Excerpts from “Face Turned to the Truth”:

“The Macedonian people in their long history have had only twice the right to free expression through referenda – in 1991, when we voted on an independent Macedonia, and in 1871, when the sultan’s decree also appointed a free referendum and when the Macedonian people accepted the Bulgarian exarchy as theirs with a majority of two-thirds. What shall we do with this nation? Why are we ashamed of and run away from the fact that all which is a positive Macedonian revolutionary tradition originates precisely from the exarchal part of the Macedonian people? We won’t be saying any new truth if we mention the fact that Gotse Delchev, and Dame Gruev, and Gyorche Petrov, and Pere Toshev, should I name them all, were teachers of the Bulgarian exarchy in Macedonia…”

“About a hundred years ago the Serbian philologist Novakovic said that the creation of a Macedonian language should be sustained but that at least a third of it should be Serbian words so that one day an assimilation could be done. This has been fully accomplished today. We’ve accepted almost the entire Serbian alphabet and a big portion of Serbian vocabulary, thus denouncing our own millennial tradition.”





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Who is Lyubcho Georgievski?

Lyubcho Georgievski was born in Shtip on Jan 17, 1966 and until his 18th year lived with his parents in Delchevo, a city near the Bulgarian border. His father, Tome, was for many years director of the Culture Center there, and his mother, Vera, was a worker.

He graduated in “General and Comparative Literature” with the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. At 32 he became the Prime Minister of Macedonia, at 39 he received, together with his wife Snezhana, Bulgarian citizenship in reverence to his ancestral roots. After his first book of poetry “City” (1991) he published two more. On Jan 31, 2007, Publishing House “Balkani” presented the book “City” under number 40 of its prestigious “Balkan Library” series in Bulgarian in the “Sulza i Smiah” Theater. The book attracted great readers’ attention, especially after the recital performance of the actor Pero Temelkovski. The new documentary book “Face Turned to the Truth” is the eleventh consecutive title in the other famous Publishing House “Balkani” series of essays and selected interviews.