Gurther

“ Sometimes, the truth hurts. ” — Gurther

Goce Delčev

Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев) Macedonian vojvoda, the most well known vojvoda in IMRO

“ Is there a nation that has suffered so much from its sons, freaks, like the Macedonians! Can there be another place for a Macedonian, except Macedonia? Is there a nation more unhappy than the Macedonian? And is there a wider field for work than in Macedonia? That is the path for the liberation of nations from foreign egos. The Greeks, the Serbs, the Bulgarians followed it. We, the Macedonians, should also follow that path in order to free ourselves from the Turks ” — Goce Delčev,

“ Goce soon became the leader of the Macedonian peasant revolution, which was essentially the Macedonian revolutionary movement.

Goce Delčev as a Macedonian revolutionary and leader of the Macedonian bourgeois-democratic peasant revolution.

Goce Delčev knew that the "Turkish ruling system" could be liquidated and a free and independent Macedonia could be won only through the destruction of that system...

"That nation needs to wake up from the five-century deep sleep that has made the Macedonian quite fat in the knowledge of human justice..."

Goce Delčev ... contributed to such a historical process of empowering the Macedonians as a separate people, which process later developed into a broad movement for the formation of the Macedonian nation. Resolutely rejecting foreign encroachments on Macedonia and also resolutely insisting on the independence of the Macedonian revolutionary movement,

Goce Delčev taught the Macedonian people to rely on their own forces and to prepare for conquest and independence with their own forces.

” — Bulgarian historian Dino Kyusev,

“

"If this (Bulgarian) disease did not exist in our forefathers, from whom it is also an inheritance in us, they would not have fallen under the ugly scepter of the Turkish sultans. It is our duty, of course, not to succumb to this disease, but can we do the same to others? Also, we have something from the Greek diseases, namely, how many heads, so many captains. His desolate glory! . . Everyone wants to shine, so they don't know the falsity of that shine. Woe to those, over whose sufferings all these comedies, det are enacted.

As for spring, almost nothing is certain, which is very sad, but I believe that will become clear.

I'm waiting for us to buy Crimean cartridges, so there will be no need to change to Mannlicher cartridges."

” — Goce Delčev,

Hristo Tatarčev

Hristo Tatarčev (Христо Татарчев) Macedonian revolutionary and founder of MRO

“ Is there a greater tragedy in history than the Macedonian question? The existence of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization had barely become known to the Bulgarian society, so that the Bulgarian politicians and public figures seethed in their fear of anger and resentment: how could a few children have dared to assume the resolution of the Macedonian question? And then a counter-organization was created from the Macedonian sons living in Bulgaria, which were entangled in their mirage of the liberation action of Macedonia by Bulgaria. These Macedonian sons were sacrificed to this policy of the Bulgarian political parties and public figures, and dear fighters fell for it in mutual fratricide, which is still being done today for the same reasons ” — Hristo Tatarchev,

“ Today, the Macedonian's love for the fatherland is not only a feeling, but a commanding duty that rests on his thought and will and stimulates his actions. This national duty requires strict organization, order and discipline. Macedonia will be freed from its present-day tyrant rulers through the persistent struggle of the entire Macedonian people. In the union of the forces of all Macedonians is our strength and our victory. ” — Hristo Tatarchev,

Damjan Gruev

Dame/Damjan Gruev (Даме/Дамјан Груев) Macedonian revolutionary and one of the main organizors of the Ilinden Uprising, he participated in the battle of Smilevo

“ Pasha Efendi, I am addressing you... Macedonians keep their word, and you, namely you, should learn from us the rules of military honor... We hope with our own forces to destroy your brave soldiers and it may not be far hour, when the sun of freedom will shine over blood-soaked Macedonia ” — Dame Gruev,

“ With a systematic action by the Exarchate against the Revolutionary Organization... Revolutionary teachers are appointed by choice and effort of the supreme committee... This deals a great blow to the Revolutionary Organization ” — Dame Gruev,

