Talk:Stoyan Christowe

Did Christowe changed his identity?

In his book "This is my country", that is de facto his autobiography, which was published in 1938, he described himself as a Bulgarian from Macedonia. Check in the book itself, on p. 262, as well here in Time Magazine and here in Kirkus Reviews. According to Francisco Javier from the Departamento de Filología Románica, Filología Eslava y Lingüística General, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Stojan Hristov, known as the spelling of Stoyan Christowe (1898-1995), born in a Bulgarian village in the region of Thessaloniki, came to the US in 1911, and was a correspondent for the Chicago Daily News newspaper in the Balkans since the mid-twenties, fell within the political life of Vermont and since 1944 was attracted by the postwar Tito's Macedonism (traveled to Yugoslavia in 1980). 88.203.200.74 (talk) 11:52, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Stoyan Christowe’s case is a very clear example of how “Macedonian bulgarism” was artificial and unnatural. Stoyan Christowe and his parents were educated at Exarchist schools – the core of the Bulgarian propaganda. He was a child - product of the Bulgarian propaganda and considered himself Bulgarian by birth until WWII. But he was never a Bulgarian patriot. Christowe never loved Bulgaria as much as he loved Macedonia. He was a Macedonian patriot, and as soon as the Macedonian nation-state was established, he declared himself an ethnic Macedonian. Iordan666 (talk) 01:10, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

During the 20th century, Slavo-Macedonian national feeling has shifted. At the beginning of the 20th century, Slavic patriots in Macedonia felt a strong attachment to Macedonia as a multi-ethnic homeland. They imagined a Macedonian community uniting themselves with non-Slavic Macedonians... Most of these Macedonian Slavs also saw themselves as Bulgarians. By the middle of the 20th. century, however Macedonian patriots began to see Macedonian and Bulgarian loyalties as mutually exclusive. Regional Macedonian nationalism had become ethnic Macedonian nationalism... This transformation shows that the content of collective loyalties can shift: patriots can manipulate multi-cultural regional loyalties to generate new ethnic sentiments... Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Ethnologia Balkanica Series, Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, LIT Verlag Münster, 2010, ISBN 3825813878, p. 127. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.16.193.70 (talk) 05:11, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Page exapansion

The page has been expanded. Feedback is welcome.MACassist (talk) 14:42, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

I have removed the section controversy. It was redundant. The bulk of the Macedonian Slavs have changed their identity during the first half of the 20th century, but that issue is a subject of other articles. It is needless to add similar sections in all articles related to every Macedonian Slav, who have lived around the middle of the 20th century. One sentence on that issue is enough. I will just add in See also a link to the article Macedonian nationalism. 88.203.200.74 (talk) 06:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I've restored the controversy section as Macedonian/Bulgarian identity is a major source of controversy for this historical figure, enough so to warrant its own section. I've also moved the page to Stoyan Christowe as that is his American name. MACassist (talk) 15:26, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

The section contradicts the sources and the articles in Wikipedia as Macedonian nationalism and Macedonism. It is simmply manipulation. For example the created in the 11 th century Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid is linked to the modern Macedonian Orthodox Church. Also, there was no reason or consensus for removing the tex about Cristove shifting identity at the bottom. 212.5.158.27 (talk) 18:01, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

There are several interpretations on the issue of Macedono-Bulgarianism and the section named Controversy reflects the complexity of the issue and the myriad of different interpretations and scholarly studies. It's best to keep the controversial aspects in their own section so that may be fairly presented. MACassist (talk) 21:30, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

I also think the entire "Controversy" section is redundant. The issues are discussed at length in other articles. Why should we have the same text, or a rather biased and unfounded version of the same text, repeated all over Wikipedia?--Laveol ^T 11:49, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Christowe is an important historical figure, for whom there are certain controversial aspects, hence the controversy section. If you think there is a more balanced way to present the information, please advise.MACassist (talk) 14:58, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

The shift of Macedonian Slavs' identity was described as in scientific literature. Academic source added. Incorrect and biased text removed. 212.5.158.17 (talk) 14:01, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

The page should reflect only hard facts and not interpretations. As states by one of the contributors above, the issues are discussed in other articles and biased texts should not be part of factual Wikipedia pages.

The page should reflect only hard facts and not interpretations. As states by one of the contributors above, the issues are discussed in other articles and biased texts should not be part of factual Wikipedia pages. We should let the page rest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PavlinaPro (talk • contribs) 12:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC) ::::::::::Exactly. Do not remove or push at the bottom hard facts. 88.203.200.74 (talk) 13:43, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

The definition of "origin states that" is means: the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.

synonyms: beginning, start, commencement, origination, genesis, birth, dawning, dawn, emergence, creation, birthplace, cradle;

The section with references of 1,2,3,4,5,6, refers to "interpretations" not hard fact, which this page should contain.

This is why there is a controversy section, which should contain the many different opinions and interpretations, not hard facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PavlinaPro (talk • contribs)

Was Stoyan Christowe's "This is my country" FDR's favorite?

It has often been written about in the Macedonian media, where it is sometimes mentioned that the novel "This is my country" was a favorite of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But nowhere is a source cited for this claim. Namely, to whom Roosevelt said this. Some of the Macedonian media also claim that this book was on the table when President Franklin Roosevelt died. Some media claim that the book was found on the office table in the White House of Franklin Roosevelt, and some that at the hour of his death, the first thing they found on Roosevelt's desk was "This is my homeland". None of the media cites a source for this claim. President Roosevelt died in his "Little White House" in the town of Warm Springs in the state of Georgia. His home is now a state museum with its own website. Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out how reliable the information was that Roosevelt even owned this book. There are photos of the home on the website. All rooms in the home have been left in the same condition as the day Roosevelt died. There are bookcases in the museum as well as a list of all the books in the museum. I contacted the museum and was told that that book is not in the bookshelves, nor in the list of books. Roosevelt's home is in the town of Hyde Park in the state of New York, now his Presidential Library. It is President Roosevelt's personal library of approximately 22,000 volumes. The library also has a website with the option to search the titles in it. If you search by author (Stoyan Christowe) you will get 0 results, which means that there are no books by this author. But if you search by title ("This is my country"), which is also the title of Stojan Hristov's novel, you will get one result, but here it is an illustrated atlas of America ("A pictorial map of the United States "), and not Stojan Hristov's novel. Then it is possible that someone read somewhere that in Roosevelt's library there is the title "This is my country" and assumed it was Stoyan Christowe's book, not knowing that it was a completely different book, an atlas of America. GMitrevski (talk) 01:01, 25 April 2023 (UTC)