The Truth About Greek Occupied Macedonia
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TheTruth about Greek Occupied Macedonia By Hristo Andonovski & Risto Stefov (Translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto Stefov) The Truth about Greek Occupied Macedonia 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 2017 by Hristo Andonovski & Risto Stefov e-book edition January 7, 2017 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface................................................................................................6 CHAPTER ONE – Struggle for our own School and Church .......8 1. Macedonian texts written with Greek letters .................................9 2. Educators and renaissance men from Southern Macedonia.........15 3. Kukush – Flag bearer of the educational struggle........................21 4. The movement in Meglen Region................................................33 5. Cultural enlightenment movement in Western Macedonia..........38 6. Macedonian and Bulgarian interests collide ................................41 CHAPTER TWO - Armed National Resistance ..........................47 1. The Negush Uprising ...................................................................47 2. Temporary Macedonian government ...........................................49 3. The 1903 Ilinden Uprising ...........................................................53 CHAPTER THREE - IMRO (United) in Greek occupied Macedonia....................................................................................60 I ................................................................................................80 MACEDONIANS IN GREEK OCCUPIED MACEDONIA AND THE ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLE (1941-1944)...........80 I ................................................................................................80 CHAPTER FOUR - The Macedonian people’s struggle in Greek occupied Macedonia against the triple occupation and for national freedom ........................................................................................81 1. Resistance against restoring the old bureaucracy.........................81 2. Organizing NOB in Greek occupied Macedonia .........................85 3. First repressive measures instigated by the enemy ......................89 4. First armed groups of NOB..........................................................91 5. Partisan unit “Vicho” formed in Lerin Region ............................94 6. The “Lazo Trpovski” unit in Kostur region .................................95 CHAPTER FIVE - SNOF in Lerin and Kostur Regions and the Voden Region Macedonian Regional Committee........................99 1. Establishment of SNOF in Lerin Region ...................................100 2. CPG creates a separate Macedonian SNOF in Voden Region...102 3. SNOF in Kostur Region.............................................................104 4. SNOF’s Regional Conference....................................................109 5. SNOF Dismantled ......................................................................110 CHAPTER SIX - Creation of Macedonian battalions ...............114 Severing the Macedonian battalions ..............................................121 I ..............................................................................................137 3 IN THE STORM OF THE GREEK CIVIL WAR (1945-1949) ................................................................................................137 I ..............................................................................................137 CHAPTER SEVEN - Terror ......................................................138 l. Terror, murder and mass pogroms committed in Greek occupied Macedonia......................................................................................143 2. Terror in Voden Region .............................................................145 3. Terror in Meglen Region............................................................146 4. Terror in Lerin Region ...............................................................147 5. Terror in Kostur Region.............................................................148 6. Terror in Gumendzhe Region.....................................................150 7. Terror in Prespa Region .............................................................152 8. Uproar against the terror from abroad........................................153 9. Nationalist press inspirer and instigator of terrorist actions.......155 10. Greek governments falling.......................................................158 11. An election farce ......................................................................162 CHAPTER EIGHT - NOF, AFZH, NOMS ...............................166 CHAPTER NINE - Spring offensive .........................................192 1. The Spring Offensive .................................................................193 2. Start of the offensive ..................................................................197 3. CPG Central Committee 3rd Plenum..........................................205 CHAPTER TEN - First NOF Congress – The Epic of Gramos.209 1. The Epic of Gramos and Malimadi – 4th CPG Central Committee Plenum ...........................................................................................213 2. CPG Central Committee 5th Plenum – NOF 2nd Congress.........218 CONCLUSION..........................................................................223 EPILOGUE ................................................................................227 WHY A GREEK CIVIL WAR HAD TO TAKE PLACE.............230 PROOF THAT BRITAIN WAS BEHIND THE GENOCIDE IN GREECE ........................................................................................231 THE GREEK CIVIL WAR WAS A PERPETRATED AND CONTROLLED WAR...................................................................235 RISE OF THE MACEDONIAN REBEL COUNTER-BANDS ...253 SNOF CREATED TO DESTROY THE MACEDONIAN REBEL COUNTER-BANDS......................................................................257 TENSIONS MOUNT.....................................................................259 GREEKS MANIPULATING THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE....260 START OF THE GREEK CIVIL WAR........................................264 MASSIVE EVACUATION OF MACEDONIANS ......................266 4 EVACUATION OF MACEDONIAN CHILDREN FROM GREECE ........................................................................................268 AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE GREEK CIVIL WAR..272 GREECE – AN ARTIFICIAL CREATION..................................278 MACEDONIAN SCHOOLS IN GREECE ...................................282 GREEK ABUSES AGAINST THE MACEDONIANS ................282 MACEDONIANS LEAVING MACEDONIA..............................285 GREECE – BULGARIA AND THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION ........................................................................................................287 MACEDONIANS EXILED FROM THEIR HOMELAND IN GREECE ........................................................................................288 THE TERM SLAVO-MACEDONIANS.......................................288 EFFECTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA DECLARING ITS INDEPENDENCE ..........................................290 HOW MACEDONIA BECAME GREEK – A HISTORY ...........291 OLD INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS PROVE MACEDONIANS EXIST..............................................................296 GREEKS MARRYING MACEDONIANS TO ASSIMILATE THEM ............................................................................................301 IS THERE ANY MACEDONIAN LIFE LEFT IN GREECE TODAY?........................................................................................302 IS THERE ANY MACEDONIAN LIFE LEFT IN BULGARIA TODAY?........................................................................................304 IS THERE ANY MACEDONIAN LIFE LEFT IN ALBANIA TODAY?........................................................................................305 ACRONYMS .............................................................................307 5 Preface The Macedonian people’s fate is similar if not identical to the fate of the Irish of Ireland and to the Kurds of Kurdistan. Those lands faced the same tragic fate as Macedonia - to be mercilessly butchered into two or more parts, as dictated by the greedy appetites of their imperialistic neighbours. However, the people of these countries; the Irish and the Kurds, did not have to live through the unthinkable humiliation perpetrated against the Macedonians, using brute force to deprive them of their mother tongue and imposing a foreign nationality on them. Even under Great Britain the Irish remained what they have always been, Irish. And even though the Kurds in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria lost their territorial unity, they still have kept their ethnic mark, their language and traditions. In 1912 the Macedonian people lost their national compactness and territorial unity. The ruling regimes in Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria, through their propaganda campaigns, not only strived to turn the Macedonian people into “Serbs”, “Greeks” and “Bulgarians” but told the world that “Macedonians do not exist”. The Macedonians in Greece were then exposed to all sorts of torment. They were forced against their