Word: macedonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Territorial Demands. The new power at once began to expand. Yugoslav Macedonians insisted that Yugoslavia's new Macedonian district should include not only Bulgarian Macedonia but Greek Macedonia...
...peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis -and 30,000 of them waited at the railroad station for Branko Chubrilovitch, who resigned as Minister of Agriculture in protest against capitulation...
Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun by Latins, Franks, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks. Their culture and even their language disintegrated. Their country was pauperized and depopulated. For 20 centuries the government they had devised was only a memory. Then democracy once more stirred in the world, on the shores of the Atlantic. A few patriots and idealists...
Worse still for Weygand, it appeared that the success of the German Blitzkrieg was the result of a major military invention. There have been such inventions before (e.g., the Macedonian phalanx, the Roman Legion with its checkerboard maniple), and usually they have given their inventors military mastery for generations. Not merely tanks, not merely bombers, not merely greater concentrations of troops and materiel but a new military technique of using all these things together was the secret of German success...