From: sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (SAS)
Subject: Macedonia: History and Reality
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.greek
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:50:39 GMT


On the Macedonian Matter:

          This letter is dedicated to the Freedom Fighters
                of Macedonia E V E R Y W H E R E


        MACEDONIA: HISTORY AND REALITY

   The St. Peter's Day worldwide Macedonian rally demonstrated
to the world that the Macedonians are still alive and want
TO BE... "Alexander the Great is a Macedonian" was the cry of
one Sydney Macedonian demonstrater: for Alexander lives not only
as a symbol of Ancient Macedonia and her glorious campaigns but
also of the trememdous ideas that are nowadays of the upmost
importance. In this sence, Alexander will live on as the main
spiritual force of every Macedonian. But there was more than
that in the demonstrator's mind. He strived to assert that
todays Republic of Macedonia is not merely a Titoist forgery
of the 1940's but was and is the home of the great Alexander.
Tragically, some demonstrators in Melbourne uttered a somewhat
different cry. They claimed that the Macedonians are a leftover
Slavic tribe from the carpathian Alps, which settled on the
Balkans in the 6th Century A.D., although in not many words.
The implication of this would be the forfeiture of the true
Macedonian identity even with the name. In such a case, the
name "Macedonia" would have been borrowed (stolen) from its
rightful owner. In Edition no. 400 of "Macedonia Herald
Weekly", Laure Akai, a visitor from the U.S.A asked me some
questions regarding the article "Macedonia: Land of Legends,
Land of Glory, But Never Greek". I felt the answers would be
too ignorant to every Macedonian just proved how wrong I was!
A lot of Macedonians still suffer from the "Slavic Syndrome!".

   SLAVICISM IS ONE OF THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF ALL THE
MISFORTUNES AND CATASTROPHIES OF THE MACEDONIAN NATION, WITHOUT
THE MERCILESS EXTIPATION OF SLAVICISM, HELLENISM AND COMMUNISM -
THESE VIRUSES ON THE BODY OF OUR NATION - THERE IS NO CHANGE OF
BUILDING A NEW-BORN MACEDIONA!!!

   Controversy about Macedonia is definately not new. The
identity of the Ancient Macedonians was viewed differently by
Thucydides and Demosthenes on one hand, and Andronikus and
Mitsotakis on the other. In is the path carved by the former
that we should all pursue.


        WHO WERE THE ANCIENT MACEDONIANS?

   The Macedonians originally came from India. Their language
derived from Sanscrit. They were called Macedonians under
Alexander the Great. Before this period, the Macedonians were
cally Myceneans, and before that - Trojans (of whom spoke the
Trojan ie. Macedonian poet Homer in his "Iliad", and before
that - Titans. The land they lived in was called "Ludia". They
were of an Aryan stock as the remains of the language proved
(eg. voda-water, bebe-baby, tri-three, sestra-sister, nos-nose,
etc.) They were related to and spoke a dialect of the language
of the Thracians and the Phrygians. This language is today
classified as a "Slavic" language, and is similar to the language
of the moderm-day Macedonians. Their religion was polytheistic,
and is known today as "Greek mythology". Yes, the "Greek" gods
were in actuality Macedonian! Each God was a member of the
Macedonian Royal Dynasty, and was worshipped as a God-myth once
he/she died. In a similar way, Tito became a modern day god.
All the gods including Zeus, Hercules, Apollo, Macedon eetc,
were Macedonians. The city of Athens was names after Princess
Athena, daughter of Zeus. This princess became a god after her
death. As subjects of Macedon the Great, son of Zeus, we became
known as Macedonians. Macedon's mother name was Europe, after
whom the same continent was named. Macedon united the Macedonian
tribes (Pelagonia, Paeonia, Pieria, Latinnia, etc.) into a
uniform, homogeneous rave. They gave the world the Olympics,
which is also today credited to the Greeks! The first gold medal
winner of the Olympics was Millan Krotonski, who lifted a four
year-old calf. For this reason, the Olympics were to be held
every four years. The morals and values of the Macedonians were
sunnarized in Aristotle's "Nichomechean Ethics", where all were
bound by the willing consent of all humans - by love. These
Macedonian morals were imposed on other nations during the
campaigns of Alexander, and later by St. Paul, a Macedonian on
his mother's side, was responsible for spreading the
Christianity throughout the world.

