Publisher's Synopsis
This edition of the book contains over 300 photos and documents, a colorful and more luxurious edition . When we created MPO-Pirin in 2011, the Chicago sections of MPO were six or seven. Only a few years later, reviewing the photos and documents I had taken in the MPO Archives, as well as documents sent by George Lebamov and the archives of Ivan Ilchev, I thought abouthow many sections the organization had in its history. I was surprised to find that there have been more than 50 throughout the 100-year history of the MPO. Unfortunately, the most active years of the MPO were in the 30s and 40s of the 20th Century, and subsequently the Organization weakened, but there is a logical explanation for this. The initial enthusiasm, the MPO was organized in 1922 and we can only imagine in those times when people were still in contact with letters and received information from newspapers and radio and still organized. As a result of World War II and the dramatic changes that occurred after the war, it stopped the natural flow of people from the Balkans moving to and from the American continent. Wild communism imposed by Soviet Russia in Bulgaria, as well as the repressive regimes of Greece and Tito's Yugoslavia stopped the natural connection of the Bulgarians from MK with America. It was not until 1960 that Dictator Tito allowed Yugoslavs to leave freely. People in Bulgaria are not so lucky. At the same time, Tito began sending agents who infiltrated the MPO, began to arrive from Yugoslav Macedonia, educated in the Yugoslav spirit and trained in the new "Macedonian" language and alphabet created after 1944. Sponsored by Yugoslavia New "Macedonian" churches began to be built, and Yugoslav Consuls "invited" Macedonian emigrants to leave the old Macedonian-Bulgarian churches organized by the MPO. In Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, the MPO was called Enemy Emigration. The MPO faces an impossible mission against the propaganda machines of Greece, Tito's Yugoslavia and communist Bulgaria. The biggest blow against the MPO came after 1989. At that time, a large number of MPO members were deceived by the "Independence" of Vardar Macedonia and tried with all their might and means to help the new Republic of Macedonia. Unfortunately, this new Republic not only did not get rid of the lies and falsifications of history, but continued to spread and even impose new fabrications on the history of the people of Macedonia in the 21st century. Lies against which the MPO after 1944 has not stopped fighting. There is no book, declaration or newspaper of the MPO after 1944 in which these lies and falsifications are not shown. In 2004, the UMD was even established in the United States for the sole purpose of continuing to spread Tito's Yugoslav lies and falsifications among Macedonian immigrants. Unfortunately, some out of ignorance, some out ofa desire to help a large number of old emigrants support this organization.
