This book documents the events surrounding the time of Yugoslavia during and post WWII. Several interviews are taken with participants of battles, prisoners of war, political prisoners and others that demonstrate a markedly different picture to the commonly accepted version of events. The advent of the Macedonian Republic within Yugoslavia was filled with a cruel mix of optimism, terror and betrayal, which has left an impact on the psyche of many Macedonians long after the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation.
There are several texts, if any others have the books (came in 2 parts) please feel free to post segments which you find interesting or historically relevant. To begin with, let us see what Mishe Karevski has to say, the nephew of the great Macedonian leader Nikola Karev, who still resides in Krushevo with his family as his ancestors before him.
In the quoted text the nephew of Nikola Karev describes how he observed the Macedonian cause and the liberation of the Aegean become secondary in importance compared to the cause of the Slovenes in Italy and Austria, due to the support the latter received from the Yugoslav Federation. Macedonian patriotism was forcibly rejected by the Yugoslav authorities as the anti-Macedonian disease spread among the more naive and easily led segments of the population. In Mishe's own words, "Everything that was Macedonian was taken down, even the day of Ilinden was not celebrated, instead being declared as a working day".
The next quote is from an interview taken with Risto Jankoski, who talks about an incident regarding a fellow 'Yugoslav' citizen, a Serb named Dragan Kesic:
After being insulted by the Serb in the most dispicable way, the Macedonian, reacting the way all good sons of Macedonia should, hit him and dropped him like a sack of shit. He escaped prosecution due to a good friend called Muric, another Serb. Risto says that "....the insult that the Macedonians were their slaves was burning me, slaves to the Yugoslav Army because we did not have our own army. How did we not have our own army?! All up until the year 1945 we had our own army, that is what liberated the Republic of Macedonia, but they broke it apart."
This was a dark time for the Macedonians, again, to be full of hope and then have it torn away. Long live Macedonia, the Macedonian people, and the Macedonian language, in all its glory.
There are several texts, if any others have the books (came in 2 parts) please feel free to post segments which you find interesting or historically relevant. To begin with, let us see what Mishe Karevski has to say, the nephew of the great Macedonian leader Nikola Karev, who still resides in Krushevo with his family as his ancestors before him.
Striko mi Nikola Karev beshe pretsedatel na Krushevskata Republika. Trojcata (mishe and friends) megju sebe razgovaravme: zoshto da se sudat lugje zatoa shto bile za samostojna i obedineta Makedonija koga so taa ideja Makedonskite revolucioneri se borea vo minatoto, a nivnata ideja ne e celosno ostvarena so osloboduvanjeto samo na Vardarskiot del, rodniot grad na Goce Delchev ushte e pod ropstvo; nasekade se zboruvashe samo za polozhbata na Slovenite vo Italija i vo Avstrija, a shtom se spomnat Makedoncite pod sosednite drzhavi se sudat i se zatvoraat lugjeto; se shto e Makedonsko se potisnuva, duri i denot Ilinden ne se slavi, proglasen e za raboten den itn.
The next quote is from an interview taken with Risto Jankoski, who talks about an incident regarding a fellow 'Yugoslav' citizen, a Serb named Dragan Kesic:
Kako vojnik vo Pula, od eden srbin, Dragan Kesic, bev navreden. Mi reche shto se kochoperam koga nie Makedoncite sme im bile slugi na srbite. Duri i neshto polosho: Vie ste robovi na Srbite, mi reche i mi opcu majka makedonska. Nishto ne mi ostanuvashe, osven da go udram i za toa bevme na raport. Blagodarenie na iskrenosta na ochevidecot Muric ne bev kaznat. No od se najmnogu me boleshe pcovkata, me pecheshe navredata deka nie Makedoncite sme im bile slugi, robovi na srbite vo Jugoslovenskata Armija zashto sme nemale svoja vojska. Kako sme nemale svoja vojska?! Se do 1945 godina si imavme vojska, taa ja oslobodi Republika Makedonija, no ni ja rasturija.
This was a dark time for the Macedonians, again, to be full of hope and then have it torn away. Long live Macedonia, the Macedonian people, and the Macedonian language, in all its glory.
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