Георги Николов Делчев (1872 – 1903) – политическият войн в българското национално пространство
Georgi Nikolov Delchev (1872 – 1903) – the political warrior in the Bulgarian national space

Summary/Abstract: In the liberation movement of the Macedonian-Adrianople Bulgarians, i.e., in the second stage of the development of the Bulgarian national revolution, Georgi (Gotse) Nikolov Delchev was a classic example of a political warrior. He is the creator of the illegal army of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), he is the universally recognized apostle of the Bulgarians subject to the Ottoman Empire. Everywhere Gotse is the same – as a self sacrificing revolutionary, and as a national leader who knows the heart of his people, and also as an ideologue with geopolitical insights. Until 1944, two generations of Bulgarians carefully preserved the authentic memory of him. Since then, with the imposition of the Serb-communist regime and the creation of the new Macedonian nation within Tito’s Yugoslavia, historical time began to flow backwards for the Bulgarians there. The new realities near Vardar excluded the authentic memory of Gotse Delchev and replaced it with a new, ideologized Macedonian image. That is why the Bulgarian political warrior is actually alive today and continues to fight. This battle will continue to run parallel to the deepening of the political processes in the Republic of Northern Macedonia and its slow break with the communist past. Because Gotze’s personality and work are not subject to compromise formulations, artificial division and historical-documentary falsifications.

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