Serbian Byzantologist Radivoj Radić Against Pseudo-Macedonian Ideology (Video)

by Vladislav Perunović, Skopje, FYROM

This recently published video of a public lecture in Serbia (held in 2015) aimed against the rise of self-proclaimed ethnocentric “historians” in former Yugoslavia contains interesting notes on the identity of the so-called “Macedonians” (the main ethnic group in FYROM, proclaimed after 1934). Eminent Serbian Byzantologist, university professor Radivoj Radić, who specialized Byzantine studies in Dumbarton Oaks (USA) and who is known for his sharp criticism of “ethnocentric historiography” produced by self-proclaimed historians, states some facts on FYROM and the new “Macedonian Issue”.

Point-by-point, Radić distances himself from the trend in FYROM’s pseudo-history (which, unlike in Serbia, has official, state-sanctioned status of national ideology since 1991 and especially since 2006, after victory of far-right VMRO-DPMNE) to link the main ethnic group in that state with Macedonians of classical antiquity as well as with Macedonia in Byzantine era.

Radić illustrates with one example regarding Alexander the Great’s personal name how pseudo-historians, due to their linguistic illiteracy, create wrong etymology as basis for “nationalist” and ethnocentric pseudo history, which is popular in some peripheral political circles in Serbia. His criticism of FYROM’s anti-academic and far-right history manipulation, as well as expansionist designs by FYROM’s militant diaspora is devastating and based on contemporary academic consensus.

VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TZjhdqdLH8 Πρωτοσελιδα – Ειδήσεις