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A reproduction of the Athens' newspaper “Sphera” of September 1, 1959, which
published a detailed story of the ceremony which took place in the village
of Atrapos (Krapeshina), accompanied by a photograph of the moment when the
villagers --- mostly women and children --- took "the oath before God" to
cease speaking Bulgarian. The uniformed man in front is the field-guard. The
oath, marked on the side, reads as follows:
"I do promise before God, the people, and the official state authorities,
that from this day on I shall cease to speak the Slav dialect which gives
ground for misunderstandings to the enemies of our country -- the Bulgarians
-- and that I will speak always and everywhere the official language of our
fatherland, the Greek language, in which the Holy Gospel is written.”
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