1 Seriously, it’s becoming banal to still speak about Bulgaria. Just like Prime Minister Zoran Zaev finds it banal to answer questions about the modular hospitals, that is, as further explained by his cabinet, to answer if there’s anyone who would succeed him in the party.
I don’t know why Zaev raised the Bulgarian topic with the proposal to delete the word “Bulgarian” in the term “Bulgarian fascist occupier” on the monuments to the victims during the fascist occupation in World War II. Unless he wanted to use this banalization of our anti-fascist struggle to divert our attention from the “banal” question of political responsibility in the case of the tragic fire in the Tetovo Covid-centre.
Does Zaev really not distinguish between the government of the then Bulgarian fascist occupiers and the Bulgarian people when he insists that not all Bulgarians were fascists? Apparently, it’s not nice to ascribe an ethnic character to fascism, because even among us there were collaborators of the occupiers. Yes, sure. But our fascists were individuals, whereas the Bulgarian fascists were an organized state.
I’ve never even thought that all Bulgarians were fascists. And not all Bulgarians came to occupy Macedonia in 1941. But we don’t judge the ethnicity. We judge the then Bulgarian state. That state had a king who had a photo taken with Hitler, a prime minister who was a sympathizer of the Nazis and the government which was fascists, had an army that occupied Macedonia and had an administration that introduced a fascist regime here. That army and that administration committed atrocities here. And those atrocities are sung about in songs, written about in literature and immortalized in monuments.
And now Zaev wants to change history textbooks with a government decree. Will he walk around cemeteries and erase the inscriptions? Is that the job of the prime minister? Who is he even talking to about that now when the Bulgarians don’t have a political government, and are to elect their president in November? What good is it for Macedonia when Zaev makes those statements? Are we to make excuses for Bulgarians about why they came here to kill us? Since they can’t come to terms with their role in World War II, so now we have to solve their pathological problems, just to start the accession talks with the EU.
If there’s one thing that unites this society, something that we’re proud of and something everyone agrees on, that’s anti-fascism – that we were on the right side in World War II. And now, as if aren’t divided along all sorts of lines, we should be divided along this one as well – to erase or not to erase the inscriptions on the monuments of the National Liberation War.
The way Zaev has started to care more about how Bulgarians feel, than how we feel, it will turn out that they hadn’t come here to occupy us, but to free us from our domestic Fascist sympathizers.
2 Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is going on and on about the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership and the rights of 120,000 Macedonian citizens who got Bulgarian passports and are now EU citizens. Well, just great.
Was it according to the Copenhagen criteria when Macedonian citizens were asked for a bribe from 500 to 1,000 euros for a Bulgarian passport? Is it according to the Copenhagen criteria that they haven’t started the trial against the employees of the State agency for Bulgarians Abroad who took bribes to issue Bulgarian passports to foreigners? Two of them have already been blacklisted by the US. Is it according to the Copenhagen criteria that a utility pole near Blagoevgrad is registered as the residence address of thousands of Macedonians with a Bulgarian passport?
Is it according to the Copenhagen criteria that Bulgaria is abusing its EU membership to issue passports to people whose only wish is a better standard of living, so they have to look for a job in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands… Since Bulgaria is blocking our European future and Macedonian citizens aren’t allowed to study and work in Western Europe with their Macedonian passports. That doesn’t mean all Bulgarians are bad. Not all Bulgarians wish Macedonia harm. The progress of Macedonians towards a better life is blocked by their, this, the current, modern European state of Bulgaria on their behalf. And that will someday go down in history.
Macedonians with dual citizenship who have a Bulgarian passport couldn’t care less about Bulgaria. For sure there are more Macedonians with a Bulgarian passport living in Copenhagen than in Sofia, if not in all of Bulgaria.
3 Citizens are in a position to earn a lot and hide the money they’ve earned from the state. The Government is mismatched with such thieving people! That’s why it must pass a law that will confiscate the property of all those who won’t be able to prove where they get 30,000 euros a year. This is in the context of their campaign “We’re great, but the citizens proved horrible.” Citizens give bribes, citizens evade taxes, citizens go to the hospital too late and die, citizens pollute the streets, citizens park illegally, citizens build without a permit…
Let’s see if anyone would dare to ask a resident of Zajas for the origin of the money he used to build those big houses along the road, which remain closed. Who would take away the Bentley of the one from Arachinovo who was driving in circles around the Christmas tree in Skopje square? The poor guy didn’t even have a bank account.
They can’t confiscate the property of convicted thugs, so now they have to moralize that they’re fighting against corruption and crime. Local party overlords start controlling entire towns once they come to power – from pubs to companies and the media. But in order to prove that there isn’t selective justice, the government can and will confiscate someone’s property so they could brag that the law applies to everyone. Since the citizens are the ones who are corrupt, not all those who hold public office.
4 VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski had another meeting with the prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban.
In the past, former members of VMRO used to go church before a battle to pray for good luck. Now they go to Orban. Going to Budapest is a sort of a booster doze before the elections.
Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski
