The assassination on the president can be blamed more on Macedonistic militant groups rather than Bulgarian mobsters. Once the Greeks realise that the conflict about the name is not to uphold territorial demands on Greece but to conceal the truth, they would not be so romantically nationalistic. These attempts justly invoke the Greek opposition but the Greeks take it to the extreme, moved partly by their fears, partly by the characteristic Balkan temperament they possess. If the Greeks succeed, however, the Macedonistic theories will be redundant and that is the reason the RoM Macedonians defend their fantastic interpretation of history. The only possible solution is letting the truth to be known.
External pressures take toll in Macedonia.
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