The announcement that the Education Ministry is preparing to abolish history as a stand-along class that will be taught in elementary school caused outrage in the public. The announcement was wrestled out of Education Minister Mila Carovska today, at a time when Macedonia is strongly pressured to give up most of its history in favor of neighboring countries like Greece and Bulgaria.

After details of the plan were leaked in the public, Carovska, a far left activist who was part of the Colored Revolution movement which called for Macedonia to renounce much of its history, acknowledged the plan.

Our new concept will mean less individual classes, rolling several classes into one, and more interactive teaching, Carovska said.

Professor Simona Gruevska – Madzoska from the Institute of Macedonian Language revealed the plan to the public. She said that history will be rolled into a broad class called “societal studies”, which will include elements of geography, civics and other classes as well.

This is a plan to quickly do away with the Macedonian national history. This is their greatert reform in the education system – an experiment to cancel history, Gruevska said.

Bulgaria is currently insisting that the newly minted definitions that are put forward under serious pressure, by a committee of historians, are now made widely known, taught and dissiminated in the public, and this can’t be done without major changes in the education system. History professor Todor Cepreganov said that this would mean the end of Macedonian national history.

Will other Balkan nations accept this or is only Macedonia the subject of an experiment? It seems to me that the politicians can’t come up with a solution on their own and are now laying all blame on the history. A nation without history is quick to assimilate and deracinate. Without history, there is no present, no future, just a zombi nation, Cepreganov said.