"We are Macedonians" Travellers Notebook (1921)

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  • TrueMacedonian
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 3810

    "We are Macedonians" Travellers Notebook (1921)






    This is a perfect example of what Mark Mazower called "ignorant westerners". He kept calling them "Macedo-Bulgars" yet they ALL said "WE ARE MACEDONIANS"!!!!
    Slayer Of The Modern "greek" Myth!!!
  • TrueMacedonian
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 3810

    #2
    This actually coincides with an older post - http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum...read.php?t=985

    on why Macedonian sympathies would sway toward the Bulgarians than the other baby states of the balkans.
    Slayer Of The Modern "greek" Myth!!!

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    • Daskalot
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 4345

      #3
      Of course we are Macedonians, but western writers did not listen to the people, the mostly relied on their Dragoman(in Ottoman times) or their Translator in post Ottoman times.

      Good one TM. Kudos!
      Macedonian Truth Organisation

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      • Soldier of Macedon
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2008
        • 13670

        #4
        Originally posted by TrueMacedonian View Post
        This actually coincides with an older post - http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum...read.php?t=985

        on why Macedonian sympathies would sway toward the Bulgarians than the other baby states of the balkans.
        Nikola Karev's statement about leaning towards Bulgaria because they were the only one's giving assistance at the time also supports the above.
        In the name of the blood and the sun, the dagger and the gun, Christ protect this soldier, a lion and a Macedonian.

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        • Pelister
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2008
          • 2742

          #5
          There is another factor why they might have been leaning more towards Bulgaria.

          There was a huge Macedonian emigrant community in Bulgaria, and Macedonians filled government positions, filled the ranks of the military and the civil service - and as you say there was more sympathy (among Macedonians) in Bulgaria than anywhere else.

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