Историјата како оружје: митот за „насилната македонизација“ во бугарската политика и наука

Stojkov, Stojko (2021) Историјата како оружје: митот за „насилната македонизација“ во бугарската политика и наука. Балканската историографија и современите предизвици. pp. 205-232. ISSN ISBN 978-9989-159-64-0

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Abstract

Abstract: The term “Macedonization” was created by the communist regime in Bulgaria at the beginning of the conflict with Yugoslavia in April 1948 and first referred only to the alleged aspiration that the Bulgarian minority in Pirin Macedonia be made Macedonian. On 29 July 1948, after Yugoslavia used the fact that the majority of the population in Pirin Macedonia was registered as being Macedonian in the 1946 census as an argument for asking for the autonomy of Pirin Macedonia, the Bulgarian communist party retroactively proclaimed the results of the said census to be not the result of free self-determination of the population but a product of administrative measures. After the census in 1956 confirmed, to the surprise of the authorities, the result of the 1946 census and showed that 63.6% of the population in Pirin Macedonia was Macedonian, the politics of recognition of the Macedonian minority was abandoned and replaced with Bulgarization of the population by force, which resulted in sending a few thousand Macedonians to jail or in exile. In parallel, the myth of “forceful Macedonization” was created to “explain” the results of the 1946 and 1956 censuses. Despite the fact that, to this moment, no corpus delicti has been presented to corraborate the violence or force-fullness of the so-called “Macedonization”, this myth has become the core of the position of both the Bulgarian official state and Bulgarian historiography, and the main excuse for continuing with the politics of discrimination and assimilation of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria to this day.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > History and archaeology
Divisions:	Faculty of Educational Science
Depositing User:	Stojko Stojkov
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2022 09:19
Last Modified:	11 Feb 2022 09:19
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/29378

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