Nikolaos Michaloliakos: No compromises for our Macedonia!

Excerpt from the interview of the Secretary General of Golden Dawn at Radio-Pieria, as published in the newspaper “Golden Dawn”

“First of all, since I talk to a radio station at Pieria, in Macedonia, I have to say that is beyond unhistorical the opinion that Skopje should be called “Macedonia”. In fact Macedonia was an area around Pieria, along with Dion. Then this area expanded towards the North, in the south part of Skopje, during the hegemony of Philip II and Alexander the Great. So, regarding the argument that the area of Skopje is geographically identified as the area of the ancient Macedonia is completely stale. Then, the issue of ethnicity is absolutely ridiculous, since there is no “Macedonian nationality”! Macedonians were Greeks, they participated in the Olympic Games, they originated from Dorians and had no relation with the Slavs that inhabit Skopje. 

They also use as an argument a phrase of Alexander the Great “We will speak in Macedonian”. He meant the Macedonian dialect. Even today, Greek language has many different dialects, the Aeolian, the Doric, the Macedonian dialect. All of them are part of a single language, the Greek one.  So, language, name and ethnicity are all Greek, so no government is qualified to sold all these at Skopje.

At this point, I do not only refer to the horrendous Prespa agreement, but also to the coward and treacherous stance of New Democracy that is not bothered about the name of Macedonia. I was present when they presented in the Greek Parliament the motion of censure, where there was not any reference about the name of Macedonia”.