Miljukow reports the Macedonian point of view in 1913

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 Today we have another important piece of evidence from Austria. In 1913, a cadet leader reported from and about Macedonia after a trip to the Balkans. The short article entitled "P. Miljukow on the Macedonian Question" was published in the "Russian Review" on February 1, 1913.

In this short report, Miljukow (anglicized Milyukov) reports on the position of the Macedonians themselves. They are against the division of Macedonia. And the Macedonian position is that of a unified and indivisible autonomous Macedonia, a Macedonia for the Macedonians!


The original wording of the report:

P. Miljukow on the Macedonian question

Petersburg. The cadet leader P. Miljukow, who recently returned from a trip to the Balkans, reports in the "Rjetsch" on the Macedonian standpoint, which, as he explains, undoubtedly exists, but which all interested parties, with the exception of the Macedonians themselves, are trying to forget. 

The Macedonian standpoint is that of a unified and indivisible autonomous Macedonia, a Macedonia for the Macedonians, (not*) a fundamental division of Macedonia, as is currently being carried out by Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks. After this division, Macedonia would no longer be a legal entity, but would be the subject of trade. The idea of ​​division is old, but it is an idea of ​​the neighboring nations, not of the Macedonians themselves.

Miljukow further relates how the approximately fifteen thousand volunteers who wanted to fight in their homeland were sent to Chataldzha, Rodesto, etc., and how their mood was by no means rosy. At the beginning of 1912, the Bulgarian professors Geoghiow and Miletich came to Petersburg as representatives of the revolutionary Macedonian organization to request the help of Russia and other powers to achieve reforms in Macedonia. 

It is characteristic that the two men in question had started their European tour from Sofia on February 29th. The two Bulgarian professors had not even suspected this. It was only at the end of their tour, when they arrived in Paris, that they heard from the diplomats there that they were a little late with their mission. 

In Macedonian circles in Salonika, one finds a restless but resigned mood. The Macedonians would probably eventually submit to the necessity of becoming subjects of another Slav government, but less willingly of those of the King of the Hellenes. What a Macedonian would hardly be able to reconcile himself to is his denationalization, which is already being attempted by the Serbs and Greeks.


*Note: There is obviously a typo in the original typed text. This is also evident from the manuscript. A handwritten note was added there that the sentence "a fundamental division of Macedonia, as is currently being carried out by Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks" is to be understood as a negation. Accordingly, the wording is, in its entirety: The Macedonian position is that of a unified and indivisible autonomous Macedonia, a Macedonia for the Macedonians, but not of a fundamental division of Macedonia, as is currently being carried out by Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks.

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