   The Ancient Greeks were numerous semitic peoples,
predominantly dark-skinned Phoenicians and Egyptians. They
came as regufees from Persia around the 5th Century B.C..
Alexander the First, the "Philhellene", felling sorry for these
"people", allowed them to settle in Philantria and occupy what
is now Pirea and Attica. The Acropolis, a masterpiece of
Armenian genius was to become the property of the Greek. Not
surprisingly, Alexander the First was the only philhellene
(friend of the Greeks). Ever since the Greeks arrived on the
Balkans, they have been nothing but trouble. In contrast to
Macedonian culture and morality (Christianity), the Greeks have
brought to mankind everything that is considered to be evil:

1. Slavery, which modern Greek scholars call a "democracy".
2. Homosexuality, of which Plato is a fine example.
3. Lesbianism, which is named after the Island of Lesbos.
4. Prostitution.
5. Human Sacrafices to the gods. The Greeks worshipped stone
  gods irrespective of the mythological Macedonian gods.
6. Pedigrees. Only Greek-speakers were regarded as civilized.
  All those that did not speak Greek, including the Macedonians,
  were regarded as barbarians. As a Macedonian, Aristotle was
  denied citizenship to the Greek city-states, although he was
  Plato's best student.
7. Futile wars and fueds, such as the Peloponnesian Wars.
8. Education exclusivly for the rich. The Macedonian philosopher
  Aristotle advocated an "education for all".
9. And much, much more!...

   It is by no coincidence that "Grk" in Ancient Macedonian
means "one who suck blood of another". In Latin, "Graeciano"
means "thief!". In the wars against the Romans, the Greeks
treacherously sided with the enemy, only to find that life under
the Romans was a thousand hells. After waking up to reality, the
Greeks (whose culture is really Athenian) began to pray to their
stone gods (not Macedonian) for the return of the human
Macedonian Empire. The Greek treachery against the Macedonians
was to be repeated in the war against the Ottoman Emrpire (15th
Century) when they were awarded an aristocratic status within
the Empire. Other examples are the Ilinden Uprising, balkan
wars, W.E. Second, and now again when one third of our country
is pushing for its freedom. And who says history never repeats
itself?

   Today there are no more than approximately 1,200,000 pure
Greeks (if such a thing is conceivable). The rest are mostly
assimilated Macedonians and other races.


        MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE

   After the battle of Chaeronea, Achaea was regained by
Macedonia. An academy in honour of the Macedonian philosopher
Aristotle was opened, and it was called the Lyceum. Prostitution
and human sacrifices to the gods were banned. Slavery was also
prohibited, since the Macedonians had no concept of slavery.
Slaves were set free, and slave traders and the high aristocracy
were forced to till the soil. But Alexanders dream was greater...
put simply - universalism. Alexander conquered the known world,
spreading "Hellenism" wherever he set foot. Even the foremost
authorities on Alexandrian Studies and Ancient Macedonia
highlight that Hellenism is really Macedonianism. Here I would
like to take the opportunity to correct Susan Braithwaite in her
claim that the "Koine" (common language of the empire) was Greek.
If we were to assume that the Macedonian Empire was a
Greek-speaking empire, then why doesn't the "known world" today
speak Greek? Why do these "Hellenized" countries speak Russian,
Polish, Cheho, Slovakian, Slovenian, Croatian, etc.? BECAUSE
LANGUAGES ARE DIALECTS OF THE ANCIENT MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE!
THROUGH THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, THE MACEDONIAN
LANGUAGE BECAME THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF ALL NATIONS WITHIN THE
MACEDONIAN EMPIRE! IT WAS NOT CYRIL AND METHODIUS THAT
LINGUISTICALLY MACEDONIZED THESE NATIONS, BUT ALEXANDER THE
GREAT! The Macedonian rulers of Egypt (Ptolomy 1st - 15th) could
not even speak Egyptian, let alone Greek. Even Cleopatra, a
Macedonian, could not speak Greek.

