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Originally Posted by dime
thats wrong
they didnt leave until after the civil war
theres still a large population of macedonians but they are assimilated
its true a lot did leave greece after the civil war but the ones who stayed were moved to diferent parts of the country to be assimilated faster also everthing that was writen in kirilica(graves, icons in churces etc) was destroyed and writen in greek Peoples names were changed and there werent allowed to speak macedonian at home.
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That's bull shit.
- There is no large indigenous Slavic population in Greece.
- Greece did not have an assimilationist polciies, those Slavs fled as the Bulgarian retreated in the 2nd balkan war, WWI and WWII.
- Furthermore, the fact that Greece allowed the operation of Slavic language schools (affirmed by an agreement between Serbia/Yugoslavia and Greece) shows that Greece was not assimilating them.
- Furthermore, even though Greece did not have an assimilationist policies the Greek population increased largely in Macedonia because many Greek refugees settled their.
- Furthermore, after WWII there were virtually no Slavs their because they were expelled not by Greeks but by Communist supported by Yugoslabia. Those expelled were used by Yugoslavs to help build up the claim of a "Slavic-Macedonian" nation.
- Also. Do you know how desperate the communists were to create such a nation. They killed thoyusands of people in FYROM who exposed a Vlach, Serb, Greek or Bulgarian view. not only that but even worse they kidnapped children from Greek families to indoctrinate them into Slavic Macedonianism.
- There wwere no expulsions of Slavs from Macedonia to other parts of Greece. Foreign presence after WWI and WWII shows this. The only expulsions were done by communists supported by Tito's partisans, since most Slavs who fled as Bulgarians withdrew were Bulgarians fearing Greek reprisals.
- The fact that the slavophone greek sppech has always been recognized in Greece proves there were no assimilationist policies. They could freely speek their language. Plus, how would Greece make sure which language people spoke at home?
- Thats a lie. If you go to old gravesites in Thessaloniki or anywhere in Greece's Macedonia you can see cyrillic. And why would Greeks destroy Cyrillic when cyrillic is largely based on the Greek alphabet. And there is no reason for Greeks to destroy icons, which only the communists did.