ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
Modern “North Macedonian” identity deserves respect in its indisputable Slavic origins. Historical fabrication and chants telling Greeks to “leave” Macedonia deserve none.
By Nick Stamatakis
There is something grotesquely ironic about standing in Meliti, Florina – in Greece itself – and singing “Go away, Greeks, enough with the lies” while claiming Alexander the Great as proof of your own nationalist mythology. The Greeks are not required to leave Macedonia. They are already in Macedonia, in the land where Greek speech, worship, inscriptions and memory have survived across millennia.
The singer’s own official upload independently confirms the song and its published lyrics.
This is another video from a few years ago…
As someone who has spent years researching and writing a doctoral degree on this particular issue, “revisionism of history” (focusing on Cyprus), I get particularly upset facing such questions. Modern North Macedonians are perfectly entitled to their state, their South Slavic language, their songs and their contemporary national identity. What no nation is entitled to is a time machine. Alexander cannot simply be detached from the Hellenic world because a modern nationalist song finds the historical record inconvenient.
Herodotus tells us that when Alexander I of Macedon sought to compete at Olympia, rivals challenged his eligibility on the grounds that the competition was for Greeks. The Olympic judges examined his ancestry, accepted his Argive descent, and admitted him as Greek. Alexander the Great, two generations later, was educated by Aristotle, lived intellectually in the universe of Homer, and carried Greek language and culture across an empire whose aftermath historians call, for good reason, the Hellenistic Age.
Ancient Macedonia was not culturally identical to democratic Athens—and nobody serious claims it was. Greeks fought Greeks constantly. Athens, Sparta, Thebes and Macedonia could be political enemies without magically becoming different civilizations. The ancient evidence is more complicated than slogans, but it is overwhelmingly embedded in the Hellenic linguistic, religious, and cultural world.
And here is the devastating modern irony: North Macedonia itself signed this distinction into an international agreement. Article 7 of the Prespa Agreement recognizes its official Macedonian language as South Slavic and expressly separates its modern history and heritage from the ancient Hellenic civilization, history, culture, and heritage associated with Greek Macedonia.
Many of us opposed the “ethnonihilistic” Greek government of Alexis Tsipras signing this agreement. The main reason was that we knew the Skopjans would never respect the letter of the agreement and would start disputes.
Remember, we are talking about people, the official Skopje government, who, 12-15 years ago, had the gall to send an official mission to Sofia, Bulgaria, and demand that the Bulgarians have an interpreter in the room. The Bulgarians, to their credit, refused: “We understand you perfectly; no need for translation!”
Alexander’s legacy belongs to humanity today. No Greek needs to imprison him behind a border.
But universality does not require falsification.
Celebrate your Slavic language. Celebrate your culture. Celebrate your own ancestors and history proudly.
Just do not stand in Greece, tell Greeks to “leave,” and demand that history leave with them. That is not cultural pride.
It is historical distortion and appropriation set to music.
September 12, 2026, www.helleniscope.com, n.stamatakis@aol.com
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Nick
well presented analysis of the important factual events that describe Tsipra’s, sloppiness, or
lack of (TSIPA) – guard down, of not establishing clarification on Slavs claiming
the Macedonian Name.
What is additionally, disturbing is that the Slavs have also highjacked the Macedonian – The Golden Star of the Macedonian Empire. It is planted on their official flag.
Alexander, would also be offended as well as I am. Today, the Greek Nation makes the rightful claim to announce that the Macedonians were a part of the Hellenic civilization. Nevertheless, regrettably, they avoid- or out of ignorance, they fail to emphasize , to print the Macedonian Golden Star- on the Official Flag of The Greek Nation? to make it a 3 color flag that would honor the Proud Hellenic-Macedonian Civilization with the significant logo.
Let’s not ignore that, during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games , prestigiously it is the highest honor of having the Greek Flag that
circulates around the stadium to inspire and educate athletes and fans worldwide. The Olympic Games were initiated as we all know, in Olympia Greece in 776BC. Yet, there is not one symbol that represents the Glorious Ancient Greek civilization!! Time to add the logo- the current one is product from bravely gaining our independence from the occupying Turkish Occupation of 1821. The Greek identity is beyond it, it is myriad process from our historical “Topos” ,over 3,000 to 5,000 years!
Standing in Meliti, Florina and shouting ‘Go away, Greeks’ while claiming Alexander the Great is an absurdity that defies history. Greeks are in their ancestral homeland, where Greek speech and heritage have lived for thousands of years. The Greek state and regional representatives must stop looking the other way. Decisive intervention and accountability were needed yesterday.
Such are the residual effects of communism. Tito really did a number on the Skopjiani!
“Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort you feel when your actions, values, or beliefs do not match.”
Watch the video below and see for yourself how in 2026 the Skopjiani themselves claim structural buildings in their country are fake!
[VIDEO] The Business of Bigotry?
The Fifth Estate: Season 51, Episode 12
cbc (dot) ca/player/play/video/9.7136764
The Entropy Far-right platform from Canada is now operating from North Makedonski and Georgia
2 – One of the co-founders Emmanuel Constantinidis, who set up the Entropy channel is allegedly now profiting from Orthodoxy.
The Fifth Estate claims that Constantinidis makes over $400.00 per hour from this platform.
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” Go Away Greeks” while claiming Alexander as their own hero. The inaccuracy is an insult by revisionist history that distorts the Dynamic Hellenistic Empire founded and advanced by Alexander and his Macedonian Warriors that later evolved into the confines of the Christian World under the Roman Empire. I profess ,that we are a product of both cultures ;the ancient and modern Hellenic Civilization. Above, I made the comment that Alexander “would be offended’. meaning he would be offended that ,
his own heirs the Hellenic People -today’s Modern Greeks have neglected to upgrade ,to inject the Macedonian 16 pointed Golden Star on the Official Greek Flag -Neglected to Officially Honor Alexander’s Legacy, who advanced Hellenism Heroically , never losing a battle into the vast deserts of Asia. To Helleniscope Supporters , I challenge my Greek Comrades ( fellow Hellenes and
Phil-Hellenes), the Current Greek Government to fix it. In order to put the Macedonian Golden Star on the White Cross on the Official Flag of the Greek Nation. A national plebiscite can be held in Greece to officially recognize The Macedonian Golden Star to Honor with the proper logo, to highlight the dynamic symbol , in order to be on the Right of History!
Historically, they were considered Bulgarians because of the dialect they spoke.
However, their real problem is still brewing…the way the Albanians are multiplying like rabbits, at some point they will comprise more than 50% of Skopje, and they will be hearing songs about Greater Albania when the government is overtaken….The Albanians don’t care about any other “name” other than “Sqiperia”…