Thank you for your comment on my Women of Ararat video,dear Bulgarian friend! ;-)

Монголу немој више да ми долазиш на канал.

Баш лепо усташки смраду, јел би било лепо да ја теби напишем да би волео да видим како Турци касапе Бугаре? Ти си срамота за бугарски народ!

I am sorry, i cant write in Bulgarian. Without lies, i understand 50% Bulgarian, just as i understand Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian...

Our enemies have been tapping into a century of oppression, denial, ommission, distortion...etc, whatever they can get their hands on in order to export the notion that we did not exist, or that we were a suspect people. This thread is about challenging some of those Western assumptions.

To give you another example of how a false representation of who the Macedonians were, has made it into the Western academic literature. Take Patrick Finney, in his essay "An Evil for all Concerned: Britain and Minority Protection", on page, 544 writes that:
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"The Slavic population of Macedonia and western Thrace clearly possessed Bulgarian national consciousness".
Clearly, they didn't ! It is these kinds of statements made by Western academics and Western politicians that continually misrepresent who we are, and misrepresent who we were, and what we called oursevles. The representations made by Greece, by Bulgaria and even Western institutions, like the League of Nations (which published false data about the Macedonians), are all false. But having said that, they have had an effect. These false representations of the Macedonians have made their way into political ciricles in the West, into academic institutions.

You tell me. You Bulgarians say that Cyril and Metody were Bulgarians. They are from Solun. Bulgaria never possessed Solun, its a fact.

Yes i won't deny you that, its the truth, but still those Macedonians feel and speak Macedonian. I won't call them traitor, just desperate people...

Ja mislim da je Makedonija Bugarska :D

България + Татарстан + Монголия = Обединена България