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Originally Posted by Superstar
I have a question for you though. You claim that Tito gave us a language and an identity in the 1940's. If that's the case then how come, many western Bulgarians, eastern Albanians and northern Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians and speak our dialect? Those people were never influenced by Tito's brainwashing, so why do many think they are Macedonian?
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Bulgarians who lived in that area identified themselves as Macedonians long before Tito. It was considered a sub-ethnos, just like some people from, say, Ludogorieto may consider themselves Ludogorian Bulgarians.
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Originally Posted by Superstar
And are you seriously trying to tell me that over time, Bulgarians replaced every single trace of ancient Macedonian DNA in all of Macedonia? Are you claiming that Greeks have a right to claim links to ancient Greeks because they actual descendants while every single Macedonian somehow disappeared off the face of the Earth?
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I'm pretty sure that noone ever claimed that. Rather the contrary.