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MPO PIRIN started this petition:
This petition is to express my disagreement with the proposed House Resolution 741*, Expressing support for the designation of the month of September 2022 as „Macedonian American Heritage Month“ and celebrating the Macedonian language, history, and culture of Macedonian Americans and their incredible contributions to the United States (hereafter referred to as Resolution 741).
This document is based on falsifications and manipulations and it aims at using the US Congress as a tool to re-write history and legitimize the claim that a „Macedonian” ethnicity and language existed before 1944. Adopting this resolution would be equivalent to official approval by the United States of the policy of the USSR, the Communist International (Comintern), and Joseph Stalin personally to annihilate the millennia-old history and presence of Bulgarians in the geographic region of Macedonia and to create a „Macedonian” ethnic group out of the Bulgarians living in the geographic region of Macedonia. This is one of many examples of the policy of Joseph Stalin to create, annihilate or move geographically whole nations, in support of his visions of establishing a world communist state, dominated by Moscow. This policy is used by Joseph Stalin’s political descendants to this day. It suffices to mention the falsifications of history, used by modern day Russia to justify the invasion in Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea.
Paragraph 3 of Resolution 741 states that after 1880 tens of thousands of „Macedonians“ fled to America. This deliberately fails to explain that until 1944 there were no ethnic “Macedonians”. Until 1944, a “Macedonian” meant somebody who came from the region of Macedonia, regardless of his or her ethnicity. A “Macedonian” could be an ethnic Bulgarian, Turk, Greek, Albanian or Vlach. And it is an indisputable scientific fact that the biggest ethnic group in the multiethnic geographic region of Macedonia was the Bulgarian. This is easily verifiable in contemporary sources, including those originating in the United States.
The text of Resolution 741, one cannot omit the laughable claim that „Macedonian presence“ in the United States dates back to 1492. It is an easily verifiable historic fact that neither any Europeans reached the lands of today’s United States in 1492, nor any ethnic “Macedonians” existed prior to the start of the communist policy to create them in the 20th century. Such claims, if endorsed by the US Congress, will not only serve to justify some of the most violent communist crimes but will also deprive the study of history from any meaning.
The draft resolution also states that according to the UMD, there are „half a million Americans of Macedonian heritage living in the United States“ without specifying anything about their ethnicity, period of arrival in the United States or the geographic scope of the term “Macedonian”. This is despite the fact that parts of the geographic region of Macedonia are in the territories of several modern-day states and that the geographic region of Macedonia has been a multiethnic area for centuries.
The draft resolution states also that „the Macedonian Americans contributed to constructing of several dozen Macedonian Orthodox Churches throughout the United States“. This is a flagrant example of falsification, as all the so-called „Macedonian churches“ were built by Bulgarian immigrants from the region of Macedonia and were named “Bulgarian – Macedonian churches“. This is a fact that is reflected in various US registers and could be easily verified with the local authorities.
Furthermore, the majority of the “prominent Macedonians”, mentioned in Resolution 741 have unequivocally declared and demonstrated their Bulgarian ethnic origin during their lifetime. Changing posthumously the ethnicity of an individual is an unimaginable crime in a democracy but a routine practice in a communist dictatorship. The US Congress should not be associated with such Stalinist practices.
The moral integrity and the public standing of the US Congress are at stake! In its essence, draft resolution 741 is a hybrid attack at the heart of American democracy. Without sparing means and funds, pro-Serbian and pro-Russian lobbyists have managed to submit for consideration by the US Congress a draft document that promotes the policies of Joseph Stalin and the Communist International. The eventual adoption of such a resolution would be a huge disappointment for millions of Bulgarians and for many more millions of other Eastern Europeans, who suffered from the rule of the USSR and its proxy regimes, and who are still exposed to the falsification of history by the political descendants of Joseph Stalin with the aim to justify oppression and invasion, like in the case of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
As a loyal citizen of United States, voter and taxpayer, I believe that the American institutions must always be vigilant about such attempts.
HONORABLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
In the spirit of moral integrity, freedom, democracy, human rights, rule of law and historic truth, I sincerely ask you NOT TO SUPPORT draft Resolution 741.
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* H.Res.741 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): Expressing support for the designation of the month of September 2022 as „Macedonian American Heritage Month“ and celebrating the Macedonian language, history, and culture of Macedonian Americans and their incredible contributions to the United States.
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