Bulgar Killer blinded the 15,000 Bulgarian soldiers,
their King - the Bulgarian Tzar Samuil (in his Bulgarian capital - Ohrid)
died from a stroke when he saw his soldiers. 

>     NO MACEDONIA FOR SLAVS AND GREEKS
>     MACEDONIA FOR THE MACEDONIANS!!
>
>Published in Australian Macedonian Herald, 19th August 1992.

A piece of masterpiece :-). However, a little confusion - if we exclude the
Slavs from Macedonia - the majority there will remain the Albanians.

>   If any one has a question regarding Macedonian history
>(ancient and modern) or cultural, please forward your letters to:

I bet there will be tremendous response.

>   Written on the 17th Zhetvar, 7500 - by the Macedonian Calendar.

As far as I remember, the ancient Greek had no Calendar, but I wonder why
they didn't borrow the Macedonian one.

>Gligor Apoleski (fwd)

Regards

Luben


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