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Jun 4, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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The absolute state of TRAD accounts these days. Really, what’s trad about them? Image
Why do they get so many likes? Braindead people here Image
Wow. Not dispelling any prejudices with this post Image
Go outside Image
Go back to 4chan Image
Low effort homoeroticism. Are you sure you’re not gay? Image
You’re not trad you’re just a pervert Image
Explain to me what is trad about this?? Go on, try Image
Don’t know how the casual racism adds to the TRAD aesthetic Image
Why did they feel the need to add that? Image
This definitely isn’t TRAD Image
How does this post get so many likes every time it’s posted?? And it’s posted like once a week too. FFS Image

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THE STUPID AMOUNT OF STATUES IN SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA 🇲🇰

Skopje, North Macedonia on first appearance is an uninteresting though not terrible Balkan city. If you visit this is probably a fair description BUT it doesn’t quite capture the most engaging aspect of the city which is the absurd number of statues it has - for whatever reason there are literally hundreds of statues of different historical figures in the city centre. Skopje’s architects seem to have gone out of their way to include every even tangentially related to modern or historical Hellenistic Macedonia named historical figure on Wikipedia. Even the Wikipedia entries that only have two lines. And not even just the historical figures from Macedonia either, apparently also any historical figure of note who passed through the territory on horseback once. I don’t want to say modern day North Macedonia formerly the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a made-up country that exists because Serbia and Bulgaria couldn’t equitably settle a territory dispute but you do kind of wonder why modern Macedonians felt like they had to erect all these statues. Was it an insecurity about their own identity? Look, I am not categorically saying it was an insecurity about their own identity, a felt need to embark on a project of national identity creation or whatever, but you would be hard pressed to find this many statues in the centre of the capital of even the world’s most chauvinistic country. I’ve been to Pyongyang and I don’t recall it having as many statues

I consider myself fairly well-educated (you can agree or disagree, up to you) so I made a point of walking along the bases of all the statues to see how many I recognised. Starts off well enough - a few statues of Alexander the Great and Philip II of Macedon. Okay, not really Slavic were they but we’ll accept the framing for argument’s sake, fair enough. Then we get to various saints, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, Saint Clement of Ohrid… Okay, again fair enough. Justinian I - was he Macedonian? Had to look that up. Turns out he was born in the Roman province of Dardania, near modern day Skopje. He was a Latin-speaking Roman though. Maybe we can let that one slide. Samuel of Bulgaria, the first Tsar of the Bulgarian Empire, had his court centred at Ohrid. Why not? Serbian King Stefan Dušan - well he was born in Belgrade but he did conquer Macedonia from the Byzantines and move his capital to Skopje. Then a few Maceondian nationalist figures you may not know like Goce Delčev and Dame Gruev. Mostly passable but these are just the A-listers

Then we start to get a bit more silly. Lots of statues associated with the Argead dynasty of Macedon - Caranus, Perdiccas I, Alexander I, Amyntas III, Olympia, Parmenion, Perseus… already this is a bit much. Very autistic hyper-focus completions brain. They throw in an aborted-looking Achilles too at the end presumably just for a laugh. Then, lots of various obscure Slavic tribal leaders, I didn’t really know any of these - Prebond, Hacon, Petar Delyan, Georgi Voiteh, Ivats… who? You can look them up. Many were resistance heroes against the Byzantines, not even against the Turks. Various other medieval figures I won’t name, was really having to consult Wikipedia a lot. A few other saints besides the major names above like Saint Joachim Osogovski, Saint Prohor Pčinjski, Saint Gavril Lesnovski, others… again, no I did not know who these people were

(Please note most of these statues are displayed right next to each other along bridges in the very centre of Skopje. Also note that these statues are rarely of the best quality, a few even look appreciably shoddy. You remember that botched Christiano Ronaldo statue from a few years ago? Some look a little bit like that, very disjointed proportions and blocky Nintendo 64 faces)

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Then we get to more modern figures. Lots of Macedonian ‘resistance’ figures (to be fair every Eastern European countries has a lot of statues of these kinds of figures); Karpoš, Pitu Guli, Hristo Tatarčev… I didn’t know any of these people either but in just skimming their biographies their profiles and achievements would get more and more obscure the further along the bridge you went. ‘Assistant Commander’ ‘Pamphleter’ etc. Again, I’m not going to list them all

The most obscure statues are found on the ‘bridge of artists’ - they really probably put the ‘Who?’ in ‘Who’s Who?’. As an aside, I’m not saying painters or poets or singers etc are illegitimate subjects for statuary and I’m sure that if you were actually Macedonian you might recognise a few or even most of them BUT I will say that when I went on some of their Wikipedia pages to find out who they were they would have like two lines descriptions. Made a point of going on their Macedonian language pages too and in some cases, again, two lines. I’ll just give you some names for effect, I didn’t know any and I am sure you probably don’t either; Toše Proeski, Trajko Prokopiev, Grigor Prličev, Petre Prličko, Kočo Racin etc… in short there are a lot of these statues, the broader point in this sense the really silly number of statues. It’s bug collecting with statues - this is probably just what ‘weaponised autism’ looks like in the Balkans of course. Nationalism as your special autistic obsession. Apparently the entire cost of installing all of these statues was over €600 million

Actually in modern Macedonian politics the policy of promoting ancient Macedonian revivalism as integral to modern Macedonian identity - and especially where it was lead by the right wing nationalist VMRO-DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) governments between 2006 and 2017 - is known as ‘Antiquization’. Which is to say, it has been deliberate Macedonian government policy to ‘imply’ a cultural and ethnic continuity with ancient Macedonia. Is this ‘retardrightism’? You decide. Either way, this has created considerable tensions with Greece and Macedonia’s minorities (Albanians, Turks, Serbs, Aromanians etc) as well as between the Macedonians themselves. Less nationalistic Macedonians, whatever ‘nationalistic’ means in the context of modern Macedonia, often regard the statuary as ridiculous. The VMRO-DPMNE still continue to win elections regardless

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You can sit in a cafe next to the river in Skopje during the summer and it is… ‘nice enough’. Ohrid is a better city for tourism though, lake is very beautiful and there are a lot of hiking trails around it. Nice bars along lakefront you can mingle with Eastern Euro tourists in Image
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