Originally posted by Risto the Great
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Some paradoxes :
-The quality of live here is on a decent level, I don’t know what u guys from abroad think but it is not very bad, it is surely not like in Australia, Germany or USA, but people are living good. There are problems with finding jobs yes, but every body somehow menage to earn some money and go on vacation, go on shoping in Solun, pay for studiing on some of the Macedonian or foreign universities etc.
-It is thrue that we have big trade deficit, but also it’s thrue that our debt to foreign countries and organizations is shrinking (at least ontill now with this government , I hope it continues this way)
-We hade the 2001 war conflict, our soldiers won every battle, but we where forced to make peace agreement and change our constitution (which btw. was allready the most democratic in the balkans and wider). Our state recovered vary fast, in fact our institutions where functioning 100%, every body in the society was doing his job, for example Ohrid was full with tourists who knew that theare police and army will do thear job.
-Our soldiers are among the best soldiers in Irak and Afganistan, reciving medals from American comanders, while greeks who are in Nato do not participate with soldiers in the Nato missions in Irak and Afganistan
- every national and religious minority in Macedonia have every right they should have according international laws and more that that
-We have saved the Dojran lake from ecologic catastrofe, while the eu greeks on the other side wher emptiing the lake and used the wather for theare agriculture
-We have the great cross in Skopje on Vodno, build to comemorate 2000 years of christianity
-The sport life here is on very low level, very few of the kids are participating in some sport, our talents are sliping unnotised, but somehow our national handball, voleybal, basketball teams are among the first 10 in europe, our national soccer team is probably the most unpredictible team in the world, playing 1-1 in england with thear team, and the very next weak loosing from Andora 1-0 at home
-Our archeology is maybe in the centar of the world archeology in thease two years, with findings like adam from Govrlevo, Ikar from Ohrid, the golden masks, the reconstructions of the neolithic setlements in Ohrid and in Skopje, the royal macedonian tombs etc
-Despite the 100 year anti-macedonian propaganda, still people like Vasil Iljov, Petar Popovski, Donski, Markus and many others where born. I know that some of u guys don’t apreciate thear job, but I think that they deserve big credit. Afther all, they where among the first Macedonians who dared to sneak behind the 6-th century..
There are many more things to mention here. I don’t want thiss to be some kind of showing off, i know that many things are not like they should be , but I think that among the thousends of bad and pesimistic words we must not forgeth to point our achivments and say some good words about them, achivments of all Macedonians, in Macedonia and in the Diaspora
Astibo for president
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