Македонско питање: култура и политика
The Macedonian Question: Culture and Politics

Summary/Abstract: In the relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria after World War II, one of the central places was occupied by the so-called Macedonian question, i.e. the attitude towards the issue of national determination of the population in the areas of Vardar and Pirin Macedonia and, through it, towards the future of these territories. Immediately after the end of the war, the communist parties of the two countries stood on identical positions: they recognized the existence of the Macedonian people as a separate nation, thereby following the position of the Comintern from 1934, while at the same time agreeing that the Yugoslav and Bulgarian parts of Macedonia should be united into a single entity. In order to prepare for such a unification, Bulgaria initiated a policy of Macedonization in Pirin Macedonia, which implied cultural autonomy and the promotion of the recently standardized Macedonian language.

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