   But why do the tombstones of Philip and the rest have Greek
inscriptions? They are not written in Greek, but in Macedonian!
The Greek alphabet was derived from the Macedonian alphabet
(over 50 lettters). In turn, the Phoenician alphabet was derived
from the Greek alphabet, only without the vowels. Arhaeology
(Egyptian-Phoenician-Greek-Macedonian) would be ridiculous.
After all, how do you derive "alpha-beta-gamma" from
heiroglyphics? Even the Latin alphabet comes from the dialect of
the Ancient Macedonian tribe of Latinnia.

   So what happened to a lot of the "Greek" (Ancient Macedonian)
letters from our alphabet? A lot of the complex letters over the
century have changed into simple letters. For instance, the
Ancient Macedonian "ol" was used in words or names like "Volsi"
(Or "Wallachians" in English). Over the centuries, in Macedonia,
the complex letter "ol" changed to the simple letters "la". So,
from 'Volsi" we have "Vlasi". However, in Poland, "ol" changes
to "lo", and so we have "Vlosi". In Russia, "ol" changed to
"olo", and so we have "Volosi". The examples are countless, and
are studied in the field of linguistics.

   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. With this crime, they made our
language look like "South Serbian" and handed over the true
Macedonian alphabet to the Russian colony, Bulgaria.

   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.

   So why did the Ancient Macedonians have Greek names? To state
with, these names are not Greek but Macedonian! The Greeks have
simply added suffixes like "os" and "is" to these Macedonian
names to make them sound Greek. Hence, from Alexander we have
Alexandros, from Amynta - Amyntos, from Socrat - Socrates (a
Macedonian from Thessaly), etc. Modern day Macedonians do not
use these pagan names anymore because today they are christians,
Moslems, jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.


        WHO WERE THE SLAVS?

   This is a crucial point in anti-Macedonian propaganda. Most
of the historical falsifications and fabrications emenate from
the "arrival of the slavs". Etymologically, the word "Slav"
originates from the Ancient Greek word "sclavin", which means
"SLAVE". So, when the Byzantine emperors and writers speak of
Macedonian slavs, they are referring to Macedonian SLAVES,
not a particular ethnic community or race! The word "sloven"
also has no ethnic basis. In Ancient Macedonian, "slovo" means
"the written word", or "the known word". The person that knew
many written words - a learned or educated person - was called
"sloven". In English "Sloven" means a dirty, untidy person.
In Italian, it means someone hopeless without any orientation.

   The slavs (slaves) were harvesters that were brought to
Macedonia every year. They were intermarried with the existing
Macedonian population, but left Macedonian once their job was
finished. Annually, around 30,000 such slavs (slaves) were
borroed to harvest the Macedonian wheat with their sickles (rpi-
Srbi, or Serbs). As far as the barbarians (avars, Antes, Huns,
Goths, etc.) are concerned ... they came, and the macedonians
repelled them ... they never settled! The case of St. Dimitrius
(Dimitri) Solunski is illustrative, as is written in "The
Miracles of St. Dimitruis" ("Chudesata na Sveti Dimitrija").
The only barbarians that did settle were the Bulgars. They
settled in northern BUlgaria, and even today they are still
there with their relatively conspicuous Mongol features. The
BUlgars are Tartars who never intermarried with the existing
population (Thracian and Macedonian). They came from the River
Volga in 674 A.D. and were known as "Volgari" (Vulgar). Later
they were called "Bolgari", which in Hungarian and Ancient Greek
means "homosexual". In 1956, there were registered no more than
400,000 true-blue Bulgars (Tartars). The rest of the population
were Thracians (2,050,000) and Macedonians (3,200,000). The
former Bulgarian President Todor Zivkov panicked in the eyes of
this startling reality. The Bulrian approach to the Macedonian
Question was reviewed, and in 1958 recognition made way for
repudiation.