“ “If there are Greek and Serbian propagandas,” he replied, “why can`t there be a Bulgarian propaganda? There is. There are Bulgarian politicians who are no more our friends than are the Greeks.” ” — Blackwood Magazine interview with Dame Gruev,

“ “On the slope of the blood-soaked and legendary Pelisters lies the charming little village of Smilevo, which gave Macedonia the first apostle of its hard struggle for political freedom and the founder of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.” ” — Makedonische Studentenvereine Im Auslande Club,

“ “by fighting to establish a free and open society – in the form of political autonomy within the Ottoman Empire – where everyone would have the liberty to choose and openly declare their preferred ethnic and religious affiliation, without interference and outside pressure. It is important to note that, even then, there were people that identified themselves as ethnic Macedonians” ” — Damjan Gruev,

Bulgarians admitting their Propaganda

Vasil K'nčov, known ethnographer from Bulgaria

“ “Macedonians are generally developed, cunning, cunning and mean people. The Macedonian wants freedom more than the Thracian and the Bulgarian who lives in northern Bulgaria, but only for someone else to win it for him, not himself. There is not even a spark of patriotism in the Macedonian. It is said that when they put up decorations in a diocese in Macedonia, when the priests advised the population to confess their nationality to the government, some said, 'You will give us money, we will pretend to be Bulgarians.” ” — Georgi Dimitrova,

“ “It is impossible to give precise borders of the area of Macedonia, since this country is not limited with some strict geographic features, nor is it administratively separated by the other countries. Only in the ethnographic sense Macedonia has defined borders, since the Bulgarian tribe is settled in the entire country, and rarely exits its limits. The areas to the north, west and south of Macedonia have predominantly other population. To determine its borders, we will follow mainly the main perception of the population and the determination given by the most skilled recent travelers. The local Bulgarians and Kutsovlachs who live in the area of Macedonia call themselves Macedonians, and the surrounding nations call them Macedonians. Turks and Albanians from Macedonia do not call themselves Macedonians, but when asked where they are from, they respond ‘from Macedonia’ … also Greeks who live in the southern area of Macedonia, do not call themselves Macedonians....” ” — Vasil K'nčov,

“ “You give them money, they turn Bulgarian....And in many places these "Bulgarians" were bought out” ” — Peter Berkovski,

“ “At the beginning of 1904, the Bulgarian trade agent in Thessaloniki, Atanas Shopov, and the Salonika valia Hasan Fehmi Pasha had a conversation in early 1904, during which the valia constantly complained about the Macedonians and asked Shopov: "Are the Macedonians still rampaging in Bulgaria?" To that Shopov replied: " As if Pasha Effendi is not raging when today most of the Macedonian population is in Bulgaria, most of the inhabitants of Sofia are Macedonians; a large part of the officers in the army are Macedonians; a large part of prominent officials are Macedonians; the entire Macedonian intelligentsia from Macedonia is in Bulgaria. The crowd on the streets is also Macedonian." After this valia concluded that the Macedonians play an important role in Bulgaria. To which Shopov added "a very important Pasha Effendi, more important than ever. The role of Macedonians in the fate and life of Bulgarians in general has always been important." To support what he said, Shopov emphasized the cultural contribution made by the Macedonians to the Bulgarians. In that context, he mentions: Father Paisius as the author of the first Bulgarian history; Kiril Pejčinović and his work, which is supposedly in the Bulgarian language; Theodosius of Sinai who opened the first Bulgarian printing house in Thessaloniki and printed the first Bulgarian primer; then a neophyte who opened the first Bulgarian school in Gabrovo, which is why he was considered the patriarch of the Bulgarian school. A special impression is made by the fact that none of them is said to be Bulgarian, but it is emphasized that they are Macedonians by birth. At the same time A. Shopov, emphasized that the Macedonians made a significant contribution to the Bulgarian church issue. The reconfirmation by the valia that the Macedonians made significant contributions to the Bulgarian people is followed by an explanation: "not only for the Bulgarian, but also for the Greek... during the Greek uprising..." At the end of the conversation, Shopov pointed out: So that Pasha Efendi, you see what role the Macedonians have always played in the life of the Bulgarian people. Even more important they play now. If it's a matter of mourning, we from Bulgaria have more right than you (the Turks b.n.) to mourn the Macedonians, why did they take over our strength, they took away the best places and services, they took over our finances and cities , they took over our army and our ministries, they took over our trade, they took over their words in Bulgaria... Deliver us from them for God's sake.” ” — Conversation between Bulgarian agent Atanas Shopov and Xhasan Fehmi,

“ “And the Macedonian will never agree to write those words like that...” ” — D. Panichlova,

Boris Sarafov

Boris Sarafov, (Борис Сарафов) Macedonian revolutionary and voivoda for MRO

“

"Oh Macedonia and the Macedonians

We Macedonians are neither Serbs nor Bulgarians, but simply Macedonians. The Macedonian people exist independently from the Bulgarian and Serbian people. We sympathize with both, Bulgarians and Serbs: whoever helps our liberation, we will say thank you to him, but the Bulgarians and Serbs should not forget that Macedonia is only for the Macedonians"

” — Boris Safarov,

Dimitar Blagoev

Dimitar Blagoev (Димитар Благоев) a known Macedonian socialist who helped in the founding of socialism in Bulgaria.

“ (a conversation with Blagoev in the Bulgarian parlament about Bulgarian history)

"Ya. Sakizov (broad socialist, future social democrat) : Do not forget that they were a colony of Byzantium and its subordinates.

D. Blagoev : Subordinate, but independent in their inner life.

Someone from Ya. Sakyzov's group : Don't forget history!

D. Blagoev : What history? The one you're faking? (Laughter) We do not recognize such a story. We see what the reality is. It is a fact, Mr. People's Representatives, that there was a great struggle between the Bulgarian and Slavic tribes on the Balkan Peninsula. And this process, which Ya. Sakazov told us about and which others also support, is not for the unification of the Bulgarian tribe, but for the conquest of the Slavic tribes of the Balkan Peninsula, and that is why we see the suppression of the Slavic tribes of the Balkan Peninsula, who are relocating en masse in Byzantium and Asia Minor, and on the other hand, they go south to Macedonia, in which the Slavic tribe was preserved for a long time.

G. Danailov : But you are from Zagorichane 

D. Blagoev : I am from Zagorichane, but by the way I am not Bulgarian, I am Macedonian, Macedonian Slav! (Laughter) And as such, if you want to know, I am in favor of Macedonia as a Slavic land that will have its own government

Someone from the right : What are you looking for in Bulgaria then?

D. Blagoev : So the process that is not being talked about is a process of conquest, not of uniting the Bulgarian tribe...

Minister HI Popov : What are Bulgarians called in Zagorichane?

D. Blagoev : If you ask them, they call themselves Christians.

Minister HI Popov : They are called Bulgarians!

D. Blagoev : I don't want to go into this area, but I want to point out what dangerous from YOUR point of view, from the BULGARIAN point of view, theories are developing in OUR history, regarding the process of unification of the Bulgarian tribe...

S. Kosturkov : (indignant)

The presiding Dr. I. Momchilov : G. Kosturkov! Please do not interrupt the speaker.

D. Blagoev : If you are convinced that there are Bulgarians in Dobruzhda, that there are Bulgarians in Mavrovsko, that there are Bulgarians in Macedonia, that there are Bulgarians in Syar, Drama and Kavala, why are you afraid of referendum? If you are convinced that there are Bulgarians somewhere, why are you afraid to hold a referendum and see what they say? Why are you shouting? So you are not sure, so there is something that worries you,"

” — conversation between members of the Bulgarian parlament and Dimitar Blagoev,

BMARC

typical example of Bulgarian falsification of history, no contemporary source at the time neither by Tatarchev himself mentions BMARC. all contemporary sources describe the original name as MRO. The Bulgarian historians do not like to accept this fact

“ if Katarzhiev had been more attentive to article 8 of the Constitution of BMORC, where the seal of the Central Committee is defined, he would have noticed that the inscription Macedonian-Odrina Central Revolutionary Committee is provided for the seal. If we follow the official documents, we will notice that the first known document in the name of the Organization is stamped with the text Macedonian Central Revolutionary Committee, while Odrinsko is not mentioned, and at the beginning of the document in the left corner is the abbreviation CMRC. This press indisputably confirms the writing of the first president of the Organization, Dr. Hristo Tatarchev, who says that the name was the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, headed by the Central Macedonian Revolutionary Committee ” — Vanco Gjorgjiev,

The Bitola Inscription

Computer falsification from the Bulgarian historiography

“

"Borrowers confidently "restore" most of the text, including dates, and want to SHOW what they WANT to be irrefutable evidence of numerous historical events, otherwise unknown.

Unfortunately, there are not even remotely proven criteria for establishing an early South Slavic inscription and the epigraphic material is scattered and extremely controversial. With due respect, I must refute Moshin's assessment that the text (from the tablet) corresponds to the early 11th century. Zaimov's paliographic and linguistic arguments are incorrect and naive. One basic point: Moshin clearly notes the fact that the year (on the plaque) that he confidently restores as 6522 (1014) is glossed over.

Indeed the year (on the plate) is not shown in any photograph (note that Zaimov's plate 2 is inexplicably frieze-touched, while plate 3 is frankly a drawing), nor is the year (on the plate) found on the latex print which (from the plate) was taken by Prof. Igor Sevchenko of Dumbarton Oaks. Assuming that the plate contains no data, one can add 6 and finally 2 and a vertical line with a partial connection which could be F (500); but it looks much more like PS (700) followed by space enough for M (40). If one then assumes the number as 6742, the year would be 1234. This fits nicely with the spelling and language (of the tablet) and identifies Ivan as Assen II, who conquered Macedonia in 1230 AD. It demolishes the inaccurate historical explanations elaborated by the Loans..."

” — Horace Gray Lunt, Harvard professor,

Krste Petkov Misirkov

Krste Petkov Misirkov (Крсте Петков Мисирков) Macedonian author and publisher.

“ Bulgaria and Russia, I can work with both as long as I can liberate my homeland, which should be the goal of every Macedonian ” — Krste P. Misirkov,

“ As a Macedonian and a Russian child, I consider it my duty to serve my homeland - Macedonia and to my second homeland - Russia, which brought me up and took me in the murder of А. A. Rostkovsky ” — Krste P. Misirkov,

Tzar Samuil

Map of the empire ruled by Samuil, per the Bulgarian historiography it was a continuation of the First Bulgarian Empire, just like all other fabricated claims by the Bulgarian historiography its not accepted by most historians since historically its been refered to as The Macedonian Empire as well as Samuil being refered to as a Macedonian ruler.

Ivan Vazov (Иван Вазов) was a Macedonian poet and author in Bulgaria, according to him Samui was a Macedonian emperor.

“

"Samuil, the Macedonian emperor feasted. A noise, a shout. Ruined wines are foaming. It's storming outside...flags are cracking. The night roars, a terrible wind roars.

The army sleeps under a dark sheet... Here and there a spark of the theater of war... In a moment Samuel under his silken tent put down the glass full, jumped...

He listened motionless, pale, fearful, hair standing on end, almost scared... (Oh, my God! - the dukes whispered.)

And the Macedonian emperor thinks that he hears in the scream of a forest wind the cry of twenty blind regiments."

” — Ivan Vazov,

“ Samuil's Slavic state should not be presented as "Western Bulgaria". It sprouts in countries that really entered the territory of Bulgaria, but were purely Slavic in their ethnic form. To explain that Samuil's state is a typical feudal creation in which there is not and cannot be any national consciousness. Samuil's state is primarily a state of the Macedonians, it is stated in the document of the historical commission from 1947. ” — Bulgarian Minister of Education (1947),

“ Professor Jordan Ivanov claims that Tsar Samuel is of Armenian origin; prof. Zlatarski, Pastukhov, Cvetko Stojanov and others. they think that King Samuel's family was of Slavic origin - from the Macedonian tribe of Brsjaci ” — The Bulgarian Historiography (1941),

“ independent Ohrid archbishopric, restored by the great Macedonian king Samuil on the ruins of ancient Justiniania. This struggle for the national church went on from 995 to 1767, when, already under Turkish rule, the archdiocese fell ” — Russian Newspaper "Russian Morning" (1913),

Appeals for Macedonian rights

An appeal signed by the Macedonians in Bulgaria, although sadly today the Bulgarian goverment refuses to recognize them despite 60% of the population in Pirin Macedonia are Macedonians

Older appeal signed by known Macedonian IMRO revolutionaries in 1919, such as Petre Pop Arsov, Rizo Rizov and others

Page 2 of the Older appeal signed by known Macedonian IMRO revolutionaries in 1919

Final page of the Older appeal signed by known Macedonian IMRO revolutionaries in 1919

“ APPEAL TO THE MACEDONIANS IN BULGARIA

DEAR Compatriots,

The Macedonian people waged and wage epic battles for their national liberation. His most daring and fearless sons constantly attacked the Turkish fortress of feudalism and despotism. The enthusiasm and self-sacrifice of the Macedonians created a heroic epic in the midst of the revolutionary struggles of the Macedonian people - the Ilinden Uprising in 1903.

Led boldly by the ideologues of the Macedonian liberation struggle: Goce Delchev, Gjorce Petrov, Dame Gruev, Jane Sandanski, Dimo Hadji Dimov and a plethora of other fighters from Ilinden, made that struggle immortal and wrote the greatest heroic feat on the pages of the national revolutionary movements. The situation in which the national-revolutionary struggle was prepared, organized and carried out demanded firm confidence and fanatical boldness. The Turkish government, although with clear signs of disintegration, was still strong enough to reckon with the Macedonian fighters. The governments of the Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians, which then existed, as conductors of the hegemonic policy in the Balkans, crossed their aspirations for the appropriation of the Macedonian land, for the enslavement and assimilation of the Macedonian people. In order to remove that danger, the Macedonian people had to fight independently, with their own forces and means, against the pack of chauvinists and warmongers, rulers of the Balkan states. However, in the face of unfavorable conditions, the revolutionary energy of the enslaved Macedonians was always in combat readiness.

From the Turkish domination to the present day, the Macedonian people were constantly under slavery and were constantly fighting for their liberation. Looking at the work of the Macedonian liberation struggle in the past, which found a heroic example in the Ilinden Uprising, we Macedonians are facing events, fateful and great.

The Macedonian people survived difficult years of national oppression. After the beginning of the current war, the bloody fascism, in the face of Hitler's Germany, armed to the teeth, with the secret and public cooperation of the Bulgarian and Macedonian fascists, darted towards the Balkans, and with that it also appeared in our homeland Macedonia and filled with its military and police apparatus. The Macedonian people found themselves in an even more terrible economic and national slavery. The Macedonian people were trampled on, wronged and severely exploited. He was placed in terrible darkness, violence and oppression. The people's thought was forged in the iron chains of the blackest darkness, and its bearers were killed in the most inhuman way, or arrested and thrown into prisons, or sent to concentration camps. The property and household goods of the population were set on fire, inquisitorial means were used in general, more terrible than those in the Middle Ages.

Thus, in 1941, the Macedonian People's Liberation Army emerged in Macedonia as a decisive force, which famously continued the traditional and historical struggles of the Macedonian people against the bellicose politics of the Balkans and in close alliance with Marshal Tito's movement to build the freedom of Macedonia and its federal association with all democratic forces in the Balkans. In those conditions, ASNOM (Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Macedonia) was created in our homeland, as an institution of the highest revolutionary and political value, proclaiming the basic law of Macedonia, namely: complete self-determination of the Macedonian people.

Today, a revolutionary people's liberation government has been established in Macedonia, which functions through its organs - the Committee of the People's Liberation Front.

The Macedonian emigration in Bulgaria waged a persistent and bloody struggle in its midst against the agents of the fascist warring policy. With her, she took part in the struggles of the Bulgarian people against fascism and the warring politics and indirectly supported the Macedonian people's struggle for freedom, which is impossible without defeating the fascist cliques in the Balkans, united in recent times behind Hitler's Germany.

Dear compatriots,

There have never been more favorable conditions for the freedom of our homeland as today. Hitler's Germany, that horror of people's freedom, is about to collapse. It is collapsing under the pressure of the glorious Red Army, before the armies of its allies and the struggles of all enslaved peoples, under the weight of its own transgressions. Hitler's beast is mortally wounded. His corpse would soon be placed in the lair he had prepared for himself. With the fall of Hitlerism, the saving slogan of the allies stands out more and more clearly: the right to national self-determination and freedom for the internal organization of all nations.

Today the skies of the nations of Europe are brightening. The peoples of Europe are in a united struggle to destroy Hitler's beast, which is in agony. Thus, the right to free existence of nations is in the hands of the nations themselves. Today Macedonians are reaping victory after victory, in the face of their young National Liberation Army. For the first time, the peoples who are freeing themselves they give each other a brotherly hand for a united fight against the German occupiers. The Balkan nations are unique in that struggle. With the destruction of the most dangerous enemy of the freedom of nations, Hitler's Germany, his supporters fell apart and are falling apart: the Great Bulgarian fascists, the Great Serbian hegemonists, the Great Greek, Great Albanian and Macedonian fascists and all the new servants of Hitler's fascism. In the newly created situation in the whole of Europe and in the Balkans, it is our duty to support the revolutionary government of the Patriotic Front in Bulgaria, simultaneously approaching the support of the revolutionary struggle inside Macedonia itself.

Now, when the Macedonian people are fighting with arms in hand, for their freedom and self-determination, with the support of the insightful and ingenious guide of the Balkan struggles and accelerator of the liberation of the Balkan peoples - Marshal Tito, we are also faced with an iron necessity, with weapons in hand, to join and sacrifice to the National Liberation Struggle for Macedonia, a struggle that is currently in full swing.

Long live the Pan-Balkan national liberation struggle, led by the famous leader Marshal Tito! Long live the indestructible Anglo-Soviet-American bloc!

Long live the glorious and invincible Red Army and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics – liberators of enslaved peoples!

Long live the government of Yugoslavia!

Death to Bulgarian fascism!

Freedom of the people!

” — Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria (1944),

Jane Sandanski

Jane Sandanski (Јане Сандански) Macedonian vojvoda, also known as "The Pirin Tsar"

“ We do not want a Bulgarian Macedonia, we want a Macedonia for the Macedonians, a Macedonia free from the cruel tiranny. Citizens, let's get this out of the way. let us understand each other and let us understand each other. we are all the same; we are all the same. oppression, under one and the same tyranny and aspirations tramble us to be the same. We are not the only ones who suffer from blood. ” — Jane Sandanski,

“ The people of Jane Sandanski, as well as himself, cursed the Bulgarian prince, the prime minister, the Chetniks, the Exarchate, the Government, and they cursed everything Bulgarian! ” — IL. Golaganov,

“ "During the banquet many officers and Sandanski with some friends: Stoju Hadjiev, Georgi Gazepov, D. Arnaudov, D. Ikonomov et al., had a meeting where Sandanski held a glass and said that he was drinking for the health of the new state of Macedonia. Then all the officers simultaneously took out their sabers and began to threaten that heads would fall and tongues would be cut for such a word" ” — Newspaper "Доброволец",

Pavel Šatev

Photo of Pavel Šatev (Павел Шатев) a Macedonian revolutionary and a member of the Gemidžii

“ I understood the direction Tefikov wanted to take and I declared: 'I don't belong to any organization, national or social, I'm just Macedonian ” — Pavel Šatev,

Bulgarian Propaganda

“ Bulgarian propaganda tries to show that they had some part in the liberation of Macedonia, but in all the memories and interviews of the Macedonian partisans and the civilian population, it shows exactly the opposite. The Bulgarian army headed towards Skopje, wanting to parade itself as a liberation army (and, in fact, it did not participate in any battle for the liberation of the capital, because they arrived on the morning of November 14 after the city had already been liberated). In parallel with this dishonest game of the Bulgarian army, Radio Sofia, spread daily misinformation through the Bulgarian media that their armies are playing a liberating role in Macedonia. This was seen with anger by General Apostolski, who then issued an order, with which they were forbidden to enter Skopje at all, and not to parade. ” — Mihailo Apostolski,

Kočo Racin

Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), Macedonian Poet and Author

“ It's clear that we are Macedonians, not Macedonian Bulgarians, its clear that the Serbian and Bulgarian authorities are fighting for control. Both propagandist tell the same story and lies ” — Kočo Racin,

“ The old Serbian policemen, bourgeoisie and officers left, and Bulgarians came in their place. Serbian inspectors went, Bulgarian came Serbian teachers left, Bulgarian teachers came the Serbian language was changed and the Bulgarian language was introduced in the school (namely, in Skopje, for every word, a fine of one lev was feared) Serbian laws were replaced by Bulgarian laws Serbian fascism stopped, and Bulgarian fascism was introduced Only the coat of arms of the Macedonian people has changed! Is this a free Macedonia?, is it ideal for the sons of Macedonia - Delchev, Gruev, Sandanski? NO! MACEDONIA IS NOT FREE, BUT SEVERELY ENSLAVED ” — Kočo Racin,

Keith Brown

“ In “The Past in Question,” I chose to use the language of the British consular sources rather than update or modify it, and to try to translate sources in Greek and Bulgarian into the English of that time, rather than of the early 21st century. I thus used terms like “Bulgar,” “Arnaut,” “Mijak” and “Exarchist” seeking in this way to remind readers of the very different world of the late nineteenth century; when “Greece” referred to a territory roughly half the size of modern Greece; when only a small fraction of people who would call themselves “Bulgars” owed loyalty to the Ottoman-administered “Bulgaria” with its capital in Sofia; when the Sultan sought to restrict the use of the Albanian language, and the term “Macedonia;” and when the prospect of an alliance of convenience between the ambitious nation-states of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece to carve up and nationalize Ottoman territory surely seemed absurd to most. ” — Keith Brown,

“ But what seems clear to me is that when they call themselves Bulgarian, they’re not thinking of themselves as having loyalty to Sofia, to the Bulgarian state. they're using it to refer to themselves by religion or by language at a time when Bulgarian for them doesn't mean nationality Bulgarian and loyal to Sofia and as soon as it begins to mean that, and as soon as they become aware that people are taking their statement of being Bulgarian as meaning being loyal to Sofia, they resist it and they start changing the way they call themselves ” — Keith Brown,

Propaganda by Bulgarian Fascist during WW2

photo of a parade organized by the Macedonian Partisans after the liberation of Veles, Bulgaria didn't participate at all during the Macedonian liberation in WW2

“ apprently feared most were the autonomist tendencies among the Macedonians..... Some important differences between Macedonia and the rest of Bulgaria nevertheless remained. Macedonia was an ethnic patchwork, with many inhabitants who did not regard themselves as Bulgarians; as a result, the occupiers made energetic efforts to "Bulgarize” them, either by propaganda or by force.....After the terrible treatement of the Serbs it was not surprising that many Macedonians cheered the entering Bulgarians. One resident of Skopie later explained, “Of course we cheered; we had no way of knowing then that the Bulgarians would just repeat all the mistakes the Serbs had made. ” — Lee Miller,

Petar Acev

Photo of Petar Acev (Петар Ацев), a relatively known Macedonian revolutionary.

“ We Macedonians must always keep the Macedonian ideal above all else. And Macedonia for the Macedonians. United, free and independent Macedonia. The eloquent, persuasive and all-satisfying and prideful ideal

There is no Macedonian heart that will not be moved by it, as long as there is one. who will point it out before the world and all when. The internecine quarrels have stopped, let the hatred, the fruit of lack of culture, also stop. Respecting one another and giving everyone a place in the ranks of the Macedonian phalanx. Between us there is no more room for groups and cliques. The relations between the centers of ideological representation must be correct, fraternal, tolerant, tolerant. Thanks to the ideological but not the bloody struggles, the Macedonian issue between us got its present form

” — Petar Acev,

Kresna–Razlog uprising

Stamp of the Macedonian Kresna Uprising (1878) which says "Печать Началнїк Щаба" written in pre-codified Macedonian

“

"Organization of the Macedonian Uprising, Vlahi village 1878

1. The uprising in Macedonia, which is now still local, should spread throughout Macedonia.

2. People from Macedonia itself, who feel Macedonian and love the freedom of their homeland, participate in the uprising.

