Why Germany has no moral right to pressure us for Skopje
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There are just as many "Macedonian" nations before
1944 as there are "Gederian" nations before 1989.
It is no longer a secret to anyone that Germany is
pressuring us to open the way of Northern Macedonia to the European Union
without fulfilling our demands regarding the reading of our common historical
past. He presses us quite rudely and clumsily.
Looking at history, Germany does not have a single gram of
moral right to demand from us that we have no claims to the brutal lies and
anti-Bulgarian hysteria in Northern Macedonia. Excuse me, but why did our
ancestors shed blood on the fields of the First World War? Wasn't it also for
the German cause? Why are they attacking the wild Serbian mountains with
unbridled courage, wasn't it to help the "fighting brothers" Germans
and Austrians? Why did they fight heroically for three years against the
600,000 Anglo-French army in the Balkans? Wasn't it also because of the German
Empire? Why did Kaiser Wilhelm II come on a day on the "Macedonian"
front to admire the courage of the Bulgarians? Why give them tons of iron
crosses? Why does this same German emperor like to dress for parades in
Bulgarian military uniform? In fact, why do we always choose to fight for
Germany? Well, because Germany has always recognized the Bulgarian character of
Macedonia. Always and unconditionally. Firmly. Without a moment's hesitation.
There is no historical school, political and military elite and in general a
whole nation that has recognized more and more clearly than the German fact
that the Macedonians are Bulgarians. That is why we twice entered the fire of
the world wars on the German side. Hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians who fell
near Doiran, Krivolak, Bitola, Tutrakan, Dobrich, Bucharest, died not only to
realize their national dream, but also because of German interests. Our
ancestors rose in deadly knife attacks against the British, French and Russians
not only for the Bulgarian but also for the German flag. Then there, in the
sticky mud of the trenches, in the fields of the fierce battles of the First
World War was born the famous Bulgarian-German fighting brotherhood, for which
between 1920 and 1944 at least 15 wagons of books were written, and not only by
Bulgarians, and mostly by Germans. Thousands of Germans fought with us in
1916-1918 in Macedonia to be part of Bulgaria. And why did we side with Germany
during World War II? Again because of Germany's position that it recognizes the
Bulgarian character of Macedonia and Thrace. We entered the Tripartite Pact not
because of Hitler's stupid mustache or his criminal racial ideas, but because
of the desire of the Bulgarian nation to be united in one state. See how the
people of Skopje welcomed the Bulgarian troops in 1941 and then talk to me
about the "Macedonian nation" and the "Macedonian
language". See them in the German chronicles. They are greeted as
liberators from the Serbian yoke. They are greeted not as brothers but as
compatriots. Even today, Germany, which has always encouraged us to defend the
Bulgarian character of Macedonia, "washes its hands" in a basin of
not very clear "European values" and makes us compromise. In what
German eyes did Greece have more right to defend its history than we did? It
seems that in order for Germany to support you today, you must have fought it
at least twice in the past. Sorry, but this is a historical perversion. In
fact, is there a more primordial right than the right of a people to want to
live together? Have we, the Bulgarians, ever challenged Germany's right to
unification? Didn't a large part of the Bulgarian intelligentsia and people
sympathize with the German aspiration for unity even during the time of
totalitarianism? Wasn't "German" taught in our schools? In how many
other countries in the world could German be taught in the official public
school? Didn't even the People's Republic of Bulgaria of Todor Zhivkov befriend
the German Federal Republic of Willy Brandt and Dietrich Genscher the most?
Weren't we happy when the wall fell and Germany reunited? Did any of us then
say that there was a "Gedera nation", a "Gedera language"
or some "East German" identity? In fact, how did the Germans from the
former GDR enter the EU? In the most natural way - they just reunited with
their motherland. If Macedonia wanted the EU so badly, it could do so in the
most natural way, uniting with its motherland, Bulgaria. Just like the Germans
did.
And now that our only claim to the northern Macedonians is
simply to recognize their Bulgarian roots and history until 1944, Germany to
"press" us for compromises is an expression of total historical
ingratitude. Why if Soviet communism erected a concrete wall between the East
and West Germans, then the Yugoslav Communists erected a wall of corpses
between us and the Bulgarians in Macedonia. A wall whose mortar is from the
blood and bones of the tens of thousands of Bulgarians shot and literally
slaughtered by Tito's red gangs. If we paraphrase a famous slogan, we would
exclaim: Germanio, come to your senses! “
Macedonian ”nation before 1944 there was just as much as
there was a “Gederian” nation or an “East German language” before 1989. The
German pressure on Bulgaria was a betrayal not only of Bulgarian but also of
German history. If the Germans are partly ashamed of their history, we are not
ashamed of our own. Let them not kill their historical complexes and wines at
our expense.
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