This video is a snippet from a Greek TV station. It is in Greek, but from 1:30 on you will hear in English, young students from FYROM (probably known to you as "Macedonia") what they are taught and what they believe. FYROM is a newly founded country. General Tito tried to establish an artificial national consciousness to many areas of Yugoslavia, in order to bring together the many different nationalities and beliefs, with stronger bond. "Re-constructed" history was used for the lower part of Yugoslavia, now known as "Macedonia" because it in deed, geographically, contained a small part of the land that used to be the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. (with the famous Alexander the Great) The publicity and the loads of money spent for this propaganda (George Soros is involved, as well) proves that this is another orchestrated attack against Greece. (For those that read history, Hitler was one of the first to use propaganda in a "scientific" way. At first you spread the new theories -it may concern people, nations, or territories- and little by little you either convince people that the message is true, or make them indifferent. And as the saying goes: For a bad thing to happen, it is enough that the good man does nothing. )
So the trouble with FYROM, that the public abroad fails to see, is that the issue of the name MAcedonia is just the beginning. What they teach these young kids from early on, is that their country is partly occupied! They claim that the whole region of ancient Macedonia (and then some more) is theirs and should be returned! Now, FYROM claims that a big part a Greece is theirs-including the geographic area Greeks call Macedonia-(and also a part that belongs to Bulgaria!) and a big part of Thessalia. Albanians claim Ipiros and Turkey claim Thracea. All these regions are 100% Greek with people speaking modern Greek, that is the only language in the world, descendant of the ancient Greek.Alexandr the Great was speaking Greek (had Aristotle as teacher) and considered the rest of the cities-countries as allies and brothers, since they shared the same line of thought, language, beliefs, religion, traditions and so on. The saying "Pas mi Ellin varvaros" (The one not Greek , is barbarian-actually here the barbarian has the meaning stranger), was so deeply rooted in their conscience, that in the ancient Olympic games, they never accepted others than Greeks. And the ancient Macedonians were participating, all the time!
FYROM, being a small and new country, is in need of historical roots in order to sustain. But it is really a shame trying to rip off the history of another nation and re-write it. These people speak a Bulgarian dialect, their monuments are either the remains of other civilizations or strongly reminiscent of the art of Slavs. Because in fact they are Slavs, a group of people that came in this Balkan region, in the 7th century after Christ!
I would be glad if they really wanted to be Macedonians, but that would mean that they would accept to be first and foremost Greeks.