Planovi delovanja Srbije u Staroj Srbiji i Makedoniji i metode njihovog sprovođenja od 1878. do 1884. Godine

Abstract

Everything that had happened to Serbian people during a long period of slavery under Turkish authority, was also being repeated in Old Serbia and Macedonia after Berlin Congress, when The Principality of Serbia became internationally recognized state. Saved archival documents from this period undoubtedly show all the cruelty with which Albanians and Bulgarians, encouraged and helped by Turkish authorities, tortured, killed, burnt, robbed and persecuted Serbs from Old Serbia and Macedonia. This kind of position of Serbian people in Old Serbia and Macedonia obliged Serbia to intensify its state and national political activity with the aim of their protection. Serbian politicians, diplomats, scientists and publicists start dealing more studiously with Old Serbia and Macedonia. At these Serbian areas people are travelling, recording and trading more and more, cherishing the connections among people, and, in many different ways, reviving old Serbian traditions. Thanks to their reports, the real image of state in Old Serbia and Macedonia started to be created in Serbia. Thanks to them, Serbian Government could intervene at great powers in Constantinople in order to protect Serbian people. To save Serbian people from Albanian-Turkish attacks and also from stronger and stronger Bulgarian exzarchian propaganda in Old Serbia and Macedonia, the work plan should have been made, according which, in future, they could work in organized and systematic manner, so that Serbian people could save their national conscience and strengthen their aspiration for national unity and the unification with The Kingdom of Serbia. In April 1883, the commission for plan making was formed. It consisted of educational and public workers, like archimandrites - Nicifor Ducic and Sava Decanac and the professor of Prizen's Gospel-Ðorde Kamperelic. In order to continue the work, at the plan making, the commission should have used all previous experiences in work, and especially the reports about the work of people who had previously been involved in these activities (Miloš S. Milojevic, archimandrites Sava Decanac and Ðorde Kamperelic). Until 1884, lots of suggestions had been made and also the plans about concrete forms of national politics which Serbia could lead in European vilayets of Turkey. In these suggestions and plans, beside statements about difficult position of Serbian people, were also the measures which should be undertaken and their methods for suppressing Albanian-Turkish violence and Bulgarian propaganda.