Macedonians Hi Realek sorry if I didn t awnser yesterday but you seemed a bit angry with me so I decided that letting some time pass would have helped to calm all down Now passing to your last message let me thank you for having clearly stated your objections Now I ll try to awnser your points Tito s actions had a number of important consequences for the Macedonians The most important was obviously the promotion of a distinctive Macedonian identity as a part of the multiethnic society of Yugoslavia The process of ethnogenesis gained momentum and a distinct national Macedonian identity was formed The first part was already there Tito s actions had a number of important consequences for the Macedonians The most important was obviously the promotion of a distinctive Macedonian identity as a part of the multiethnic society of Yugoslavia As for the second part The process of ethnogenesis gained momentum and a distinct national Macedonian identity was formed I admit responsability but I only wanted to mean that the birth of the SRoM represented the completition of the formation of a Macedonian national identity not that Macedonians were invented in 1945 an identity that freed itself of the ambiguities and contraddictions that were present in the fathers of Macedonian nationalism like Misirkov and Delchev If you want to put it better feel free to do it Greek Macedonians are actually an ethnic group I think you know quite well how I feel about this as I clearly stated it in the talk page But sometimes compromises are necessary and after all it s only stated that Greek Macedonians live in Macedonia not that they represent an ethnic group And it does seem that the Greeks who live in Macedonia call themselves Macedonians like those that live in Crete call themselves Cretans Tito separated Yugoslav Macedonia from Serbia I think you must have wrongly interpreted this I simply thought it meant that Macedonia was administratively separated from Serbia under whose control in the Kingdom of Serbia before and that of Yugoslavia after it had been There was no resentment towards the Bulgarian repression during the beginning of the Bulgarian occupation of the region by removing that sentance Honestly the removal of this sentence slipped me but I can t help noting now that the statement is unsourced Personally I don t know how Macs reacted to Bulgarian occupation After all my field is ancient not modern Macedonia In conclusion remember that I only edited Telex s text without adding new statements In my view the best way to awnser to those editors who say that the Macedonians were invented in 1945 is in collecting good strong sources For example to make some names Danforth s Macedonian Question or Poulton s Who are the Macedonians As for Telex you should remember that it s a wiki rule to not bite newbies Telex is a very recent that is among us only since April 25 and is clearly not a nationalist but a honest editor who is striving to be NPOV If you believe to see bias in his editing remember that every single editor here me included obviously has his POV and it s a pure illusion that we can kept them out of our editing This is why wikipedia has great possibilities because our bias are emended by the work of others Sorry this was so long Ciao