Original sentence: In Bulgaria historians, specialists in the Macedonian question such as Tsanko Serafimov connect the establishment of the party and the spread of Macedonian nationalism in the Greek region of Macedonia as a whole to a large extent with the disinterest of the Bulgarian state after 1944
Edited sentence: And Bulgarian nationalist politicians like Kostadin Kostadinov add that despite the Greek state's negative attitude towards locals with Macedonian self-consciousness, it does not treat them as criminals, unlike those who identify themselves as ethnic Bulgarians.In Bulgaria historians, specialists in the Macedonian question such as Tsanko Serafimov connect the establishment of the party and the spread of Macedonian nationalism in the  Aegean Macedonia as a whole to a large extent with the disinterest of the Bulgarian state after 1944