During the 2nd World War period the president of Yugoslavia at the time General Tito launched the plan of the creation of the "Macedonian nation".

The long term goals was :

• to acquire the rest of the Macedonian land which is occupied by Greece (55%) Bulgaria (15%) and Albania (5%) as a result of the treaty of Bucharest.

• to give an ethnic consciousness to the mixture of people living in this region
  

The southern part of Yugoslavia was renamed from Vardarska to "Socialist Republic of Macedonia" (August 1944) and the Yugoslav historians (Kriste Pitoski, Alexander Trayanovski, Risto Poplazakov and Ivan Katardziev are some of them) started their attempt to establish the existence of the Macedonian nation during the last 1000 years. In December 1948, the "National History Institute of the Macedonian People" was founded in Skopje.

"It was an effective way for Tito to integrate Macedonia into Yugoslavia since it served to delegitimate both Serbian and Bulgarian claims to the area. (This approach is similar to the way that Tito handled Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. It also dovetailed nicely with Tito's ambition to create a Balkan communist federation encompassing Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece.)"
(International Research & Exchanges Board ,
Macedonia: Ethnic and international issues,
Washington, DC, April 27, 1995 )

More on the creation of the "Macedonian nation".

In order to justify even more the claims against Greece and Bulgaria Tito created the issue of the "Macedonian minorities" and so the Slavophone Greeks became an "opressed Macedonian minority"
Today FYROM insists that there is a large "Macedonian minority" in Greece and there are various estimates ranging from 100 thousend to 1 million. Of course these number are extremely exaggerating.
The only "Macedonian minority" in Greece is a small group of propagandists from FYROM who are trying to establish the existence of a Macedonian minority by founding various "Macedonian" institutions. They even created a political party to expess the Macedonian minority. This party took part in the latest general elections in Greece (September 1996) gathering all together less than 3.500 votes in a region of more than 2 million people. The people who are behind this movement are well known to Greece for their actions. Some names are : Traianos Pasois, Hristos Sideropoulos, Tasos Boulis, Pavlos Voskopoulos and Nikodimos Tsarknias.

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The propaganda against the history of ancient Macedonia

From the mid 1980s the Slavs have launched an enormous operation against Greece and its word wide respected history. The objective of their propaganda is to prove that ancient Greeks and Macedonians were different nations and that there was a mutual hostility between them and the rest of Greeks. They usualy use extracts from ancient historians (mainly Greek) which seem to consider Macedonians as a different nation.

However:

• The translation of the original documents into the English language is often inaccuret and misleading.

• The extracts are chosen in such a way that the meaning is completely different if the reader reads the whole document.

History is based on facts and in the case of Macedonia the facts are obvious. The archaeological discoveries and the ancient historians prove beyond any doubt the "Greekness" of ancient Macedonia.

Even by proving that ancient Macedonia was independed of Greece the Slavs still can not establish a connection between them and Macedonia. Even if we accept that they are right and Macedonians was a different nation there is no way to prove that the Slavs that live today in FYROM are descedants of these Macedonians. IF there was a "Macedonian nation" it had very strong ties with the Greek nation and IF there was a "Macedonian language" it was very closely related to the Greek language. So the obvious question is were do they fit in? Why do they claim to be Macedonians? Greece has proved its relation with ancient Macedonia but what is their relation? IF ancient Macedonia wasn't Greek it was certainly not Slavic. Occupying 25% of ancient Macedonian land does not give them the right to name their country "Republic of Macedonia".