Fighting the Turk in the Balkans/The Death of Dame Gruev

[The LION will ROAR]

Посвета од приврзаници на национално-револуционерното движење на македонскиот народ за Даме Груев (1950)
Dedication of supporters of national-revolutionary movement of the Macedonian people for Dame Gruev (1950)

[momce]

My goodness the hardness of these men!
"The mouth of a Greek dog, child of the devil, as are all Greeks" .... interesting assessment of Greeks of the time.

There is another nice one a Macedonian mother tells her son to take this bread and run to the mountains before they turn you into a greek

[momce]

yes thats true..the pics are interesting what is the style of house there they look like vlach style konaki

[George S.]

We should learn from the past as greeks betrayed us to the turks for money etc.Also betrayal by our own peoplerepeats itself throught history.

[momce]

this is so ridiculous no one in our village or area calls themselves bulgarians we refer to ourselves as nashi or brachtcko which is highly clanish..these are like people who know nothing about us

[George S.]

TM that's a nice photo.In the old days there was heavy duty propaganda going on by both Bulgarian & Greece & other enemeies of Macedonia.People were spied upon & handed over for money to the turks.

[TrueMacedonian]

This is a nice blowup of the first pic.

[TrueMacedonian]

Exactly RTG. First Goce Delchev was betrayed by a "greek spy", then according to Smith's book Gruev was betrayed by a "greek shepherd" or a Vlach who spoke romaika, and Spase's village was betrayed by the "greeks" as well. I guess we should learn from our history and keep this in mind.

[Risto the Great]

My goodness the hardness of these men!
"The mouth of a Greek dog, child of the devil, as are all Greeks" .... interesting assessment of Greeks of the time.

[Daskalot]

Very interesting find TM, this clearly shows of the ignorance of the Westerners when they visited Macedonia.

[TrueMacedonian]

Thanks guys. Here's another interesting story of another Macedonian;

page 56

[Risto the Great]

It means Europe is still asleep.

Nice stuff TM.

[George S.]

THe photos are really good & the book offers a surprise as to why Macedonians were known as Bulgarian.The enemies of Macedonia will do anything even to try to confuse people's identity.They will say that your not a real Macedonian but a Bulgarian.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Well presented TM, an interesting text.

[TrueMacedonian]

These assumptions that we are 'Bulgars' or 'Slavs' or 'Greeks' etc have found their way into the literature through the colonial propaganda of our occupiers.

True. Which is why topics like this one - http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum...read.php?t=835

are extremely valuable to every Macedonian who wants to learn why it is and why it was that Macedonians were called "bulgar" and why they sometimes called themselves "bulgars". This is where people from Macedonia's past like Misirkov come into play.