Dragomir Bogdanov

Macedonian Students and Youth Organizations: Before 1944 Dragomir Bogdanov

I hope that this documental book with more than 90 historical document and photos shown photo typical on Macedonian Student and Youth Organizations will contribute to a better understanding of the Macedonian issue in the United States and Western Europe. As well as will help Western Diplomats to understand the essence of the disputes between Bulgaria and the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Documents from Macedonian Student and Youth Organizations clearly show that the Macedonian language, alphabet, and nation did not exist before 1944, and they emerged after Tito's Communists took control of Vardar Macedonia (now the Republic of Northern Macedonia) and, as the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in the United States called it: "shameful Tito's theory" . Of course, this does not prevent today's Macedonians from calling themselves whatever they want, but at the same time it does not give them the right not to respect the rights of people who before 1944 and today called themselves Bulgarians in Macedonia, nor does it give them the right to appropriate this part of the Bulgarian history, at the same time pointing the finger at Bulgaria and accusing it of stealing history. They has no right to destroy Bulgarian monuments and inscriptions, to erase where a Bulgarian is written and to write a Macedonian. This book, of course, will be interesting to many history buffs, because at least I don't know of such a book with so many documents ever being published.