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Treto poluvreme (2012)
Too many political uses
This movie is a brilliant example of the propaganda, which uses some some groups in today's Republic of Macedonia. Well-made propaganda, which aims to strengthen the macedonistic national doctrine, casting shadow on the main "threat" – the Bulgarian past of Slavic Macedonians. It was no coincidence that the government in Skopje sponsored this film. Various facts are true in this mess of the historical point of view (Bulgaria was on the side of Germany etc.), but other are incorrect. An example for manipulation of facts is the invention of a conflict between the population in Vardar Macedonia and that in other parts of the then Bulgaria. To transfer present (macedonistic) realities on the (nonmacedonistic) past of Vardar Macedonia, when only a small fraction of our people (Slavic Macedonians) was against Bulgaria - Communists and Serbs, is unfair. When the German troops defeated Yugoslavia, the population in Vardar Macedonia hopes Bulgaria to administer these lands. Unfortunately, in these lands has both management of Bulgarian authorities and a significant presence of German troops. This is the reason for the giving of Jews from the region - incomplete sovereignty of Bulgaria. Where Bulgaria has full sovereignty, the Jews were saved. However there is a need to think and write clearly about these facts, not distorted them and used for propaganda through films.
P.S. Only to add that the coach of the team in Skopje, the Hungarian Jew Ilesh Spitz, during the deportation of the Jews of Vardar Macedonia was released thanks to an intervention by the chairman of the football club, the Macedonian Bulgarian Dimitar Chkatrov. Chkatrov was executed as "an enemy of the people" by communist authorities in 1945.