Talk:Socialist Republic of Macedonia

message: Before going into naming issues, a more important problem is obvious in this article: You read it all and you virtually take nothing other than it is the predecessor of FYR Macedonia. Is that reallhy the best possible? Aren't there sources on it? What was going on in it from the 40s till the 90s. --Leladax (talk) 16:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Slovenia and SR Montenegro have the same problems. Most of the Yugoslav editors aren't active any more, or are too busy with petty ethnic disputes. BalkanFever 10:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surpringly little content  

message: Which country did precede the Socialist Republic of Macedonia till September 1944? Hitler ordered the invasion of Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941 and on 17 April, the weak Yugoslav Army capitulated. The Yugoslav government surrendered. The Bulgarians occupied much of what is today the Republic of Macedonia as well as parts of Southern Serbia and Northern Greece. It officially annexed the occupied areas, which had long been a target of Bulgarian nationalism on 14 May 1941. Bulgaria ordered its troops to prepare for withdrawal from former Yugoslavia and on 8 September 1944, when the Bulgarians changed sides and joined the Soviet Union. Jingiby (talk) 18:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kingdom of Yugoslavia or Kingdom of Bulgaria?  

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message: Associating, or informally recognizing this break-up republic of old Yugoslavia, at any level and in any syntax of a name with the word "Macedonia" is an embarrassing anachronism, which Wikipedia at least, should have no interest to perpetuate, or support. Supporting such association, as the page in reference reveals, implies that people who live in that territory, are somehow or in part descendants of ancient Macedonia of King Philippe and Alexander the Great, a claim that is quite nebulous, at best. The majority of the people who live in this break-up republic (the result of the break-up of Yugoslavia) are of Slavic descent, a race that appeared in the Balkan peninsula eons later than the ancient Macedonians of King Philippe, and Alexander the Great. And, as far as the real, current-date Greeks that do live in the province of Macedonia-Greece are concerned, the mere utter of the word Macedonia in any name such as "Socialist Republic of Macedonia" or "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" or even "Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Macedonia, Eeeiaieeeaiooo" creates EXTREME SOCIAL UNREST AND UPHEAVAL within the Greeks of Northern Greece, who live in the Province of Macedonia, AND SPEAK THE GREEK LANGUAGE (for example, see: <ref>http://www.stoxos.gr/2017/11/blog-post_249.html). In addition, the mere mention in the Wikipedia page with the title "Socialist Republic of Macedonia" contributes to the already tense relations between the two neighboring countries of Greece, and Turkey (see: http://voiceofmacedonia.blogspot.com/2018/02/blog-post_66.html). Therefore, if Wikipedia wants to perpetuate this historical error, as well as further intensify the relations of Greece with its neighbors, then by all means, let Wikipedia support this lie, that the peoples living in this, basically unnamed break-up republic from the old Yugoslavia, are somehow related or associated, with the name "Macedonia." Please, don't do it. Please take down the page, with title "Socialist Republic of Macedonia." The only peoples who call themselves that, are the peoples who live in that territory. It would be like Quebec, for example, calling themselves "Former Canadian Republic of New York" if Canada broke up. Though, in the case of Macedonia, the error is even more severe, based on known historical records.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.99.9.207 (talk) 06:26, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  That break-up republic of Yugoslavia, should not be associated with the term "Macedonia" in any way. 

message: The text under the first image was a complete misrepresentation of reality. WW2 monuments everywhere around the world are NOT communist propaganda. The Macedonian Partisans were mostly non-communists, only 20% of them were associated with the CPM. In Macedonia today they are celebrated and honored even by anti-communist anti-fascists. 
Also, the text under the picture of the Kolishevski monument included mentions of his anti-Bulgarian line, which although correct, does not belong under that image on this specific article. Blesingri (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please no agenda pushing 

message: Hi, there is a separate article called Antiquisation on Wikipedia, concerning this issue. Macedonian antiquization is regarded as a rather young phenomenon that developed its full potential for political mobilization in the early 2000s, as a substantial element of the political agenda of the then ruling party VMRO-DPMNE. Some see the background of antiquization in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the “myth of ancient descent among Orthodox Slavic speakers in Macedonia, adopted partially due to Greek cultural inputs. However there was not such process in SR Macedonia at all. After the Second World War, Macedonian and Serbian scholars usually defined the ancient local tribes in the area of the Central Balkans as Daco-Moesian. The leading research goal in the SR Macedonia during Yugoslav times was to prove the establishment of some kind of Paionian identity and to separate it from the western "Illyrian" and the eastern "Thracian" entities. The idea of Paionian identity was constructed to conceptualize that Vardar Macedonia was neither Illyrian nor Thracian, favouring a more complex division, contrary to scientific claims about strict Thraco-Illyrian Balkan separation in neighbouring Bulgaria and Albania. Yugoslav Macedonian historiography argued also that the plausible link between the Slav Macedonians and their ancient namesakes was, at best, accidental. Jingiby (talk) 08:39, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Bradley 789, more info on your question about the name issue, you can find here: North Macedonia. Names and etymology. Regards. Jingiby (talk) 08:57, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antiquisation 

message: The quote provided from the first source for the assertion "Yugoslav dinar (1945-1992)" is: "In April 1945 war - time and pre - war currencies were called in and replaced by a new dinar with an exchange rate of one new to ten old dinars." The old dinar is likely still referring to the Yugoslav dinar of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Thus, it does not support that the dinar only began to be used in 1945, just that the new dinar became used in 1945. The second source for this assertion states that the Yugoslav dinar was legal in Macedonia until 1993, however SR Macedonia ceased to exist in 1991 so the termination year should be given as 1991 (not 1992).
The quote provided from the second source for the assertion "Bulgarian lev (1944-1945)" does not support that the lev was in circulation after the liberation of Skopje, just an unrelated fact that Macedonian authorities refused to hand over funds to Bulgaria. The third source supports that Bulgarian currency was in circulation during occupation only. --Local hero talk 19:48, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's about some absolute misunderstanding or just a blind bias. There is not a single piece of evidence that, until April 1945, a currency other than the Bulgarian lev circulated in Vardar Macedonia. Thanks. Jingiby (talk) 20:13, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to address the points above. It's not a major content issue but I'm not comfortable leaving a claim up that isn't appropriately backed up. --Local hero talk 03:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency