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Our responsibility as a nation is indeed immense. We elected officials that never addressed the issue head on and thus this negligence (and stupidity) allowed a small country such as FYROM to dare to doubt the "Greekness" of Macedonia as well as to distort and ignore its rightful Greek history. There is much at stake here folks, and the FYROM administration only knows this too well. That is why Skopjan Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has organized many festivals to erect statues of Greece's Alexander the Great or of Philip, instead of actually focusing on the real problems that are occurring within his country's boarders such as the rifts between Slavic and Albanian communities.
The report also revealed a document by the US State Department which shows that Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, in cooperation with the Soviet Union, sought to promote the expansion of this area up to the Aegean Sea. It proves that Tito changed the name of the area to Macedonia in just one night!
What is also worth noting is the US government position on all of this. At the time it considered the debate about a "Macedonian" nation to be unjustified , and are you ready for this.... showed its support to Greece stressing that it would consider any government responsible and accountable if it ever turned on Greece! This of course was because it was the period of the Cold War and the US was in a rift with the former USSR.
Oh how the times have changed since then....
When the Cold War ended, anyone or anything that sided with Russia or had friendly relations with this country was thereafter considered an enemy to the US.... My... my... What a shame!