To this day, there are some Greeks who believe in the myth that they are an 'ethnically pure race'. The contemporary self-image of Greeks is built upon a series of myths . The myth of continuity, the myth of the racial and cultural superiority of our ancestors, 'and thanks to continuity, our own'. The myth of being special, the myth of racial and religious purity and the myth of the genius of the 'Greek race'. The existence of these myths provokes certain predictable reactions. Thus, a typical compatriot while proud to be Greek, will abuse and censure his countrymen at the slightest provocation. This naturally, because they fail to live up to the expectations and the demands created by the myths. Greece, over the years, has taken extraordinary measures to erase what is real in favour of something artificially manufactured. 'Greekness' or 'Hellenism', as the Greeks like to call it, is a 19th century invention modeled after a culture and a race of people that ceased to exist more than two millennia ago. Greece has destroyed the real cultures, traditions and languages of its indigenous people living on its soil in favour of this artificial creation it calls Hellenism. Worse, today Greece not only denies the existence of its non-Greek roots but it insists that no indigenous races such as Albanians, Macedonians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma ever existed in Greece. Greece has not only forsaken its indigenous cultures but is consistently punishing all those who want to return to them. The so-called 'Greek Nationality/Ethos' was artificially created during the 19th century by the Great Powers in order to break up the Ottoman Empire and to stop the expansion of Pan Slavism. Britain's fear of Russia entering Mediterranean waters and contaminating its 'backyard garden' motivated British officials to do whatever was necessary to stop the 'Slav proliferation'. After Greece was created it needed people 'Greeks' to maintain and enlarge itself. These people came from the territories it occupied during its period of expansion. One need only ask, 'How come there are Macedonians, Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma living in the Republic of Macedonia and none of these ethnicities live in Greek occupied Macedonia?' It is well known that these ethnicities existed in all of Macedonia during Ottoman rule before geographic/ethnographic Macedonia was occupied and partitioned in 1912/1913. In fact there are Greek statistics compiled prior to 1912 that attest to these facts. Yet in 1928 Greece declared itself 'ethnically pure' with only 'pure Greeks' living in Greece. Naturally the burning question is 'what happened to the other ethnicities that lived in Macedonia after it was occupied by Greece in 1912?' Did they simply vanish? Of course they did not! They were Hellenized! They were 'made' into Greeks! In her infatuation with the glory of her 'false' past, Greece became ashamed of her 'real self' and buried her true present. Greece did not want a bunch of ignorant Slavs, Albanians, Vlahs, Turks, Roma for citizens. It preferred the 'mythical' types like Pericles, Leonidas and Temistocles or descendants thereof. This was all done with encouragement from her benefactors, the Great Powers. In fact, outside of some Greeks who have been labeled traitors, no one questioned Greece's motives for doing this. Greece's population makeup from 1829 to 1928. It is possible to find Albanian, Vlach, Turk, Macedonian and Roma . 1829 - Greece created for the first time, 'mostly Arvanites', Less then 1.000.000 1830, 1911 - Epirus and Thessaly Annexed, 'Vlachs and Albanians', 1.600.000 1912, 1913 - 51% of ethnographic Macedonia Annexed, 'Macedonians', 2.500.000 1920, 1928 - Importation of Christian Turks from Asia Minor, 'Turks', 1.100.000 In 1928, Greece registered 6.200.000 people after which it declared itself homogenous consisting of 100% 'pure Greeks' with a very small Muslim but ethnically Greek population. In the 1920's Greece imported 1.1 million Christian Turks from Asia Minor, claiming that they were descendants of the 'ancient Greeks'. At the time, not one of them spoke Greek or identified themselves with the Greeks. How could they have? The 'Greek nation' never existed before 1829. The crux of the problem unfortunately is that while the Greeks continue to believe in their mythical past, they interfere with reality. Falsely believing that they are all Greeks, descendants from an ancient people, they refuse to acknowledge the reality that Macedonians do exist and live on their territory. Further, to prevent the discovery of their falsehood, they even interfere in the affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, an independent and Sovereign State. . Apologia Enos Anthellina '1997-Opera Publishers', The Introductory Essay of The Eponymous Collection, Translated by The Staff of Odyssey Magazine . http://ift.tt/1dlRIxu . .

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