3. All Macedonian residents can participate in the uprising, regardless of religion or nationality, as long as they love freedom.

4. All well-wishers of Macedonians from neighboring and more distant countries can participate in the Macedonian Uprising, if they obey the Macedonian Uprising Committee and sincerely advocate for the liberation of Macedonia."

” — Nikola Maleševski,

Iljo Maleševski, Macedonian Vojvoda, one of the main organizors of the Kresna uprising

“

"Macedonians!

Macedonia our mother rose and with bitter cries under the Turkish fire and yatagan. Our suffering and with blood covered parents, sons and brothers are calling us to take up arms against the fife centuries en-slavers and violators, and our disgraced mothers, wives and sisters are crying with bitter tears in their eyes under the dirty and indecent Turk lawlessness and cry on our devastated homes and waste for us to respond to them.

Macedonian and Bulgarian Heroes!

Our holy lion is roaring through our Macedonian forests and valleys, mountains and deserts and is calling us to take up arms. Wherever you are, hurry up to take up arms, to deliver those innocent victims from this shameless and disgraceful situation. Remember that our fathers and grandfathers fought and spilled their blood for the freedom of Greeks and Serbs... Look up on the last years and you will see, that the blood of our... still stains on the Alexandrian and Shipinian passage, which blood they did not spare for our common freedom…

Macedonians!

It is time to convince our educated traitors, that Macedonia can even now, after five centuries of slavery, still give birth to and have in itself Heros!."

” — Iljo Maleševski,

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"On the occasion of the death of the great Macedonian hero, Grandfather Ilio Voivoda, we decided to release this humble worker with the aim of joining that appreciative society for which the memory of Grandfather Ilio, the worthy son of the Malashev Balkan, will live forever. Grandpa Ilio fought against the dark sultans for 50 years, and only those who are fans of the executioner of the Bosphorus, the great bloodthirsty Sultan Hamid, will not say: "Eternal memory"! Long live his memory!"

” — Atanas Razdolov,

Goce Delčev's Nephews

Goce Delčev with friends and family

“ Goce, who with all his revolutionary activity and understanding actually contributed extremely much to the formation of the Macedonian national consciousness, Macedonian Slavic, neither Bulgarian nor Serbian ” — Nephew of Goce Delčev,

“ Goce also defined the moral and political tendencies of the Macedonian people. Here: he would be happy - he did not pursue the freedom of the Macedonian land", but of the Macedonian population", he did not hate the Ottomans as a people, but fought against their ruling system". We repeat, he would be happy: the Macedonian people faithfully keep this covenant of his - with blood he watered his land and the fight against everything black, oppressive and obscurantism; with joy, a mother separated herself from her son, a man from a woman, children from parents, in order to get there - to erase tribal differences from her mind and build her new day as a free federal Macedonia, an equal unit in the New Tito's Yugoslavia. Not only that. and to continue further - through Berlin to enter the world as a field for cultural competition of nations ” — Nephew of Goce Delčev,

Ivan Mihailov

Vančo/Ivan Mihailov a Macedonian revolutionary with pro-nazi idelogy and pro-terroist ideals

“ The goal of Michailov and his followers was to establish an independent Macedonian state. The Macedonians, by the peace treaty, were divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia. ” — The Waterbury Democrat newspaper,

“ Advices from Sofia state that Ivan Mihailoff, a Macedonian Revolutionary leader, is reported to be threatening to march on the Bulgarian Capital on short notice. The population in Sofia is reported panic stricken. Public buildings are occupied by troops. The streets are deserted. ” — The Daily Alaska empire newspaper,

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