Macedonian State-National Concepts and ... - Makedonika

the Memoir had been received only after the Appeal of March 9 “had already been
written and signed”, warning the Macedonians:
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The signatories to the aforesaid memoir, former activists of the Revolutionary
Organization, have obstructed and thwarted at the most crucial moments for our
fatherland any attempt at mobilizing the collective mind, consciousness and conscience
of the Internal Macedonian Organization so that it itself may deal with the
situation created around the Macedonian question and the events before, during and
after the war, and by using their accidental power abundantly, these two men have
personally appropriated the right to make decisions on behalf and at the expense of
Macedonia.
It is not our business to point to the disgrace of Bulgarian statesmen who have
allowed such accidental persons to play high political roles only because of their
reverence for the rewards offered by Kaiser Wilhelm and due to the fear arising from
their connections with the Bulgarian Court. We leave this odd political anomaly to
the judgement of the Bulgarian political and social conscience, if there is such a
thing.
As far as our compatriots in Macedonia and Bulgaria are concerned, we are bound
to declare before them that these persons have long ago ceased to have anything in
common with the Revolutionary Organization and have long ago chosen not to
follow its path, but another, abusing its name only for their personal benefit; that
any involvement on their part today in the affairs of the Macedonian cause bears
only venom and spite, and that the name, the honour and the past of the Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization stand sufficiently high to make us frustrate with all our
might, fully and immediately, this unparalleled insanity: our bloodstained and
long-suffering Macedonia’s being protected before the Peace Conference by the tools
of Kaiserism and by the blustering heroes of the imperial ceremonies in Niš.
There is no doubt that the most important work was that of “the activists of the
former Seres revolutionary organization” and that of “the Former United Internal
Revolutionary Organization”. As early as October 1918, the first group published
the Declaration on the Settlement of the Macedonian Question described
above, and a short time later they came out with a detailed explication entitled
Back to Autonomy, which was “a kind of commentary on the Declaration of the
former Seres revolutionaries”, whose unnamed author was actually the ideologist
of this group, Dimo HadÔidimov. This pamphlet, which played a significant role
not only among the Macedonians but also in the wider public, examined nearly all
the essential questions at that historical moment. After giving an ‘Assessment of
the present political situation in Bulgaria’, it analysed the following subjects: ‘The
origin and development of the idea of autonomy in the past’, ‘Autonomy is
destroyed as a national ideal’, ‘The role of the Macedonian émigré community in
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