   The Wallachains (Vlachs) are Macedonians who were
denationalized during the Roman Empire.

   Even if we reasoned "in the old ways" (propagandistic) and
assumed for a minute that the Macedonians were Greek, then why
is it only the Macedonian Greek became "Slavicized" while the
Greek Greeks remained Greeks? After all, didn't the Slavs
penetrate as far as the Peloponnese? Were the Greek Greeks any
different from the Macedonian Greeks? If so, doesn't that mean
that the Greeks were a different breed from the Macedonians
altogether? Apparently even if the old argument where
"slavicizing" is the key to understanding the Balkan nations
did have a basis in fact, it manifestly defeats itself.


        WHO WERE CYRIL AND METHODIUS (KIRIL AND METODI)

   While Cyril was a philosopher, Methodius was the general of
the Kumanovo region. And they were definately not saints!

   The Macedonian (Cyrillic) alphabet was in use since ancient
times long, long before these Salonical brothers. The Armenian
(Glagolitic) alphabet relaced the Macedonian alphabet by the
directive of Emperor Michael since his Queen was Armenian. Cyril
and Methodius was chosen to perform the task.

   This is also why they were pesecuted later on. After their
deaths, St. Clement revived the Macedonian alphabet and called
it the Cyrillic Alphabet! I would also like to correct Blagoja
Stojanovski in his claim that the Byzantine Empire was Greek,
and that Samuils Empire was Macedonian.

   So where did the Macedonians celebrate their freedom? In
Byzantine, ofcouse! Byzantine was not a Greek but a Macedonian
Emperor. Consider the following points:

1. Virtually none of the Byzantine Emperors were Greek.
  Justinian, the man who wrote the laws (Corpus Juris Civilius)
  which is the basic foundation of western law - is a native of
  the village Bardovic, Skopje! Constantine the great, the man
  who made the Christian Church a corporate state institution,
  was a native of Nish!!
2. The coins of the Byzantine Empire have the letter "M"
  inscribed on them, which means Macedonia.
3. The symbol of Macedonia (16 point sun) is present on the
  church feescoes.
4. Why was Constantinople chosen as a capital and not Athens.

   These examples are not exhaustive. When Constantine the Great
commenced with the Christian crusades, he tossed the symbol of
Macedon and replaced it with the cross of Jesus Christ. Ater the
schism in 395 A.D., the eastern half was called the Macedono
Thracian Empire. That was when the cross was replaced by the two
headed eagle, symbolizing two countries Macedonia and Thrace and
one empire Byzantine. The kingdom of Yugoslavia (ie. the first
one) used the two headed eagle for its engisnia on her air-force,
and today the Albanians use it on their flag. 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?


        WHO IS THE DOCTRINE OF SLAVICISM?

   Slavicism was fabricated by Czarist Russia, the goal being to
claim the Macedonian Orthodox Church (the Patriarch of
Constinople was originally Macedonian, and the Archbishopric of
Ohrid was tot ake over this responsibility if anything aws to
happen to Constantinople) and the Macedonian speaking nations on
the Balkans as her Colonies. This doctrine was later adopted by
Belgrade to promote her plans for a Greater Serbia (Yugoslavia).
Hellenism was a reaction to Slavicism, by which the Athens
(England, Grence) claimed Macedonia as an inseperable part of
Hellas Irredempta. Slavicism was eventually overshadowed, by
communism. We know that Hellenism is our enemy, and we are
ridding Macedonia of its last remnants of Communism.

   However Slavicism is still the invisible enemy to most ...
and it must be eliminated now!

     NO MACEDONIA FOR SLAVS AND GREEKS
     MACEDONIA FOR THE MACEDONIANS!!

Published in Australian Macedonian Herald, 19th August 1992.

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

Gligor Apoleski
Macquarie Uni, Macedonian Society (M.U.M.S.)
Box 76, Level 1
Student Council Union BUilding
Macquarie University 2109
Sydney N.S.W.

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

Gligor Apoleski (fwd)



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