Simeon The Great
Banned
From the first half of the 2000s - the end of the ten years of the 21st century, the former Republic of Macedonia, which in a natural historical development after the Balkan Wars and even after the Two World Wars would have been the South-Western part of my native Bulgaria, and after the Second World War - the second Bulgarian state, started an official policy of Antiquization , presenting the country as the successor of the ancient Thracian state of Macedonia, the leading expression of which policy was the Skopje 2014 project. This policy was officially rejected due to pressure from Greece. And because Ancient Macedonia is a Thracian state, and the Thracians have been recognized in recent decades as part of the ancestors of today's Bulgarian people, I want to ask what will be the domestic and international consequences of such a humanitarian policy? I think that Greece will react more softly, because it needs good relations with Bulgaria, because of the common Turkish threat, and Bulgaria is also stronger, but how exactly will it react, considering that the Ancient Greek Gods are actually Ancient Thracian, the Muses are taken from the Thracians, and Aesop, Themistocles, Democritus, Justinian the Great and other important historical figures for the Greeks were also Thracians -or on the contrary, some of the Greeks will perceive us as distant or closer relatives? The Dacians are also Thracians - whom the Romanians consider their ancestors- so how much this will bring Bulgarians and Romanians closer together!? Thracians and Illyrians are related - so how close would this bring Bulgarians and Albanians, Croats, Bosnians (especially Muslim Bulgarians) and Montenegrins and how much would it weaken Serbian hostility towards Bulgarians? How much more the local Slavic citizens of Macedonia would consider themselves ethnic Bulgarians, separated in the past from the Bulgarian nation or at the very least - friendly to Bulgarians - in OTL their Bulgarophobia is the most disgusting anti-national attitude in post-communist countries since Armenophobia in Azerbaijan, with the difference that if he stops hating Armenians, an Azeri will not organically flow into the Armenian nation? To what extent will this stop the centrifugal tendencies regarding the Bulgarian national self-awareness in Bulgaria itself - in particular the separation of the Muslim Bulgarians from the rest of the Bulgarians and the propagation of a Macedonian "national" ideology in Pirin Macedonia, which today belongs to Bulgaria - a legacy of Bulgaria's defeat in the Second World War and its subordinate position vis-à-vis the USSR and Yugoslavia? How will it affect Bulgarian-Russian relations and will it encourage such policies in other Slavic countries? Will Bulgaria, through the EU, be pressured to abandon this policy for Greece, after the EU pressured us to let North Macedonia into the EU while supporting Greece against that country?