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Originally Posted by Kan Yuvigi Asparukh
1) Greeks, Serbs and Bulgarians all say the same things about Macedonia. These vile Balkan imperialists created a world conspiracy against Macedonians.
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I would not say that the three are telling the same things.
Bulgarians do not object to the name Macedonia. They just deny the existance of a Macedonian nation, claim that Macedonians are Bulgarians and that Macedonia (ie. FYROM) is another Bulgarian state (something like Serbia-Montenegro, Germany-Austria, Romania-Moldova, Greece-Cyprus etc).
Greeks on the other hand strongly object to the very usage of the name Macedonia on the part of what they call
Skopians, deeming the name as the exclusive part of their own heritage and
Skopians as usurpers thereof (Dimokratia twn Skopiwn etc).
For Serbs it is just southern Serbia (
južna Srbija), part of the medieval Dušan's empire, which they conquered in the Balkan Wars (1912-1923), but was afterwards stripped from them.
Not the same things, really, the picture is quite complex.