03 / 02 / 2009
Memorandum of the Slavic Philhellenic Network on occasion of the planned rising of Alexandre the Great’s monument in Skopje
The announced act of rising a monumental statue which shall represent the Greek statesman Alexander III by the Government in Skopje is considered by SPN as a double mistake: an attack against one’s own national nature and [...]
Alexandre the Great’s monument in Skopje
Memorandum of the Slavic Philhellenic Network on occasion of the planned rising of Alexandre the Great’s monument in Skopje
The announced act of rising a monumental statue which shall represent the Greek statesman Alexander III by the Government in Skopje is considered by SPN as a double mistake: an attack against one’s own national nature and an insult towards Republic of Greece and the Greek people.
Such move, which is hurried toward realization by persons creating autogenocidal internal and a hostile external politics cannot be judged only as wrong, but also as extremely bizarre. The idea is an act of minds which want to imprint their own complexes on the predominant population of Slavic – Bulgarian and Serbian – origin, by grabbing foreign persons as pivotal symbols of the forged self-consciousness which is acted upon for over six decades.
Any attempt to justify this megalomaniac usurpation of Hellenism through celebration precisely of its greatest benefactor with the “international and supranational character” of Alexander’s person, in this very context, with broadly represented “Macedonizing” fallacy, cannot be accepted differently but as brazen cynicism.
This self-loathing mania is an insult to the generations that were and which shall be. We Slavs, being ethnic tree with an enormous contribution to civilization, among us in general, including our branch in Povardarje, do have historical persons worthy of celebration. The appropriation, defacing and the cult of great men originating from foreign national cultures is a meaningless act the foretold manifestation of which should be stopped.
In agreement with the stated and in spirit of the urgently needed advancement of relations between Skopje and Athens the SPN proposes that the already produced monument, if judged as having appropriate aesthetic value, should be offered as a gift from the state to Republic of Greece which will affirm the friendship among both peoples and will denounce and cut the urges for sterile politics based on historical revisionism. SPN wants urgent mobilization of the intellectual public in the country and vocal expression of revolt against the planned act, required by the critical nature of this situation.
Slavic Philhellenic Network
24-December-2008, Skopje
Source: Alexandre the Great’s monument in Skopje
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