Though it is monstrous for a country to forcefully change the name of another, the five parties leaderships make this demand upon the neighboring country so as to push it into neo-Hitler Russia’s clutches
Almost the entire population of our country believes that we must force another country to change its name. This relative unanimity seems to many as a proof that this demand is fair.
However, in the cases of national disputes, the national unanimity has nothing to do with right or wrong. Especially at the present era of the all-powerful “national” TV and the much weaker internationalist left, the national unanimity in the wrong is quite easy. For instance: Almost every Albanian believes that Kosovo was right to secede from Serbia. Besides, though all Serbs consider this partition as wrong, they almost unanimously believe that their country was right to partition another country, Bosnia, by perpetrating ethnic-cleansing.
In such cases, one can discover who is right and who is wrong only by relying on the democratic principles touching inter-state relations, principles clearly established after the painful experience of the 2nd world anti-fascist war. The most fundamental of these principles is the respect for territorial integrity and state sovereignty of every country. Serbia, Albania, and Greece have violated that principle by denying the states having formed the federal Yugoslavia the right of dissociation from her, as well as of total state sovereignty and territorial integrity of each one of them. This right was achieved by the peoples and nations of Yugoslavia that resisted Hitler’s occupation and the trans-national massacre it had incited. The state borders between them were drawn according to this anti-fascist and voluntary rationale.
Serbia was the first one to deny the independence of Republic of Bosnia-Erzegovina and de facto partitioned her by perpetrating ethnic-cleansing of Hitler’s type. At the same time, Greece denied Republic of Macedonia the right to use her state name she already had for half a century, and her population the right to nationally determine itself as Macedonians, as all the other peoples of Yugoslavia had accepted. In the third place, Albania, having this aim for a long time, incited and achieved the partition of Serbia, encouraged by the relative success of the revisional policy of Serbia and Greece. All these three countries evoked historical arguments from other times in order to deny the democratic settlements that arose from the world anti-fascist war, and against it. These were the first revisions of the post-war European political map, and this explains why in all three countries it is the most fascist forces that have played a leading part in them.
The question is why did all Greek parties suddenly decide to change the name of the neighboring country, and why do they continue to insist after nearly the whole planet has accepted it? They claim that if they don’t change it, then the whoever expansionists of that country will some day be able to take Salonica. Apart from the ridiculousness of this claim – that a very small and weak country is capable of extracting the second capital city of a much larger and stronger one – no expansionist policy in history was ever prevented by the names of the victims of that policy. Besides, our neighboring country has practically presented no territorial claim against Greece, not even when she was backed by the much stronger Yugoslavia of Tito, who was wrongly accused of having named that country after her current name for expansionst purposes.
Here is the biggest proof that the five parties don’t believe what they say: while they almost unanimously decided, 15 years ago, that only if they removed the term Macedonia from the neighboring country we could be safe and wouldn’t lose our soul, now they tell us, again almost unanimously, that we could preserve both security and soul provided a geographical term is set before the name Macedonia.
The reason why the 5 leaderships constantly change the name they want to impose, is that they always seek for a pretext for preventing the neighboring country to unite with the West, that is with the EU and NATO. In the long run, they want to make her refuse her state unity so that the Albanian chauvinism be able to partition her, and the rest part be absorbed as slavonic and orhtodox by social-imperialist Russia. This happens because the leaders of all five parliamentary parties in Greece are servants of Putin’s Russia. Of course Russia makes her Greek friends play the bad guys while she herself plays the “good” one by recognizing that country with its name, though for reasons mentioned above she doesn’t recognize her national status. So that’s why for half a century the name Macedonia of the neighboring country hadn’t annoyed the Greek pro-Western governments. That’s why they conceal such facts as, for example, that Pavlos Melas recognized a Macedonian language, or that an official alphabet book of the Macedonian language was issued during El. Venizelos’ leadership, or that the old true Communist Party of Greece recognized the existence of the Macedonian nation contrary to the modern pro-Russian pseudoCPG. That’s why our “patriots” make a lot of fuss and raise a veto only when the EU and USA are about to incorporate the neighboring country into their structures, while they didn’t utter a word when Russia and her ally China first recognized the neighboring country with her name. Finally, that’s why though they had accepted the interim agreement, which enabled the Republic of Macedonia to enter international organizations with the name of FYROM, they now refuse to abide by this agreement. The FYROM name is proper for them before the UN but not before NATO and EU!
In fact, all their supposed patriotism is merely subservience. That’s why although they sided with Serbia in the case of Bosnia’s genocidal partition incited by Russia, they are now against the Albanian-incited secession of Kosovo, that is backed by the American imperialism. (Nevertheless, it was the Russian imperialism that backed it first through the Albanian chauvinists and its friendly Clinton presidency).
The OAKKE calls upon every democratic person, every friend of peace, every true patriot to hold an anti-imperialist stance of principles at all fronts of the big disputes that flare up in the Balkan region. Especially it calls them to soberly study the details of the “war for the name” and to consciously resist the provocative policy of the five political leaderships, that wish to make not only the neighboring country but also Greece itself to break off with the European democratic path, so as to chain it to the biggest modern fascism feverishly preparing to butcher the whole planet.
Athens, 6/3/2008
POSTER OF OAKKE FOR THE DISPUTE OF THE NAME BETWEEN GREECE AND THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA ISSUED IN ATHENS,
MARCH 6, 2008
