Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) public broadcaster, “Macedonian” Radio and Television, MRTV, spent 1,8 million euros during three years producing documentaries reflecting the ideological idées fixes of the former ruling right-wing VMRO DPMNE party, BIRN analysis of the production deals made in 2013, 2014 and 2015 shows.
MRTV’s legal duty to cooperate with independent production houses in creating documentaries was used for the mass production of historic documentaries that – like the government-sponsored faux-baroque revamp of the capital, Skopje 2014 – were intended to revise the nation’s understanding of the past.
This was to be done from the viewpoint of “a biblical nation” that drew continuity from the ancient era of Alexander the Great, through the era of Byzantine era missionaries, all the way to the Anti-Fascist fight during World War II and the declaration of independence in the early 1990s.
As with the architectural principles behind Skopje 2014, these documentaries were heavily mentored by the former government of Nikola Gruevski, who was ousted this May after 11 years in power.
This goal becomes apparent, among other things, from some of the wiretapped conversations released by the opposition back in 2015.
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