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Milto V'chkov: Two months after reuniting I still called my mum "aunty"

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The evacuation of around 25,000 children by the partisans from Northern Greece to Eastern Europe remains one of the most controversial issues in the modern European history. Macedonian, Milto V'chkov (78) from village of Setina, in Aegean Macedonia (Northern Greece), who has been leaving in Australia for a few decades now, is one of them. In an interview for SBS Macedonian, Milto recalls the pain inflicted on him following the separation from his parents at the age of seven, as well as the hard moments he endured when he reunited with them many years later.


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By Maja B.Talevska

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The evacuation of around 25,000 children by the partisans from Northern Greece to Eastern Europe remains one of the most controversial issues in the modern European history. Macedonian, Milto V'chkov (78) from village of Setina, in Aegean Macedonia (Northern Greece), who has been leaving in Australia for a few decades now, is one of them. In an interview for SBS Macedonian, Milto recalls the pain inflicted on him following the separation from his parents at the age of seven, as well as the hard moments he endured when he reunited with them many years later.


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