FYROManian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zoran Petrov, stated recently that it is redundant, even useless to react to a statement made by Elias Panagiotaros, a member of Greece's Golden Dawn party who said that when the Golden Dawn party will govern Greece, "gypsy-skopjans" will cease to exist.
According to Petrov, "this statement comes at a period that marks exactly 100 years since Greece set foot and OCCUPIED Aegean Macedonia. The evidence for this statement of mine is a document by the Greek king Georgios I, dated October 1912, which is called 'Decree for occupation.' Therefore, when after the Balkan wars Turkey was defeated by the alliance of Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria, Romania and Montenegro, the Greek King proclaimed the "occupation" of Aegean Macedonia. Not "liberation" or "return" but "occupation", which means that until then Greece did not consider the territory of Macedonia as its own."
Petrov believes there is a historical continuity with regards to the relations of Greece where the former Yugoslav Republic is concerned; a historical constant which remains unchanged for a century.
The only thing that needs to be said about the article published in 'Nova Makedonija'* is that our neighbours have realized Greece is not as it used to be -in other words there has been a bigger POLITICAL AWAKENING- and they think that the Golden Dawn is the reason for this PATRIOTIC swing, or change. Perhaps somebody should inform them that the Golden Dawn party would not have existed if the previous Greek government of PASOK had done its work correctly, not only in financial matters, but also in the foreign policy.
The Greek people are sick and tired of being humiliated about their obvious history and now are finally answering back to the black propaganda being pumped out by FYROM.
As for the alleged "OCCUPATION" of Macedonia, if King George has issued a decree about it, in legal terms it means POSSESSION, not occupation, as our neighbours would like to believe. Unfortunately, FYROManians are accustomed to the communist understanding of things, in which the system was not interested in an actual change of the life of its citizens, but in an iconic change of reality keeping things as they are, but changing their name. In their mind, that changes the reality!
Petrov's attack against the Golden Dawn party is fully understandable. The principles of the nationalistic VMRO–DPMNE party and the Golden Dawn party are similar on the surface and it is obvious that Petrov and his associates do not want to have any competition in the Balkans.
Nonetheless, one must make a distinction between the two. The Golden Dawn party wants to keep anything that is already Greek... Greek. This type of thinking is termed "patriotism" not radical nationalism. Whereas the FYROManian VMRO–DPMNE party wants to keep anything that is Slavic or Skopjan, but at the same time it also wants everything else that belongs to its neighbors, i.e. Greek and Bulgarian regions of Macedonia as well as the area of Prohor Pcinski, and the Albanian shores of Ohrid. And this dear friends is what is termed radical "nationalism".
For instance, FYROManian historiography seeks ancient roots (even when the roots are not their own) just as Germany's Nazis did over 70 years ago. (i.e. Nibelungenlied -at least they were their own roots-. And because of this, not only is the VMRO-DPMNE a radical nationalistic party but it is also suffering from "ultra-nationalism".
Marcus Alexander Templar
MacedoniaHellenicLand
Reference to the text in romanized Serbo-Bulgarian: "Kako 'ciganoskopjanite' da gradat dobrososedstvo so Atina?", by Aleksandar Srbinovski, "Nova Makedonija", No 22742, 29-11-2012
http://www.novamakedonija.com.mk/NewsDetal.asp?vest=112912816401&id=9&setIzdanie=22742
