Interview with Zakharieva, Foreign Minister of Bulgaria. Says Tito = Hitler
Quote: "This also shows a lack of pluralism. They were also pretty brutal to me when I dared to express my lack of understanding as they celebrated the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the darkest dictators - Tito . Who murdered up to 1.7 million people in the former Yugoslavia in less than ten years. And they still celebrate him. The mayor of Skopje is a party friend of Zaev. After that I wasn't that popular there anymore. But that would be as if the mayor of Berlin had the idea of celebrating the anniversary of Hitler's death."
We did a quick research online for the number of people Tito murdered she claimed. This figure of 1.7 million was likely taken from this BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml
The article states: "The violent struggles that occurred in Yugoslavia between 1941 and 1945 resulted in over 1.7 million dead. Of these, one million were caused by Yugoslav killing Yugoslav, whether it was Croat Ustase against Jews, Muslims, Serbs, Chetniks and Partisans; or Partisans against Chetniks and Ustase; or Chetniks against Ustase, Muslims, and Partisans." So, this is not a number of people Tito murdered... which does not mean he did not murder many.
There is some more info to read further in these links:
Then Minister Zakharieva claims there have been many anti-Bulgarian articles by Macedonians in social media. What did she expect after Bulgaria is denying Macedonian's existence as a nation and vetoed Macedonia's EU path? And since when does a country build their foreign policy and torment a whole nation on the basis of Facebook?
Tell her and all world leaders how this is irresponsible from a country leadership and not befitted to a state!
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