In a shocking display of ultra-nationalism, demonstrators from diaspora communities of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia burned piles of Greek flags during a demonstration in Melbourne on Sunday.
Thousands turned out for the rally outside Victoria’s State Parliament building, carrying bright red banners and flags and chanting messages that their name and heritage were not up for negotiation.
In a shocking and ugly display of ultra-nationalism and hatred, a pile of Greek flags were burned. A photo of a young boy looking on has gone viral.
“Hatred is taught at an early age,” Maria Stathopoulou commented on Facebook as she shared the photo.
But Greeks retaliated in the days after the ugly display perpetrated by the FYROM demonstrators, vandalizing a church that is part of the self-styled “Macedonian Orthodox” community with the words “Fuck Skopje” and “Ellas Macedonia” written in Greek.
A youth soccer club was also vandalized with the words “death to you all” and other graffiti.
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Leonidas and his 300 Spartans begat the agrarian warrior glory of western civilization while Huntington’s Clash put Athens in the Islamo-Soviet zone. Sparta colonized Sicily, hence begat Rome, while Athens colonized Scythia hence begat Russia. Alexander’s dad choked Athens by grabbing the Besant straits to choke off Scythian wheat. Macedonia was Great because the population was mostly Albanian Illyrian Pelasgians, and the royalty was from Spartan Argos. The Athenians are the source of all heathen leftist ideas like globalist commerce, Delian central banking, cowardly philosphers and socialist taxation. Athenians are full of Oriental notions of incomprehensible truth and the holy dialectic of the Trojan horse just like Sun Tzu’s war by stealth. Herodotus (i57,ii1,vi137) knew the Arvanitas of Koropi were Pelasgians which is why Metaxas expunged it. Northern Greeks today have more Albanian than Slavic DNA. All the emperors of the Besant married Athenian women which is why they begat Islam and communism.
Thanks for spreading light on this serious issue.
Thanks for the clarity!!