Two Macedonian resolutions rejected in US Congress thanks to Macedonian Bulgarians

Two resolutions of the U.S. Congress and Senate initiated by Macedonian organizations to designate September 2022 as "Macedonian American Heritage Month" were rejected. This was announced on their Facebook page by the oldest organization of Macedonian Bulgarians there, "Macedonian Patriotic Organization "Pirin".

The organization said that "all Macedonians around the world, no matter if they are ethnic Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks, Albanians or Vlachs from the region of Macedonia, have welcomed the rejection of the two documents, which were based on falsifications and manipulations. The resolutions, according to the “Pirin MPO”, were intended to use the US Congress as a tool to rewrite history and legitimize the claim that a "Macedonian ethnicity and language" existed before 1944.

The real instigator of the resolutions, according to the Pirin MPO, was the United Macedonian Diaspora, acting as a foreign agent organization, funded and directed from abroad to influence public opinion and institutions in the United States. The "United Macedonian Diaspora" has skillfully used the opportunities offered by the American democracy to peddle lies about the "history" of the "Macedonians", taking full advantage of the limited knowledge in the American society about the history of the geographic region of Macedonia.

The fraudulent Resolutions faced widespread opposition from Macedonian Communities in United States, Canada and Bulgaria. Letter of protest has been sent from the oldest Macedonian organization in North America – Macedonian Patriotic Organization in the USA and Canada (MPO), established by Macedonian-Bulgarians in 1922 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MPO Chapter “Pirin”, Chicago, launched two online petitions to defeat both these shameful Resolutions which gained thousands of signatures, donations and supporters of the cause.

Myriad Bulgarians from the region of Macedonia have sent letters of protest to their congressional representatives and urged them not to support the distorted resolutions. Besides exposing the blunders of the resolutions, Macedonian-Bulgarians have done great educational advocacy by conducting many meetings with members US Congress and staffers.

The Pirin MPO explain that the two resolutions, unsuccessfully attempted to present as “prominent Macedonians”, people who have unequivocally declared and demonstrated their Bulgarian ethnic origin during their lifetime. Changing posthumously the ethnicity of an individual is an unimaginable crime in a democracy but a routine practice in a Neo-Communist organization like the United Macedonian Diaspora," (UMD), the Bulgarian organization in the U.S. points out.

The two resolutions tried to make the US Congress justify retroactively the results of the physical and cultural genocide of the ethnic Bulgarians that was carried out in the geographic region of Macedonia for the better part of the 20th century. This was morally unacceptable for millions of Bulgarians and for the Americans who are descendants of Bulgarians from Macedonia who immigrated to the United States in the search of a safe heaven.