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- From: irakliot@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Leo J. Irakliotis)
- Subject: Re: Ellemann-Jensen on Macedonia
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:52:31 GMT
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- In article <C19LBB.6yC@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>, cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear) writes:
- |>
- |> Hmm I wonder how you'd characterise those who called for Enosis
-
- I call them Cypriots and they are citizens of the republic of Cyprus and
- should you get reading more history and geography you will find that
- Cyprus is an indepentent state.
-
- |> or read the Stochos newspaper.
-
- A negligible minority. If you base your definition of nationalism in a country,
- just on a 0.001% of the population that happens to follow an extreme-right
- wing party, and has no state representation or whatsoever, the be aware:
- on the same token facism is spreading in UK, France and elsewhere.
-
- |> I think their
- |> crime was to say that they felt Macedonian not Greek in public.
-
- That's good --- that you can think I mean. Now, try to get the facts
- straight, before continuing your intended misleading of this group.
-
- |> We should also mention perhaps the
- |> five *Greek* communists who are on trial for treason (!) simply for
- |> circulating a pamphlet which disagreed with the official line on
- |> Macedonia.
-
- Thank you for confirming my calculations: 5 in a population of 10,000,000
- or 2 out of 10,000,000 isn't exactly what I would call an ethnic group.
-
-
- |> As regards the other countries you mention, let's face it every country
- |> has a few fascists.
-
- That burn schools and attack their politicians (Germany for example), that
- get elected in the Parliament (France), etc? You call them a few? Boy, you
- have *the* gift for understatement.
-
-
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