From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Re: Skopje's Swiss Dreams (was: MACEDONIA: A SWITZERLAND...)
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:35:37 GMT
Reply-To: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <1992Aug12.233114.28008@cs.mcgill.ca> filippou@cs.mcgill.ca (Dimitrios FILIPPOU) writes:
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>Ms./Mr. Bouis, 
>
>  you'd better forget your Swiss dreams.

I think there is nothing wrong to dream or to try to find an example of
tolerance and prosperity. Is it so bad to try to pick up matters from
countries where a system works and implement them on the Balkans - are the
Balkan people more stupid (genetically) than the Swiss or what? 

> As far as I know, the
>Balkans are not yet so much *civilised* to dream of federations and 
>confederations.

So what? Do you have any idea what South Corea and Singapore were some 30 -
40 years ago? And what they are now? Do you think that the Balkans
will/must remain like this forever and the only think to talk about is who
killed whom 100 years ago or where democracy has been for a longer period
of time - something the Swiss seem not to worry too much about?

>  I also find that those excerpts you copied from Mihailoff's book 
>contain enough material to keep you engaged in dogfights with my 
>fellow Greek netters for a long-long time. Personally, I'll try 
>to resist the temptation :-) !

This depend on the netters and not on the book. I found it vastly
informative and very interesting. Shall one read things which contain
"glossy" words only? One sided facts and opinions and the "only" truth?
What is wrong in reading matters which you may not like? Or such books must
be burnt and banned? In case you reply "No" - then let us read everything.
And there were points and opinions which noone has put on the net before.

>  Finally, I don't think that cross-posting such huge articles from 
>God-knows-how-respectable-sources is very healthy neither to you 

Are you serious? The source, for your information is very interesting and
one to be heard. Ivan Michailoff was the leader of IMRO after 1925 (or later)
i.e. the military organization which fought for the independence of
Macedonia. He organized the assassin of King Alexander in Marseilles in
1934. I'll provide you with some sort of analogy - how can somebody says
that Yasser Arafat is a "God-knows-how-respectable-sources" when talking
about the movement for liberation of Palestine? Michailoff may not be right
(or may be) but he is hardly "unknown" figure for those, who know even
little for the fight of Macedonia for independence.

>(you waist your time, unless you have a scanner at your disposal), 

This is entirely his problem. I don't think he has waisted his time.

>nor to the USENET readers (most of them get immediately tired and press 
>"next article" after a couple of screens). 

Ha, are you "most" USENET readers? The article was very, very interesting
and I'd like to thank Lou for posting it.

>My friendly regards,

And mine as well

>Dimitrios Filippou

Luben

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