1. The abbreviation VMRO somethimes in Englishliterature is translated IMRO (Internal Macedonian evolutionary Organization)It was first established in 1893 under the name of Bulgarian Macedono-OdrinRevolutionary Committee. Later it was renamed VMORO, and after that VMRO.

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2. Ljubco Georgievski - "Who should be reconciled withwhom" - Skopje 1994.

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3. Constitution of Republic of Macedonia , Skopje 1991.

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4. VMRO (obedineta), vol. I, p. 131 Skopje 1991.

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5. Stojan Novakovic - Culturo-Social Connections of theMacedonians with Serbia throughout XIX Century, Skopje 1960 p.178.

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6. After Ivan (Vancho) Mihailov 1896-1990 A Macedonianrevolutionary who always emphasized his Bulgarian ethncity.

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7. A pejorative term used by the oficial Macedonian propagandato describe the Macedonians with Bulgarian ethnic consciousness Accordingto the rerime, while the historical VMORO was supposedly struggling forthe emancipation of the Macedonian ethnic group, the 'vrhovists' of theVrhoven Makedono-Odrinski Komitet (Suprime Macedono-Odrin Committee) est.in1895 in Sofia were trying to assimilate the Macedonians into the Bulgarianethnic group. Yet there is no evidence that the historical VMORO had anydifferent views from thos of the vrhovists regarding the ethnic characterof the Macedonian slavs. The challenge made by the present chairman ofVMRO DPMNE Ljubco Georgievski to the Macedonist historians to point toa single letter, a single newspaper polemique, or whatever between theVrhovists and VMORO from the older generations in which they express differentopinions about the nationality of the main ethnic group in Macedonia, itslanguage, the Orthodox Church to which it should adhare, or the alphabetthat should it should use, remains unanswered.

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8. Macedonian Tribune, vol. 3148, June 17, 1993, FortWayne, Indiana, USA.

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9. Nova Makedonija, Skopje, November 29, 1991.

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10. From the same newspaper, June 5, 1992.

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11. From the same newspaper, August 7, 1992.

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12. In the Bulgarian name system the surnames derivedfrom the name of the father or a forefather usually end on -ov or -ev (-ovaand -eva for the women - Delchev, Gruev et c.). Most of the names endingon -ski or -shki (-ska and -shka for the women), are derived from the nameof the birthplace . (Slivenski, Veleshki et c.) Since the macedonists wantedto present many Bulgarian historical figures as ethnic "Macedonians", theycould not invent en entirely new name system. Yet they decided that thequite rare double ending of -ovski, or -evsky (-ovska and -evska) soundsmore "Macedonian" and should become the most common ending. After 1944many people were forced to change the endings of their surnames. In someregions more zealous macedonists forced people even to drop the letter"v" which sounded too Bulgarian to them. This way the completely unknownuntil than endings of -oski and -eski (-oska and -eska) were created.

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13. Macedonian Tribune, vol. 3083, November 29, 1990.

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14. Vecher, Skopje, August 19, 1994.

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15. The same material.

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16. Macedonian Tribune, New International Edition, issueII, vol. 7, January 1993.

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17. Fokus, Skopje, December 8, 1995.

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18. The artificial language problem, insisted on bySkopje, sometimes takes comical forms. An article, under the name of "Oh,if it would be Kljusev" says: "During the official visit of the BulgarianPrime-Minister to our country, Mr Branko Tsrvenkovski, together with hisBulgarian colleague Berov, at one time were communicating without an interpreter.That was personally anounced by Mr. Berov on Macedonian television and,imagine, the Macedonian television took no notice and made no comment.Apparently Macedonian television considers the fact that the Prime-MinisterTsrvenkovski knows Bulgarian a matter of national pride" (Delo,number 2, p. 5, Skopje, June 11, 1993). Of course the Bulgarian languagespoken by the Prime-Minister Tsrvenskovski, was the language he spoke everyday known in the Republic as Macedonian language.

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19. Delo, n. 139, p. 15, Skopje, January 6, 1996.

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20. Macedonian Tribune, vol. 3135, December 17, 1992.

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21. The same material, New International Edition, issueII, vol. 7, January 1993.

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22. Macedonia, issue 46, Sofia, November 20, 1992.

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23. Macedonian Tribune, vol. 3131, October 22, 1992.

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24. Delo, vol. 146, p. 8, Skopje, March 15, 1996.

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25. The same material, p. 20.

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26. The same material, vol. 147, p. 20, Skopje, March22, 1996.

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27. Puls, vol. 256, Skopje, December 15, 1995.

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28. Koha Jone, Tirana, November 20, 1996.

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29. Macedonian Tribune, New International Edition, issueIII, vol. 12, October 1994.

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30. Macedono-Bulgarian Review "Vardar", year 3, issue7, p. 68, Toronto 1996.

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31. Delo, vol. 0, p. 6, Skopje, May 14, 1993.

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32. The same material, vol. 142, p. 45, February 16,1996.

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33. The same material, vol. 147, p. 22, Skopje, March22, 1996.

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