On my many visits to Bitola I have driven past the well kept French graves though sadly there are no monuments to the many Macedonians who were conscripted into the Bulgarian and Serbian armies and died on the Macedonian front during WWI. I've read that something like %10 or %20 of the 85000 Bulgarian military deaths were Macedonians and unknown number of Macedonians perished in the Serbian army + civilians.
Macedonians glorify WWII though very little is mentioned or known about the tremendous suffering of the Macedonians in WWI.
Why don't we have any monuments, museums or any other statistics dedicated to this national tragedy? I remember thinking to myself look at these young French sons who came and died in Macedonia though at least they have a tombstone.. our sons lay buried somewhere in the planina in unmarked graves.
Macedonians glorify WWII though very little is mentioned or known about the tremendous suffering of the Macedonians in WWI.
Why don't we have any monuments, museums or any other statistics dedicated to this national tragedy? I remember thinking to myself look at these young French sons who came and died in Macedonia though at least they have a tombstone.. our sons lay buried somewhere in the planina in unmarked graves.
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