From: lyngos2@aol.com (LYNGOS 2)
Newsgroups: alt.news.macedonia
Subject: FR: LYNGOS  RE:  FLORINIAN   NAMES
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Message-ID: <1998041321172701.RAA10770@ladder03.news.aol.com>
Date: 13 Apr 1998 21:17:27 GMT
 

Last days of  April 1941. The German army enters in Florina, while the Bulgarians  are establishing their quarters 15 kilometers outside the city. The German superior officer is Kirsling, and for the Bulgars, the official ""contac officer"" is Kaltsef, with Marinof , Blantenkof,  next to him, and translators Viktora, and Nikolae. They arrived in Florina during the morning, they stay all day singing ""Siouma Maritsa"" and they leave usually during evening,  while their supporters are going all over town propagandizing, and challenging. They tried to take over and enter the Church-Mitropolis of St. Pantelehmon, but the local population, with memories from 1897,  and with sticks of wood do not allow them even to enter in it.

In the next few months, they changed political agenda and they are giving food to the local population, while they replace the existing local  community counsils of the villages, with their own people , from lists brought with them for mother Bulgaria.

They stay in Monastiri, and they are offering the Bulgarian ""Nationality"" immediately to the ones just asking for it. ..............forget about Makedonian nationality. Our villagers are suffering like never before, the situation in the city becomes unbearable.

And this is the time when another Club, like the  Greek Club or Kazino of 1850,  accepts the challenge of the Bulgars, and decides to fight them. The new name, ARISTOTELHS. It was the macchine behind the Makedonians that did not want the Hellenian land to become Bulgarian. It's  name and existance, is not a secret to anyone. But maybe the names of  the Governing Bodies and it's members during the dark hours of the NAZI's and the BULGARIAN's,  they are. So for the ones out there that never became familiar with the Makedonians from Florina here they are:

First Governing Body  30 July 1941.
President..........................Dimtsis  Anastasios.
General Secretary.............Tyrpenou Eyaggelos
Casier..............................Goumperis Ilias
Administrator.....................Marousis Konstantinos
Dean.................................Xatzhlias Sokratis
Members...........................Patsouris Mixahl
.........................................Samaras Pantelis.

Around the end of March of 1942 the pressure and challenges is becoming very clear to everyone.And with  the decision #15 the first Governing Body gives it's resignation.

The then Prefect K. Mponis  is appointing the new Administration ( without elections)  as follows:

President.......................Triantafyllidhs  Steryios
Vice-President................Dafilhs Ioannhs
General Secretary...........Tsapanos Sofoklis
Cashier-Administrator......Simou Lazaros
Counselors......................Vasileiou Tryfon
                                       Liotshs Dimitrios
                                       Loukidhs Nikolaos

On November the 11th  1942 we have the first real elections for ARISTOTELHS.
The new Administration  is the following:

President........................Tsapanos Sofoklis
Vice-President.................Apostolidhs Nikolaos
General Secretary...........Theodosiou Georgios
Cashier...........................Megalomastoras Georgios
Dean...............................Xaris Anestis
Administrator...................Papadafos Konstantinos
Counselors......................Vasileiou Tryfon

For the Disciplinary Counsil were elected:
Dimtsis                  Anastasios
Keramitshs             Georgios
Xatzhlias                Sokraths

Those were the leaders of the  Makedonian people against the NAZIS and the BULGARIANS during the difficult and heroic years . They were the ones that organized all the other  REAL MAKEDONIANS against the Bulgars, in Edessa, Kastoria, and all of our villages .

On June 27th 1943 the choir of Aristotelhs  (120 members), gives three concerts in Thessaloniki. All three begin with the National Anthem. Talking about resistance..............All the Germans and the Bulgars around, while the Makedonian boys and girls from Florina were challenging them with our National Anthem .................................................

And  the ones that died for the dream of a Free Makedonia From the Bulgars and the Germans,  during those years  members of ARISTOTELHS ?  Here are their names:

1.  Vafeiadhs..........Lazaros             (son of Georgios).......Executed by the Germans   3--3--42
2.  Vafeiadhs..........Petros               (son of Kon/nou)........ executed by the Germans            1--4--43
3.  Grhgoriou Epameinondas             (son of Stefanou)       Executed by anarchists around Kozani April 1943
4.  Thomaidis Theodoros director of the choir ( son of Vasileios)  Executed by hanging by the Germans outside Kladoraxh    9--8--1943
5.  Markou Petros ..............................(son  of Lazaros)  high-school student executed by the Bulgarians in Prespa  January of 1944.
6.  Xatzhprodromou Symeon ...............(son of Dionysios) high-school student executed by the Bulgarians in Prespa 1944
7.  Tanos Dimitrios..............................(son of Periklis) high-school student executed by the Bulgarians in Prespa January of 1944
8.  Loukidhs Georgios...........................(Son of Pantelis) high-school student executed by the Bulgars in Prespa January of 1944
9.  Stefanidhs Laskaris........................(son of Ilias) high-school student executed by the Bulgars in Prespa January of 1944
10.  Passias Pantelis .....................(son of Naoum) high-school student executed by Anarchists in Mpoufi  February of 1944
11.  Vamvakas Xarhs.......................(son of Ilias) high-school student, died after the Germans burned him while alive, in Valakarda of Grevena July of 1944
12.  Datserhs Emmanouhl...................(son of Georgios) , killed by Anarchists in Korestia November of 1944
13.  Varvarhggos Spyros ...................(son of Dimitrios) higschool teacher, assasinated by Anarchists in Florina January of 1945
14.  Anagnostakhs Alexios ..................(son of Xenofonta),  killed in action in Ahdonoxori of Sidhrokastron  3--11--48.
15.  Gillou Argyrios ....................(son of Theodoros), killed in action against the Communists  around Serres on 4--4--1947............(all dates in European calendar).
16.  Panagiotou  Ioannhs.
17.  Gazinos Konstantinos...................executed by the Bulgars in Prespa, January of 1944.
18.  Sexidhs   Georgios.........................executed by the Bulgars in Prespa, January of 1944.

Those are the names that I have in the books in here . As you can see still today we are reffering to the ones that tried to have Florina by the force of the guns, as  ""THE BULGARS"".  The anarchists were members of the myriad leftists groups, after the "internal" war of the Communists. Most of the killing took place in the late years of the German occupation, once the Bulgars and the Communists realized that they were losing the game. January 1944 wasn't a good month up there in Prespa.

Many of ARISTOTELHS members, are bearing names same as the "Greek Club"" or Kazino, and/or names of people who fought for a Free Makedonia first  from the Turks,  then from the Bulgarians, later from the German-Bulgarians, and today we are fighting against  the Gypsies of SKOPIA  dreaming of an Aegean Makedonia, with it's capital Solun. ARISTOTELHS is still in Florina and waiting for you.

Regards.....LYNGOS 2@aol,com
George Sofoklis Tsapanos
Regards to all.......L.
 

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