Historical revisionism / negationism in t

That is what happened to the Slavs of the FYROM. They were not born ethnic Macedonians, their Macedonian ethnicity was constructed by the state in 1943-1945.

What characteristics (historical, cultural, genetic, linguistic, or anthropological) does the FYROM population possess- besides inhabiting a section of the former Vardar Province - to be described by communists first, by anthropologists later, as "Macedonian"?

Why did the Slav "Macedonians" describe themselves as Bulgarians from 1870 to 1943 -and many do so today - waiting for almost seventy-five years to be transformed into "Macedonians" by the dictatorial powers of a communist state.

We have hear from the FYROMacedonians many options regarding theirs history. Actually theirs history is under Construction according a very clever graphic that created a diaspora Greek ling time ago. Theirs artificial history are made or support (some times involuntary) from a small number of historians but with a strong influence because the big financial (e.g. Soros) and political (e.g. US Administration) support for several reasons.

Historical revisionism from the FYROMacedonians or better the Macedonists (like Stefou, Borza, Baddian e.t.c.) is the exercise whereby historians revise their opinions on historical events in the face of new evidence. It is an essential part of the history writing process. Revisionism(with quotes) is a distortion of history practiced by persons, usually inspired by anti-hellenism or a desire to rehabilitate the Nationalism (any kind), or both. The more accurate description of "revisionists", is "deniers". They describe themselves as revisionists because they think it gives them an air of respectability.

History (according Standard Dictionary of the English Language) is the recorded narrative of past events, especially those concerning a particular period, nation, individual, etc. It recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of their interest or importance. It can be seen from this that history acknowledges the existence of events and facts and seeks to understand how they came about, what they resulted in, how they are interconnected and what they mean.

The distinctions need to be made among facts, analysis and interpretation.
Facts are demonstrably empirical events whose occurrence can be proven using evidentiary methods.
Analysis is the method of determining or describing the nature of a thing by resolving it into its parts.
Interpretation is the attempt to give the meaning of something. It follows that facts lead to analysis which leads to interpretation. And it follows that each step in the process is more subjective than the preceding step.
In this context history is innductive in its methodology, in that it accumulates the facts tries to determine their nature and their connectivities and then attempts to weave them into an understandable and meaningful mosaic.

FYROMacedonian Revisionists depart from the conclusion that the Macedonians were not Greeks, did not occur and work backwards through the facts to adapt them to that preordained conclusion. Put another way they reverse the proper methodology described above thus turning the proper historical method of investigation and analysis on its head. That is not to say that historians never depart from a preconceived or desired resultthey often do. But in adhering rigorously to the correct methodology they accept that the result of their investigation may not be what they envisaged at the beginning. They are prepared to adapt their theories to that reality.

Indeed, they are often required to revise their conclusions based on the facts. To put it tritely, "revisionists" revise the facts based on their conclusion.

Why they do this is not the subject of this piece, but a few examples of the distortions, evasions and denials that it forces on them will illustrate how intellectually dishonest it is. And it should be remembered that they are forced on them, since FYROMacedonians (and not only) revisionists are denying a historical occurrence, then distorting the facts into accord with that denial.

I am curious what will be your next Historical Revensionist Finding ?