There is much the mainstream does not speak of. One of the key topics is the acts of Communism during its “infancy.”
The plan for a Mediterranean ‘exit’
Lenin’s initial doctrine was to either expand via subversion or a straight-out conquest. Joseph Stalin was an even more proponent supporter of these ideas. After the Bolshevik revolution, the Communist regime sought to spread its control to the rest of Europe.
For that purpose, two strategies were implemented. Political influence and the buildup of the infamous Red Army. Stalin despised having to deal with Bosporus canal and wanted to have a direct access to the Mediterranean. For that purpose, he implemented two plans.
The Communist plans
One via his comrade, Josip Tito who sought to create the Balkan Communist Federation. Part of that agenda included the founding of a new “Macedonian” nation, as it would secure access to the Aegean and therefore the Mediterranean.
The second was via the Communist Party of Greece, which in its founding declaration, signed off the Greek Macedonia to the Soviet Union.
This is how the entire “debate” about the nature of the Macedonia came to be. It was always an expansionist plan by the Communist regimes to spread the influence and the buffer zone of the Soviet Iron Curtain.
When World War 2 happened and Stalin did not get the additional lands he sought, the Communists incited a civil war in Greece, immediately after the end of WW2 to bring the entire country under Soviet control. They failed.
Ever since, Greece maintains a law that forbids the Communist Party to ever rise in power. Its leaders know it, which is why they always vote “No” in everything. In other words, they are simply “happy to exist”.
The Vardarska province as… Macedonia
Thus, the only plan that remained was political infiltration. This time, via other parties as well. It is how the entire “Macedonia” subject remained and grew in time. The “Agreement of the Prespes” happened under the leftist government of SYRIZA.
The entire debate was never about history. It was about raw expansionism against other nations. Since Greece has been the cradle of Western civilization, it has become symbolic for Communism to bring that country down. And naturally, those who pay the price are the everyday people. In the end, they become pawns in a game of “silent” war they never asked for. Such is the insidious nature of that regime and this is but one of the aspects of its influence. The rest of it, well, we are experiencing it out in the open. They now seek to make the West appear as the bad guy so that the East gains the "moral superiority" to end the West.