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"The escalation has not stopped for a long time, at least for 4 years, and there was before that, but it was not displayed because the Bulgarians were used to persevering. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the RSM is so aggressive and insolent, because they are used to the fact that the Bulgarians will swallow all the things that are presented to them. In any case, I see what the situation is - it is more than clear, in the RSM they want to put things on an equal footing, we provoke, but you also provoke," he said the historian Prof. Hristo Matanov in the "Day ON AIR" studio.

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According to him, they have forgotten one of the basic rules of democracy - you may not like something, but you have to tolerate it.

"Apparently those who broke the windows of the cultural clubs are apparently throwing stones for the first time. I watched them. In North Macedonia, they don't care much about who will go to the celebrations for Gotse Delchev, who won't, but they do care about Russian intervention. And in the short term the confrontation is clearly going to continue, there is no indication that it will decrease, they do not understand arguments. Tsar Boris III is a fascist, although it has long been proven that he is not, but what do you say to these people, to whom their only contact with the history is the textbook", emphasized Prof. Matanov on the air of Bulgaria ON AIR.

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He recalled that in the textbooks it is written that the Bulgarians are Tatars, fascists.

"What will be asked of Bulgaria is to react promptly and adequately. This reaction that we see now is semi-adequate, since it is not permanent. We see that there is a reaction when there is an incident, then it dies down. There is no need to return the veto, it is necessary to react as it is now, but this should be a permanent position, since anti-Bulgarianism is a permanent position in the RSM. And within 15 years, the North Macedonians will probably disappear as a community," the historian stressed.

Prof. Hristo Matanov thinks that the Albanians will melt them.

"If you listen to the North Macedonian media, you will see that according to them, Europe supports us and stands behind us, and we think that Europe stands behind them. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle, we must not forget for a moment that we are a member of the EU and our word carries more weight. There are colleagues who think that North Macedonia does not want to join the EU," he added.

According to him, our neighbor very easily succumbs to foreign influence.

"Their policy is to hold on to the North Macedonian identity, it is nurtured in a different way - through history textbooks, the academic community. They have no other choice. It is very difficult to break this stereotype that has been planted for years. In Macedonia, Serbian influence will did for more than 100 years. Bulgaria is isolated from these processes," Prof. Matanov explained.

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