Jani Bojadzi
As a person who only believes in empiricism, everything we see between Macedonia and Bulgaria neither surprises nor disturbs me, because I did not expect anything different from what is happening now, and about which I spoke fifteen years ago, and wrote on these same pages five or six years ago. I’m not a prophet, I just know that relations between states arise from relations between people. Namely, children inherit the enmity of their parents and grandparents. And most of the time, instead of leaving them in time and looking for a way to forget or neglect them, they return to them and deepen them with new antagonisms, more senseless and more intractable than the ones they inherited. It is so, so it was, so it will be. Macedonians and Bulgarians will deepen misunderstandings, differences and hostilities, which will ultimately end in war. Maybe this disturbs someone, maybe it is unacceptable for someone to say or write, but educated people should be clear that humanity, before and after, solves all problems arising in peace with wars. War and warfare are the properties of man and humanity and they will never cease. In its essence, war is a process that has its own social, but also its own – purely natural logic. And anyone who understands and respects the logic of man and his nature can understand this too. Completely natural and completely human.
If someone thinks that the reasons for the war between Russia and Ukraine, which is entering its fifth year, are in any way different from the reasons for the future war between Macedonia and Bulgaria, then he does not understand anything about peace, which in relations such as ours always ended with weapons and were resolved by force. In anticipation of the third world war, which, let’s be realistic, everyone eagerly wants to officially start, I will once again ask the question: are the misunderstandings between Macedonia and Bulgaria so great that they cannot be resolved even with the power of the European Union, which is essentially an alliance made and still exists only and solely for the sake of peace. At least in Europe. No, of course. The misunderstandings and antagonisms between Macedonia and Bulgaria are not greater and more substantial than those between Germany and France, Germany and Poland or between Sweden and Norway, empirically speaking. These countries, which are given to us as nations of peaceful and tolerant people with white skin and blond hair, have mutual histories of quarrels, wars and slaughters, which compared to our Balkan quarrels, we can experience what Ilko says in “Tattooing” – “peaceful as bugs”!
If so, why then are they not decided by those whom we persistently believe hold the keys to the doors of peace and the scales of justice? Because they didn’t have them, and they won’t have them either. We still cannot understand that even publicly the most powerful European countries, Germany and France, have never been able to, and have never resolved at least one European issue that has affected this continent of delusions since the fall of the Roman Empire to the point of causing war. Which collision did Germany and France prevent? What peace did Germany and France bring? From 395 to the present day? History, which they themselves wrote down in their books and which they claim is truth and not fiction, has no such case.
I really don’t understand how apparently educated people, who unfortunately manage the modern currents of social life in this country, for thirty-five years cannot face plain and simple facts about the real strength of the countries from which they expect solutions to the issues that plague Europeans and those who want to become them? Germany and France do not have the strength and power to protect themselves and their own citizens from the consequences of wars in the neighboring and Far East from the drawn big state that they imaginary rule, and we persistently expect them to solve our problems. I also understand pseudo-knowledge, pseudo-education, pseudo-managers, but this is ours, which becomes boring even for small children, and not for adults who have to take care of themselves and the lives of their current and future generations.
According to the state of things, I am an optimist, an altruist, even a naive person, who believes that homosapiens are good by nature, and humanity is an oasis of peace, as he liked to call Macedonia Kiro Gligorov, the politician who fought for peace from the first to the last day of his political career, and at the end of his life he will be remembered for his scared, worried, almost panicked loud shout that his country is subject to seizure! He, unlike those who succeeded him in the party, finally added: “He won’t be able to?!” His ability is ongoing. How will it end, I don’t know? I said in a sentence above that I am not a prophet.
Who causes the antagonisms between Macedonia and Bulgaria? In my opinion, we are talking about a massive operation, which has been very successfully conducted by the Serbian secret services for eighty years, which have entered these murky waters of hatred in a freestyle and swim flawlessly in all shallow and deep Bulgarian governments. From that of comrade Todor Zhivkov, to this one of Mr. Rumen Radev. The Serbs must be congratulated for really skillfully leading the Bulgarian foreign policy, which is dedicated to “every day and in every respect” as it was said in the Yugoslav film “Do you remember, Dolly Bell” (according to Bulgarian political experts, without Yugoslavia this claim of mine is absurd), so the Bulgarian politicians from Macedonia and the Macedonians “every day and in every respect” make enemies and enmities, which are compared to those of our fathers and grandfathers seem naive, almost at the story level. Not to mention that they sound like a “red one” joke. My dears, I discovered that Serbia has infiltrated, according to the logic of things to make this possible, probably about 6.5 million of its own people in Bulgaria and 2.5 million well-trained agents all over the world where every Bulgarian lives with or without a Bulgarian passport and Bulgarian self-esteem, and those Serbian agents “every day and in every way” indoctrinate the poor Bulgarians to hate Macedonians and “every day and in every way” to come up with new and new causes for new and new hatreds towards each other. I tried these last few weeks of intensive production of hatred to find the reasons why the Bulgarian state policy decided to make enemies out of Macedonia and the Macedonians as long as the world and the century exist and, lo and behold, I found them! Like all other great and important things, they are right in front of our noses – so to speak, and we have not been able to see them. Indeed, this with Serbia and the Serbians is the only logic of things, because after all, the Bulgarian heads of state themselves admit that, despite everything they did with “immeasurable love and great care” towards us in the past, and are doing in the present, we North Macedonians, as they call us with “pietet” when they think and talk about us, have unreasonably chosen to be part of the Serbian world! Among them is poor me, as manager of “Serbian television”, according to the publicly stated and indisputably established scientific evidence of “general identity inclination of stupid North Macedonians” towards Serbia and Serbianness.
Those who understand that this last paragraph is ironic, let me warn them that it is not! And those who think that I mean the latter seriously, must know that I am not unfamiliar with metaphors, parables and other tools of written expression. And sometimes I like to joke. What is there to do in a trench, while waiting for the generals from both warring sides to make plans for an attack and breakthrough, which always begins and ends with a song?! The first time was out of luck that the war had finally begun, and the second time that it had finally ended! In anticipation of peace, stay alive and well until the next column, my dears. I still want someone to read me, of course with a smile and a song.
The author is a director and professor at Europa Prima University.
