REMEMBRANCE IN TIME - Index of

FALSIFICATION IS DEFENDED BY
ANOTHER FALSIFICATION
Mladen SRBINOVSKI 1
A self-centered master of arts and especially of literature will not contribute
significantly. It will be done by an author who predominantly is looking at the others. The
more we see what’s happening around us, the more we learn about ourselves. But there
are experiences that happened to the others, we heard about them from the others, and we
can have only a pale proves in terms of our own experience for that same event.
Our personal experience with communism is just like that. As time passes, it is normal
to state that the new generations will create historical distance, with more objective
thinking about that historical phenomenon which for long decades was reality and
significantly marked and shaped the twentieth century. But we, the people who lived that
time, a bit emotionally in the first decade of 21 st century, gathered here to discuss about
our time in socialism. I don’t believe that we will be completely understood by the young
people in the auditoria. Here in Bulgaria and in every country under the communism, we
are already incomprehensible with our emotions, positive or negative, and that means we
as persons are incomprehensible.
Maybe I am wrong, dear attendants, for thinking that even before you opened your
mouths, I already know what you will say. As much as I want to learn about your
experience in the time of the communism and how will you shape it in thoughts, even
more I want to see how you will shape your emotion in picture or thought.
My books are my receptacles of emotions. And probably because of that, the host of this
round table, invited me, to share my emotions and to hear something for our Macedonian
specificity that started by the time of the socialism, and its crescendo continues until
nowadays So, I came from one Balkan exotics, the central area and mythical core of the
Balkans, one small, young and unstable country, which does not have its own
internationally recognized name, and our problem that we have with our neighbors
Greece, for decades is under surveillance for solving by the United Nations and European
Union. Small countries, in opposite of their area, are capable of creating such big
problems, that even United Nations and the European Union are not in condition of
solving them. I don’t know how well informed you are but Skopje is visited everyday by
ministers, prime ministers and delegations from the biggest European countries and they
return home with close lips and slump shoulders, after what they hear from the
Macedonian government and what they see in the center of Skopje.
Fascism and communism are the twin brothers of the European totalitarianism of the
twentieth century and it depends in which country or region, how much one of them was
working. The consequences that they left behind are dire and Europe will need years to
recover fully. And while you already talk about the false enthusiasm, different
1 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.