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Guilty Without Guilt Guilty Without Guilt Short Version By By Stoian Kochov Contributor: Spiro Mavrovski Translated from Macedonian to English and Edited By Risto Stefov Guilty Without Guilt Short Version 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 Stoian Kochov e-book edition ********** December 20, 2019 ********** 2 INDEX ARGUMENTS (1945-1949)..........................................................5 INTRODUCTORY NOTES ..........................................................8 FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME ...............................................23 A LETTER FROM RISTO BURNAZOV...................................27 DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PROCESSES AND EVENTS AFTER WORLD WAR II ...........................................................34 CHRONICLES (FROM OUR HISTORIOGRAPHY) ................38 DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1945 AND THE CREATION OF NOF........................................................................................40 DIRECTIVES FROM NOF CENTRAL TO THE NOF DISTRICTS .................................................................................47 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1945.............58 DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1946....................................60 DEVELOPMENT OF NOF, AFZH AND NOMS FORCES ......65 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1946.............68 DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1947....................................71 CADRES OF THE DEMOCRATIC ARMY OF GREECE........82 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1947.............85 DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1948....................................87 MOTIVES FOR THE CHILD COLLECTION PROGRAM ......89 REVIEW OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1948 .......................101 IDENTITY UNDER WHICH THE MACEDONIAN CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AND EXILED.................................................104 GREEK GOVERNMENT COMPLAINTS AND CONCERNS FOR THE CHILDREN TAKEN BY THE CPG AND DAG....117 MORE DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1948.....................131 DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN 1949..................................134 HOW EMPTY PROMISES BECAME PART OF THE WAR.135 SOVIET UNION ORDERS THE CPG TO END THE WAR...137 CPG MANIPULATING THE MACEDONIANS IN EXILE ...142 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1949...........146 DEALING WITH THE PAST...................................................157 HISTORIOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF NOF AND ITS ACTIVITIES IN THE GREEK CIVIL WAR ..................................................160 EPILOGUE - RUDIMENTARY HISTORY.............................171 APPENDICES ...........................................................................179 THE POLITICAL REFUGEES AFTER THE GREEK CIVIL WAR ..........................................................................................191 3 CONCLUSION..........................................................................212 ADDRESS TO THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE: SPIRO MAVROVSKI’S OPINION AND COMMENTARY ON STOIAN KOCHOV’S BOOK ...................................................214 ADDRESS TO THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE: SPIRO MAVROVSKI’S COMMENTARY ON THE 2016 ELECTIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA...................................216 IT IS TIME FOR PHILANTHROPY AND NOT FOR THREATS ....................................................................................................244 FOOTNOTES - (CLARIFICATIONS) .....................................247 YALTA ......................................................................................263 DRAMATIC EVENTS IN GREECE AND SOVIET POLICY - 1945-1949 ..................................................................................264 NIKOS ZAHARIADIS’S DIRTY ROLE..................................264 THE VARKIZA AGREEMENT ...............................................265 YUGOSLAVIA’S ROLE IN THE GREEK CIVIL WAR ........265 “WHITE TERROR” AND THE MACEDONIANS IN NOF, AFZH AND NOMS ...................................................................266 MACEDONIANS NOT MENTIONED IN WESTERN HISTORY ..................................................................................268 THE GREEK CIVIL WAR WAS A CONTROLLED WAR....269 WHO WERE THE CPG AND DAG LEADERS DURING THE GREEK CIVIL WAR ................................................................272 BIBLIOGRAPHY – MACEDONIAN AND OTHER SOURCES ....................................................................................................274 ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................279 ABOUT THE AUTHOR............................................................282 4 ARGUMENTS (1945-1949) WHO ORGANIZED THE PEDOMAZOMA (CHILD COLLECTION PROGRAM) AND COMPILED ITS HISTORY? NATIONAL HISTORY OF THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE IN GREEK OCCUPIED MACEDONIA An explanation is needed as to why 28,000 children were taken from Greek occupied Macedonia, under the guise of “saving them” during the Greek Civil War, and not allowed to return to their homes unless they declared themselves Greeks by genus? Who planned the genocide against the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia in the period from 1945 to 1949? This book will deal with the historiography of the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia. I (Stoian Kochov) dedicate this book to the fallen partisans who were forcefully and violently mobilized into the DAG military units. The child collection program, under the guise of saving the children, took away 28,000 children from their mothers and homes with no intention of ever bringing them back. They were given a one-way ticket out, and for the Macedonian children, the ultimate goal of genocide… This was a politically motivated degradation of human dignity, murderously wounding the Macedonian nation. The parents of the children who, on September 12, 1948, were fighting in a battle in Malimadi, located between the villages Dambeni and Sliveni, were deprived of the opportunity of seeing their children one last time before leaving their bones in the battlefields of Gramos and Vicho. Before dying they all fought and struggled hard with the hope that one day they would see their children again. The children, those who were brought back from the Eastern European countries to fight at the front and were all killed, fought 5 hard hoping that one day they would see their parents again. Sadly they too were deprived. One of those 28,000 children taken and brought back to fight in the battlefields for DAG was my cousin Mitre Novachkov. A few months after he was sent to an Eastern European country, to be saved from the Greek bombs, he was brought back and turned into a child soldier. His qualifications: he was tall enough to carry a rifle. Sadly he too was killed… during the last battles in the Greek Civil War… in a war which DAG was destined to lose. Here are some facts: This is what Ipsilantis, a DAG general, in a sincere confession, told Risto Kizov (son of hero Tanas Kizov) while Risto was searching for his father’s grave: “Elite Macedonian units of Macedonian fighters from (Greek occupied) Macedonia were sent to Grevena to occupy the city and put it under partisan (DAG) control. The commanders who were sent were Giorgi Kalko from the village Visheni, Tanas Kizov from the village Nered and Pando Shiperkov from the village Smrdesh. Sadly, even though they fought heroically, they were all killed. These great and heroic Macedonians paid with their lives in this fateful battle. But that was not all for the Macedonian people; they were exiled from their homes and ancestral lands…” This shows the courage and heroism demonstrated by the thousands of Macedonian fighters and heroes sent to Vicho and led by GIORGI KALKO, ATANAS GIZA (Tanas Kizov), PANDO SHIPERKOV… These are facts and evidence of our Macedonian existence and our participation in the Greek Civil War. This, without a doubt, shows that we fought as DAG fighters together and shared our fate with the communist Greeks in the bunkers and trenches in Vicho, Gramos... I was one of those fighters. And that is one reason why I have dedicated my entire life to earnestly document all possible events that took place during the Greek Civil War and tell our side of the 6 story and the genocide perpetrated against the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia. Another reason for my deep involvement in the history of the Greek Civil War is to expose the tragedy the Macedonian people endured, to a point of genocide, in silence for over seventy years with no one to speak for them… 7 INTRODUCTORY NOTES Had we gone back in time and followed the historical footsteps of our national defeat, despite the painful truth, we would have unequivocally placed the Macedonian people on the right path. Unfortunately we did not do that and have not done it for over seventy years. Not doing that proved to be very harmful to our people as was confirmed after World War II, with the Macedonians in Greek occupied Macedonia who, after Macedonia’s partition in 1913, found it difficult to survive spiritually united as one people. Our history has yet to properly record the Greek Civil War. Our people do not know, and have yet to learn about the greatest evil perpetrated against them: the seizure of 28,000 children; the tearing apart of the Macedonian home; the reshaping of the Macedonian family; and finally their genocide and eradication
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