A Russian documentary says Macedonia is home to the Slavic alphabet

 

 "One Faith, One Language" is the title of a Russian documentary that provoked violent reactions in Bulgaria. The homeland of the Slavic alphabet, according to the film, is Macedonia, according to a documentary made with the help of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Northern Macedonia (RSM). The film erases Bulgaria from the map of Slavic culture and says that the brothers Cyril and Methodius have nothing to do with Bulgaria, which was not even presented as a literary and Orthodox center in the Balkans in the IX and X centuries, writes the Skopje electronic publication "MKD" in material presented without editorial intervention.

 The screenwriter and director of the film is Elena Mironenko. The film was screened on December 22nd at the RSM Film Festival, called The Shroud of the Virgin. According to the data, the film was named "Best Television Film of a Regional Television Studio" at the XXVI International Film and Television Festival "Radonezh" in Moscow. The Protection of the Mother of God festival screened documentaries and feature films on cultural and spiritual heritage and humanity, as well as historical and biographical films from the RSM, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and France.

 The film "One Faith, Language" says that the brothers Cyril and Methodius have nothing to do with Bulgaria, which was not even presented as a literary and Orthodox center in the Balkans in the ninth and tenth centuries.

The film shows a map of Southeast Europe from the IX century, on which Bulgaria is not even marked. Apart from the words "Macedonia is the birthplace of the Slavic alphabet", the narrator says that all ancient spiritual texts of Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Macedonia are written in Church Slavonic, which originates from Macedonia.

The authors of the film follow the path of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius. They began with the journey of Cyril and Methodius in 861, after which they reportedly set out for the Khazars and remained in the present-day Ukrainian city of Kherson for two years. The film also shows visits to the churches and monasteries "St. Kliment Ohridski ”,“ St. Naum Ohridski ”,“ St. Prohor Pczynski "and" St. Basil of Ostrog "in Montenegro.

According to the film, there was a Russian alphabet before the Glagolitic alphabet, and in Kherson the two brothers got acquainted with this Russian alphabet because they needed it to create the new alphabet. Thus, it is assumed that Cyril and Methodius personally laid the foundations of the "Third Rome" - Moscow.

"One Faith, One Language" tells the story of Clement and Nahum, who founded the first large Slavic university in Ohrid. In Bulgaria they react that there is no mention at all of Tsar Boris I, who baptized the Bulgarians in 864 and introduced the Old Slavonic language. The film says that "from Ohrid comes the Orthodox faith, which united the Slavic peoples - Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Macedonians."

 It is mentioned that Clement and Nahum only "pass" in the then center of the Bulgarian kingdom - Pliska. Although it is a fact that Nahum remained in Pliska, where he laid the foundations of the Preslav Literary School, and Clement was sent as a missionary to the Kutmitsevica area in Macedonia, where he founded the Ohrid Literary School. Later, Nahum came to Ohrid.

The narrator also says: "The good news that came to Russia through Macedonia, then in the XIII and XIV centuries returned there with Russian liturgical books and thus closes the circle of protection of the Slavic countries, provided by Russia. "Cyril and Methodius built our unity, and now someone has declared war on the Orthodox Slavic peoples," the film says.