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Packed in its exclusivity the history of the “Macedonian nation” is based on one-way
isolation towards everything that might connect it with the Bulgarian history. Applying a
kind of retrospective determinism the past becomes an evidence for the present in which
Skopje has central position.
Political relations between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia after 1948 played good role for the
radical Macedonization of parts of the Bulgarian history. Reality provides enough reasons
for the formation of historical image of the enemy in the face of Bulgaria[11] [xvii].
Yugoslav communist regime creates conditions under which for the professional
researchers the negative attitude towards everything that is Bulgarian becomes an
obligatory criterion simultaneously for scientific authenticity and patriotic responsibility.
The proclaimed identity is imposed in history with the power of politics. The border
between the “Bulgarian” and the “Macedonian” in the sense of “non-Bulgarian” occurs
through geography, politics and history but is proved by “consciousness”.
The nature of communist paradigm for Macedonia is not in its ideologization but in the
ethnonationalism which is an ideology of power in the Yugoslav state. The image of
Bulgaria and the Bulgarians as enemies, guilty of its separation is a consolidating factor
within the boundaries of Yugoslavia [11][xviii].
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ii Мичев, Д. Македонският въпрос в българо-югославските отношения (9
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