Fighting the Turk in the Balkans/The Death of Dame Gruev

[TrueMacedonian]

Thanks guys. Here's another interesting story of another Macedonian;

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[Daskalot]

Very interesting find TM, this clearly shows of the ignorance of the Westerners when they visited Macedonia.

[Risto the Great]

My goodness the hardness of these men!
"The mouth of a Greek dog, child of the devil, as are all Greeks" .... interesting assessment of Greeks of the time.

[TrueMacedonian]

Exactly RTG. First Goce Delchev was betrayed by a "greek spy", then according to Smith's book Gruev was betrayed by a "greek shepherd" or a Vlach who spoke romaika, and Spase's village was betrayed by the "greeks" as well. I guess we should learn from our history and keep this in mind.

[TrueMacedonian]

This is a nice blowup of the first pic.

[George S.]

TM that's a nice photo.In the old days there was heavy duty propaganda going on by both Bulgarian & Greece & other enemeies of Macedonia.People were spied upon & handed over for money to the turks.

[momce]

this is so ridiculous no one in our village or area calls themselves bulgarians we refer to ourselves as nashi or brachtcko which is highly clanish..these are like people who know nothing about us

[George S.]

We should learn from the past as greeks betrayed us to the turks for money etc.Also betrayal by our own peoplerepeats itself throught history.

[momce]

yes thats true..the pics are interesting what is the style of house there they look like vlach style konaki

[momce]

Originally Posted by Risto the Great

My goodness the hardness of these men!
"The mouth of a Greek dog, child of the devil, as are all Greeks" .... interesting assessment of Greeks of the time.

There is another nice one a Macedonian mother tells her son to take this bread and run to the mountains before they turn you into a greek