Thank you for that.
If he’s Greek, that’s who should be celebrating his history.
I agree with you in principle, that if a person doesn’t have anything to do with your history than you shouldn’t be building statues in their honour.
Actually I’m not saying “ if a person doesn’t have anything to do with your history than you shouldn’t be building statues in their honour.”
Alex ruled over a kingdom that once held part of what is now Northern Macedonia and he’s kind of well-known, so it makes sense to celebrate him.
however Northern Macedonia is looking for a past, kind of like Slovakia — FYROM is actually Bulgarian in ethnicity and language and was cut off by the creation of Yugoslavia.
It has no self-identity yet.
kind of like Moldova which is part of Bessarabia.
Slovakia is similar, though not the same - they were dominated by Magyars, Czechs and Poles for centuries culturally and in the case of Magyars politically that they have not had a chance to develop their own high culture and they have no past to harken back to.
The Ukrainians aren’t in the same boat as they can point back to Kyivan Rus and to the Hetmanate