Macedonia and Greece: Vote settles 27-year name dispute

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EU is open to accessions because eastern countries will be forced to accept refugees, it's all about the numbers here and we all missing the point. Truth is "Macedonian" citizens have nothing to do with the actual ancient Greek history, they're just a bunch of some Slavs came from north, changed their name from FYROM to Macedonia. Greeks on the other hand think that "Macedonians" are trying to start a territorial dispute in the next few years and reclaim a Greek region also called Macedonia and that's one of the the main reason they protesting these days. There's also an organized territorial propaganda from FYROM but in the end it's just a small country without strong allies. I don't know why Greeks are so paranoid, both contries should be cooperating peacefuly without so much hate.

> I don't know why Greeks are so paranoid

I think during the Greek Civil War the National Liberation Front which was composed of Macedonian Slavic minorities waged a war of secession in Macedonia. If I remember correctly I read allegations that even after the civil war the National Front based in Yugoslavia would kidnap and impress young men from Greek Macedonia.

They aren't remembered fondly by Greeks.

Nah, that was basically some kind of a communistic conversion that didn't have enough impact on Greeks. Civil war was actually a proxy war between Russia and UK/USA, countries that participated and helped the Greek communist party were Russian puppets.

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