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I accidentally came across this image today.
An image that perfectly illustrates what Macedonians mean when we say we were forced into participating in fratricidal wars against each other.
I don't know if this was posted before,the mods can delete this thread if it was.
It's an image of a grave of a certain Petko Liskovski (1882-1970) who,as the inscription suggests, served as a Turkish soldier from 1910 to 1912, then as a Serbian soldier from 1914 to 1915, and eventually as a Bulgarian soldier from 1916 to 1918.
This is one of many examples of how Macedonians were used instead of the native soldiers whenever a country would occupy Macedonia (my own great-grandfather served first as a Bulgarian soldier and later when Vardarska Macedonia was given to Serbia after the Balkan wars as a Serbian soldier too, because the new authorities didn't recognize his previous army service).
Considering the time period when Petko served as a soldier (the period of the 2 Balkan wars and WWI) I can conclude that without a doubt he was dispatched in combat and fought fellow Macedonians dispatched by the other side,since drafting Macedonians according to needs was a common thing back then.
This is the tragic story of the Macedonians in a nutshell - forcefully fighting for other interests instead of their own...
An image that perfectly illustrates what Macedonians mean when we say we were forced into participating in fratricidal wars against each other.
I don't know if this was posted before,the mods can delete this thread if it was.
It's an image of a grave of a certain Petko Liskovski (1882-1970) who,as the inscription suggests, served as a Turkish soldier from 1910 to 1912, then as a Serbian soldier from 1914 to 1915, and eventually as a Bulgarian soldier from 1916 to 1918.
This is one of many examples of how Macedonians were used instead of the native soldiers whenever a country would occupy Macedonia (my own great-grandfather served first as a Bulgarian soldier and later when Vardarska Macedonia was given to Serbia after the Balkan wars as a Serbian soldier too, because the new authorities didn't recognize his previous army service).
Considering the time period when Petko served as a soldier (the period of the 2 Balkan wars and WWI) I can conclude that without a doubt he was dispatched in combat and fought fellow Macedonians dispatched by the other side,since drafting Macedonians according to needs was a common thing back then.
This is the tragic story of the Macedonians in a nutshell - forcefully fighting for other interests instead of their own...