The US Department of State about Fascist state Greece:"the government does not recogn

litwin · Apr 23, 2014

The US Department of State about Fascist state Greece:"the government does not recognize the existence of the Slav dialect called 'Macedonian', time for Russian pan- Slavic military action? and Salonika is much better place for Russian fleet then Sevastopol...

The US Department of State says in its report on Greece that "the government does not recognize the existence of the Slav dialect called 'Macedonian' spoken by the population in north-western part of the country. A small number of those speaking a Slav dialect identify themselves as Macedonian, which is strongly opposed by other citizens."

The report says that the Greek government refuses the demands of the "Slav groups" to be allowed to identify themselves as Macedonians because as many as 2.2 million Greek citizens from the north of the country ethnically identify as Macedonians.

Washington reminds of the report of the independent expert on minorities of the United Nations of 2009, which recommends the Greek government to allow the use of the words "Macedonian" and "Turkish" for identifying ethnic identities. The citizens that feel as Macedonians speak of discrimination and cruel treatment. The State Department also says that representatives of the minority have been training, in vain though, since 1990 to register the organization "House of the Macedonian Culture" in Lerin (Florina), Utrinski vesnik reports.

In order to explain the oppression on the minorities by the Greek government, the State Department says that Athens refers to ethnic Turks, Pomaks (Slavs professing Islam) and Roma as "Muslim minority" and statistically recognizes a number of 150,000. They live mostly in Thrace, the northeast part of Greece. The state bans the use of the terms "Turk" and "Turkish" in names of organizations although citizens may use the terms to refer to themselves. Their associations can never be registered by courts if their names contain these terms.

It is interesting that in this year's report, the State Department does not mention at all the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria and its rights to political association and freedom of speech. The report states that according to the census of 2011, 325,000 people reported as Roma and 588,000 as Turks, yet Washington doubts these figures considering that 600,000 people in the census did not answer the question regarding their ethnicity.
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Pan-Slavism was a movement in the mid-19th century aimed at unity of all the Slavic peoples. The main focus was in the Balkans where the South Slavs had been ruled for centuries by other empires, Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice.
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