Macedonian Patriotic Organization of the Bulgarians -- USA 1

MPO -- Macedonian Patriotic Organization of the Bulgarian emigrants in the United States Canada Australia USA 01

Bulgarian emigrants moved to North America in the last decades of the 19th century. By the end of World War II their number amounted to about 100,000 [1]. The largest Bulgarian colonies were established in the east and northeast states of the United States and Southern Canada -- mainly in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Indianapolis, Akron, Fort Wayne, Lorain, Youngstown, St. Louis, Stilton Gerry, Madison, Granite City, Springfield, Lackawanna, and in South Australia. For a century the Bulgarians managed to stabilize their economic positions and form different political, educational and cultural organizations, which played an important role for the immigration's establishment in the New World. They also had an impact upon the progress in cultural relations between the Bulgarian nation and the American, Canadian and Australian peoples. The following survey has the purpose of clarifying the issues on the formation, major stages and aims in the activities of one of the most interesting and active emigrant organizations -- the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in the United States, Canada and Australia (MPO)**. It incorporated mainly Bulgarians from Macedonia who had moved to the States, Canada and Australia [2]. The Macedonian Patriotic Organization uncompromisingly protected the historical truth of Macedonia's Bulgarian ethnic character. It fought for its freedom by exposing the false ideas of "Macedonianism", which aimed to "prove" the existence of a separate "Macedonian nation" on the basis of anti-Bulgarian feelings.

At the same time emigrants in free Bulgaria had managed to overcome their desperate feelings after World War I [18]. The Bulgarian national liberation movement in Vardar and Aegean Macedonia [19] became more active. In this situation of the beginning of 1922 the Bulgarian emigrants in North America clarified their specific aims to fulfil in the common fight for rejecting the unjust peace treaty after the War. The evolution in ideas finally resulted in the foundation of a Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Its activities enriched the historical tradition of the Macedonian liberation movement, which Bulgarians in North America had created for the last decades.

The formation of a Macedonian Patriotic Organization began with the foundation of local groups in large immigrant centers first in the States and Canada. On November 6, 1921 the Bulgarian colony members in Stilton, Pennsylvania summoned a meeting and founded the "Prilep" [20] Macedonian Brotherhood. Thirty people enlisted in the organization. On November 20 they elected the first leaders of the organization. They had the purpose of "contacting by letters all Macedonian patriotic organizations in America, as well as the Executive Committee of Macedonian Brotherhoods in Bulgaria [21], in order to prepare and organize a common congress of emigrants in North America." On November 21 in Fort Wayne, Indiana the first Macedonian political organization called "Kostur" [22] was founded.
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[VMOPO]

So, in 1922, their delegates met in Fort Wayne, Ind., and charted a framework within which to build the firm structure of the new organization. At the first Convention considerable attention was given to find an appropriate name for the newly formed organization. The proposal for Macedonian Patriotic Organizations was rejected because after the defeat of the Central Powers in the World War I, the word "patriot" had assumed a repulsive meaning.

[dnlxl]

2:39 - 2:42

[uoitofsogroj]

these people are all Bulgarians

[perenikoloski]

Тирани, чудо ще направимъ,

Ний чуждо иго не търпимъ,

Съ юнашка кръвъ ще ви удавимъ,

И пакъ ще се освободимъ!

[pandev992]

што уште не ќе измислите..бугари србомани гркомани титовисти...хахахха друже сакам докази не навреди.. најлесно е да кажеш нешто али иди докажи го тоа... Македонски бугари цццц ххахахахахахахха идете уби те се!!!

[mctisi]

От комента ти става ясно за сите кой е простака тук! Яничар!

[mctisi]

Така е!Вие не сте Българи като нас!Вие сте яничари! Тези от филма са големи Българи!Македонски Българи!

[mctisi]

А защо на гърдите сите носат българското знаме? Защото са Македонски Българи,а не яничари като тебе!

[mctisi]

Македнец-регионален поим,не етнически!Това са македонски българи и сите носат българското знаме!

Сърбин или яничар си?

[pandev992]

hahah i think that you jumped elementary school or had some brain injure and forgott to Read!!!

Macedonia to the Macedonians..

What will we do with the story that tito created macedonia?!?! stupid hopelss tatars....

[dimitardanailov]

Why the transparents are Macedonia for the Macedonians and not Macedonia for the Bulgarians, if you claim theese people are Bulgars! Because they are not! They are Macedonians!

MACEDONIA FOR THE MACEDONIANS!

[dimitardanailov]

Samo da ve prasam nesto? Kade vo vedeovo vidovte nekade deka pisuva Bugari, Bugarija ili nesto slicno, koga pisuva samo Makedonija, Makedonci...

Vie ste edna nistozna nacija bez istorija, bez nacionalen identitet, vie ste sram za evropa, se sto znaete e da kradete od Makedoncite i Makedonskata istorija. Katastrofa ste!