За дейността на така наречения Горноджумайски областен македонски народен театър през 1947–1948 година
The Activity of the So-Called “Gorna Djoumaya District Macedonian National Theatre” in 1947–1948

Summary/Abstract: The claims of the Skopje historiography of the “exclusive success” of the “Macedonian” theatre in the town of Gorna Djoumaya are untrustworthy. They are based on dubious documents and are subjected to the desire to prove the existence of a “Macedonian minority” in Pirin Macedonia. It is the question of one of the elements of the cultural-national autonomy introduced in Pirin Macedonia in 1946–1948, of the failed “Macedonian” season (1947–1948) of the Gorna Djoumaya Theatre – a disgraceful episode in the recent Bulgarian history, the result of the treacherous, anti-Bulgarian and denationalization Macedonianist policy of the Bulgarian Workers’ Party (Communists) (BWP(c)) in that area during this particular period. On the basis of a number of documents from Bulgarian archives is brought to light the truth about the ill-fated “Macedonian” season of this theatre. It is proved that the Skopje envoyswho settled in it turned it into a means of fanning hatred against Bulgaria and the Bulgarian people, into an instrument of discrediting the Bulgarian language. On account of this, its plays were not attended by the population and failed, its actors put up passive or open resistance against its Macedonianist activity, and the only who supported it were Macedonianisticc1lly inspired activists of the, BWP(c). The facts show that this was one of the instances of the refusal of the Bulgarian population in Pirin Macedonia to accept the “cultural” values forcibly imposed on it and alien to its actual national awareness, a fact which predetermined also the failure, mentioned above, of this theatre.

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