This topic was unintentionally touched by our former bulgarophil member who is now gone after the swift reaction of the admins (amen to that).As you all probably know a decision for renaming some of the streets in the republic passed a couple of days or so ago in our parliament.I would like to know your thoughts on this matter.
I'll go first (
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In my hometown of Stip there are streets named John Kennedy,Ho Chi Min,5th Congress (of KPY of course),Karl Marx,Engelsova (after Friedrich Engels ),Leninova,boulevard YNA etc.I think these streets SHOULD be renamed.After all,what did Kennedy,Marx,Engels or the Vietnamese guy ever do for Macedonia?They don't deserve our streets to be named after them.And all the party congresses are completely unnecessary too.So,thumbs up for that.
However,I really disagree with renaming the streets baring the names of the national heroes of WWII just because they were partisans (and subsequently commies).Those people FOUGHT for the liberation of Macedonia from the Bulgarian/German/Albanian fascists and I think they deserve recognition for that.Also,I know the feelings of some members about Josip Broz (him being a commie and oppressor and locking up the Macedonian "separatists" and all that) ,but I'd like to stress out that he was the only Yugoslav politician that recognized the separate identity,language and culture of our people (even codifying the Macedonian alphabet and standardizing the Macedonian language)and by allowing the forming of PR (later SR) Macedonia within Yugoslavia he actually laid the foundation of the September 8th 1991 event for our people and therefore is an important character in our history.
There are many people,organizations etc. that deserve to have a street named after them.For Stip specifically,Kiro Gligorov (yes,he's the guy to blame for the FYROM reference and all the "we are Slavs" BS,but have in mind he was the first ever president of independent Macedonia and comes from Stip) is one of them,also Nikola Kljusev (yes,a DPMNE member and follower,but the first ever prime minister of independent Macedonia,also from Stip),even the poor 5-6 members of the army/police forces that were killed during the 2001 conflict should get the street that they lived on at least to be named after them.Maybe even the old names of Stip (Estipeon,Astibo) are a good example too.
What are YOUR thoughts about the new street names?
I'll go first (

In my hometown of Stip there are streets named John Kennedy,Ho Chi Min,5th Congress (of KPY of course),Karl Marx,Engelsova (after Friedrich Engels ),Leninova,boulevard YNA etc.I think these streets SHOULD be renamed.After all,what did Kennedy,Marx,Engels or the Vietnamese guy ever do for Macedonia?They don't deserve our streets to be named after them.And all the party congresses are completely unnecessary too.So,thumbs up for that.
However,I really disagree with renaming the streets baring the names of the national heroes of WWII just because they were partisans (and subsequently commies).Those people FOUGHT for the liberation of Macedonia from the Bulgarian/German/Albanian fascists and I think they deserve recognition for that.Also,I know the feelings of some members about Josip Broz (him being a commie and oppressor and locking up the Macedonian "separatists" and all that) ,but I'd like to stress out that he was the only Yugoslav politician that recognized the separate identity,language and culture of our people (even codifying the Macedonian alphabet and standardizing the Macedonian language)and by allowing the forming of PR (later SR) Macedonia within Yugoslavia he actually laid the foundation of the September 8th 1991 event for our people and therefore is an important character in our history.
There are many people,organizations etc. that deserve to have a street named after them.For Stip specifically,Kiro Gligorov (yes,he's the guy to blame for the FYROM reference and all the "we are Slavs" BS,but have in mind he was the first ever president of independent Macedonia and comes from Stip) is one of them,also Nikola Kljusev (yes,a DPMNE member and follower,but the first ever prime minister of independent Macedonia,also from Stip),even the poor 5-6 members of the army/police forces that were killed during the 2001 conflict should get the street that they lived on at least to be named after them.Maybe even the old names of Stip (Estipeon,Astibo) are a good example too.
What are YOUR thoughts about the new street names?
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