Macedonians and the Civil War in Greece Volume 2 Untruths and Truths By Pavle Rakovski (Translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto Stefov) Macedonians and the Civil War in Greece Volume 2 Untruths and Truths Published by: Risto Stefov Publications [email protected] Toronto, Canada All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written consent from the author, except for the inclusion of brief and documented quotations in a review. Copyright 2019 by Pavle Rakovski e-book edition ********** February 22, 2019 ********** 2 INDEX I. FROM ANOTHER FRIEND .................................................6 A. ABOUT THE ROOTS OF EVIL..............................................7 1. Errors, omissions, weaknesses.......................................................7 2. Imported dogmatism ......................................................................9 3. What do the protagonists of the guerrillas think? ........................11 4. Thorough cleansing......................................................................12 5. Moments from the CPG’s history ................................................13 6. The CPG founding congress ........................................................20 B. THE FASCIST OCCUPATION (1941-1944) ........................24 1. According to Minister Averov .....................................................24 2. Unusual events .............................................................................25 3. The CPG was first to raise the NOB (National Liberation War) flag ...................................................................................................26 4. Facts of capital importance ..........................................................28 5. A miracle of nature: “Slavophone Greeks”! ................................35 6. Who was Siantos? ........................................................................39 7. The attack on Siantos came to full expression.............................40 8. Anti-Macedonian practices ..........................................................45 9. The great evil ...............................................................................49 10. They say one thing and think and do another ............................51 11. Voden Region ............................................................................55 12. Epilog .........................................................................................58 13. To the previous text....................................................................58 C. THE GREEK CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND..........................65 1. Nikos Zahariadis (CPG Secretary General ..................................65 2. Unilateral Civil War.....................................................................66 3. England - a “great friend” of Greece............................................69 4. Some other characteristic maneuvers...........................................71 5. Testimonials .................................................................................74 6. The occult side of events..............................................................77 7. The most explosive weapon.........................................................80 II ANTI-MACEDONIAN-ISM ...............................................85 A. PRIOR TO AND DURING THE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR ............................................................................................85 B) IN THE COURSE OF THE GREEK CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND .....................................................................................92 Anti-Macedonian-ism in DAG’s ranks ............................................95 Anti-Macedonian-ism in NOF’s ranks.............................................97 3 Anti-Macedonian-ism in the immigrant ranks ...............................103 III THE COURCE AND PROBLEMS OF A SAGA ............107 Silence about a crime is equally as strong as the crime itself ........107 About the beginning of the Greek Civil War.................................108 Siantos’s CPG leadeship and its politics........................................110 About the Varkiza agreement.........................................................114 Zahariadis’s CPG leadeship and its politics...................................116 About the politics of the “Greek Axis”..........................................121 The CPG and Macedonian people .................................................128 NOF and the “Greek Axis” (1945-1949) .......................................141 IV. ABOUT THE BOOK “EGEISKI BURI” (AEGEAN STORMS) ..............................................................................160 BY VANGEL AIANOVSKI - OCHE ...................................160 1. A joyous event ...........................................................................160 2. Good reviews .............................................................................160 3. The reactionaries and NOF ........................................................162 4. Significant meaning ...................................................................164 5. Autobiography ...........................................................................165 6. Irresponsible manipulation of events .........................................165 7. Incorrectness ..............................................................................167 8. Falsification................................................................................172 9. Conspiracy .................................................................................177 10. Throwing mud on others ..........................................................179 11. He was that which he was not..................................................179 12. Inventions.................................................................................180 13. Co-authors................................................................................182 14. The real Macedonian cadres.....................................................184 15. Insufficient endeavors ..............................................................186 V. PROTEST LETTER SENT TO THE SKM CENTRAL COMMITTEE........................................................................190 CRITICAL REMARKS.................................................................192 VI. ACTUALITIES FROM A NEWER HISTORY..............207 VII. ON THE GROUNDS OF ONE DOCUMENT ..............222 VIII PROBLEMS FROM THE NEWEST MACEDONIAN HISTORY ..............................................................................236 IX. MATERIALS ON THE HISTORY OF THE MACEDONIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN THE AEGEAN PART OF MACEDONIA.......................284 PROBLEMS FROM OUR MOST RECENT HISTORY..........287 4 X. AS ALWAYS “THE EARTH WILL CONTINUE TO REVOLVE” ...........................................................................348 LITERATURE ...........................................................................372 ACRONYMS .............................................................................375 About the author.........................................................................377 5 I. FROM ANOTHER FRIEND (Note to the publisher: The first seven parts of this book are contained in the author’s manuscript entitled “Records (Memories - Reflections - Findings)” - book 2, prepared for publishing in 1977, but have not yet been published. The author has noted that even though every part of these notes represents a complete whole, they are complementary notes and need to be placed in one book). 6 A. ABOUT THE ROOTS OF EVIL 1. Errors, omissions, weaknesses... The people’s revolution in Greece, as well as the Macedonian people’s liberation movement, as its reserve or component, was defeated by the combined forces of the domestic and international reactionaries. One time it was defeated when the “Greek People’s Liberation Army” - ELAS (1941-1945) was liquidated by agreement (Varkiza, February 12, 1945), and the second time was when the “Democratic Army of Greece” - DAG (1946-1949) was disastrously crushed in its own “fortified defensive positions”. The Macedonian people were the backbone of DAG’s main strike force and the revolution in the northern part of the Greek state. The Macedonian people suffered the most especially in the main hotspot of the revolution. According to official Greek census statistics taken before and after the people’s revolution, in 1940 and in 1951, 46 Macedonian villages in the border zone ceased to exist. The villages were completely destroyed with no one left alive and as a result were erased from postwar geographical maps. The population was halved or significantly reduced in another 179 villages (Naum Peiov, “Macedonians and the Greek Civil War”, INI, 1968, p. 172.) Over 15,000 elite Macedonian fighters were physically liquidated in suspicious battles, while another 60-70 thousand were driven out of their ancestral homes and scattered around the world, outside the Greek state. Percentage wise Macedonian losses in the joint struggle were about twenty times higher than the Greek ones, meaning, Macedonians spilled about twenty times more blood, lost more human lives and suffered more material destruction than the Greeks. Because of this it is understandable why the Macedonian people would be interested to learn the truth and the real reasons