Mr. Kiro Gligorov confirmed twice that they are not related to the ancient Macedonians: -1-[We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians.] (from the Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35.)-2-[We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians no longer exist, they had disappeared from history long time ago. Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century (A.D)] (from the Toronto Star newspaper, March 15, 1992).
Why are we ashamed and flee from the truth that whole positive Macedonian revolutionary tradition comes exactly from exarchist part of Macedonian people? We shall not say a new truth if we mention the fact that everyone , Gotse Delchev , Dame Gruev , Gjorche Petrov , Pere Toshev - must I list and count all of them - were teachers of the BULGARIAN Exarchate in Macedonia!" Georgievski in his book "С лице към истината" (Facing the truth) Mr Georgievski is the ex-president of FYROM and the Fyromian VMRO...!!!
Ivan Vazov "Macedonian writer and poet" write the poem "I am Bulgarian"...!!!
Krste Misirkov (The father of ''Makedonism'') : "We are Bulgarians more than the Bulgarians in Bulgaria! The population of Skopje is pure Bulgarian
Macedonia History Quotes: Polybius, Book IX, 34, 3
"...he (Alexander) inflicted punishment on the Persians for their outrages on all the Greeks, and how he delivered us all from the greatest evils by enslaving the barbarians and depriving them of the resources they used for the destruction of the Greeks, pitting now the Athenians and now the Thebans against the ancestors of these Spartans, how in a word he made Asia subject to Greece."
Alexander came by the statue of his father and spoke loud: `Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for AS Hellenes WE should not be slaves to barbarians.
Even though Xerxes had a huge host with him, he was a barbarian and was defeated by the prudence of the Hellenes; whereas Alexander the Hellene has already engaged in 13 battles and has not been defeated once.
And, now, is justly the barbarian praised by the Athenians for capturing Hellenes? As for Alexander who is a Hellene and captured Hellenes, not only did he not imprison his opponents, but enlisted them and made them his allies instead of enemies...No king of the Hellenes had ever conquered Egypt with the exception only of Alexander, and that he did without war...
...so said the military leaders to the camps: `We have made enough war in Persia and conquered Dareios who claimed taxes from the Hellenes, but what are we accomplishing by marching against the Indians, in scary lands and doing things IMPROPER FROM HELLAS? If Alexandros has become full of himself and wishes to be a warrior, and subjugate barbarian peoples why do we follow him? Let him move on alone and engage in wars. Having heard these Alexander separated the Persian host from the MACEDONIANS AND THE OTHER HELLENES and addressed them...
"Ο πατριωτισμος ειναι εμφυτος στον ανθρωπο και γω ειμαι εθνικιστης."
