Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast, Episode 152 – Dardanian Land Acknowledgement

We kinda knew that we are getting close to the point where Macedonians will have to make a US style land acknowledgement to Albanians - as our ancient predecessors to this land - but now it comes with a new twist - Albanians are renaming themselves into Dardanians. This new development comes after an ancient engraved piece of marble was found near Skopje with the words Dardanus - which the Albanians take to mean that the city always was and always will be - Illirian, or Albanian. The drama over Dardanization comes together with another Albanian nationalist push - to create a statelet within Macedonia, with its executive instutions, an assembly, a President, and local powers, inspired by the similar demands from Kosovo with regard to its Serbian minority. As the (nominally) Macedonian element in the Government continues to make concessions, the Albanians are naturally becoming emboldened to press their demands ever further.
Meanwhile, Government officials are busy enriching themselves, with real-estate corruption and contract rigging, but also by trying to take-over entire industries - big ones at that. The Government decided to help out its friends in the industrial bakeries, by giving them energy subsidies, only to use this gift as an excuse to turn on them and try to run their companies - fixing prices and even ordering them to resume production at a loss. The predictable result (at least for the old folks who were here during the 1980ies, and 1990ies) is - you guessed it - bread shortages in the supermarkets.
We cover these news, but also touch on the Bulgarian elections, where Cvetin has a dire prediction from the possible first election victory of a post national, modern style "liberal" party. Tune in for the latest round of messiness from Macedonia.

Music by:

- Mizar (Pocesna strelba - Last salute)

With gratitude to Mark Steyn for giving us the idea for the podcast name