National Geographic (1917) - I am not a Bulgar, nor a Serb, I am Macedonian only

[Istor the Macedonian]

"Neither Bulgar nor Serb, said defiantly one such OLD woman, defiantly, when
we left the Monastir road at Dobraveni (today Dobroeni - ed). I am
MACEDONIAN only and I am sick of war."
An excerpt from an article of National Geographic from May 1917, titled On
the Monastir Road (page 388).
Another nail in coffin with the "bulgar"/"black athenian" anti-macedonian
propaganda LIES (Macedonians did not exist prior to 1945)

Then she is SlavoSkopian.

Macedonians are easily distinguished from Bulgarians: Thessaloniki.

[Istor the Macedonian]

On 22 Σεπτ, 14:29, "stephan.nikolov" <***@pri.abv.bg> wrote:
..................................................The government will
not be slow in

taking the necessary measures. The Greeks say that Bulgarian bands are
committing atrocities. It is indeed atrocious to kill a man unlawfully, but
bands from Greece have committed far greater atrocities. ...............

Stephan, to not infuriate us!

Greece was sleeping when Bulgarians were attacking Greeks in
Macedonia, until 1903.
Aeisixtir!

[stephan.nikolov]

"Istor the Macedonian" <***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ed5c007c-3ba6-41c1-8b39-***@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On 22 Σεπτ, 14:29, "stephan.nikolov" <***@pri.abv.bg> wrote:
..................................................The government will
not be slow in

taking the necessary measures. The Greeks say that Bulgarian bands are
committing atrocities. It is indeed atrocious to kill a man unlawfully, but
bands from Greece have committed far greater atrocities. ...............
Stephan, to not infuriate us!

It was not my intention.

Greece was sleeping when Bulgarians were attacking Greeks in
Macedonia, until 1903.

Not true.

Aeisixtir!

le le le le le.

[Istor the Macedonian]

Post by Istor the Macedonian
..................................................The government will
not be slow in

taking the necessary measures. The Greeks say that Bulgarian bands are
committing atrocities. It is indeed atrocious to kill a man unlawfully, but
bands from Greece have committed far greater atrocities. ...............
Stephan, to not infuriate us!

It was not my intention.

Yes, it was. You could erase some anti-Greek paragraphs of that
speech.

Post by Istor the Macedonian

Greece was sleeping when Bulgarians were attacking Greeks in
Macedonia, until 1903.

Not true.

Not not true.
At 1897 Greece had lost a war against Ottoman Empire and couldn't help
Macedonians openly. But after Ilinden uprising she couldn't stay
inactive any more.

Post by Istor the Macedonian

Aeisixtir!

le le le le le.

agree!! :)

[gogu]

Post by Istor the Macedonian

Post by stephan.nikolov

Post by Istor the Macedonian
Greece was sleeping when Bulgarians were attacking Greeks in
Macedonia, until 1903.

Not true.

Not not true.
At 1897 Greece had lost a war against Ottoman Empire and couldn't help
Macedonians openly.

I am afraid I'll agree with Istor here...
After a lost war, Greece was not powerful at all at the turning of the
century, Bulgaria OTOH had the most powerful army in the region.

[stephan.nikolov]

Post by gogu

Post by Istor the Macedonian

Post by stephan.nikolov

Post by Istor the Macedonian
Greece was sleeping when Bulgarians were attacking Greeks in
Macedonia, until 1903.

Not true.

Not not true.
At 1897 Greece had lost a war against Ottoman Empire and couldn't help
Macedonians openly.

I am afraid I'll agree with Istor here...
After a lost war, Greece was not powerful at all at the turning of the
century, Bulgaria OTOH had the most powerful army in the region.

Well it is a matter of prospective how one udenstands "was sleeping".
And the key word in Istor's reply is "openly".
If we follow your treatment of terms, Bulgaria "could help openly" only
after the beginning of the Balkan war (and even then "open action"
was quite limited for the Bulgarian forces were preoccupied in Thrace).
I believe the discussion on Karavangelis had demonstrated some of the
means of the Greek government acting in Macedonia. Quite similar was
the situation as regards Bulgaria - involvement was only in the form of
providing arms and money and again money was exteremely rarely given
by the state but was collected from the population in both the principality
(later the kingdom) and the land.