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Политическият съдебен процес срещу ВМРО в Скопие през 1947 г.
The political process against IMRO in Skopje in 1947

Author(s): Dimitar Gocev
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Македонски научен институт
Keywords: Macedonia; History; Bulgaria;

Summary/Abstract: This article is about the dramatic events that developed after the second fall of Vardar Macedonia under the occupation of the Serbian communists in October and November of 1944. The new authority in power put the Bulgarian nationality, language and history as outlaw values. The main purpose of this article is to provide an overview of these tragic events, mainly on how the „political thesis" for Macedonianism as a state policy was applied in Vardar Macedonia after 1945. In result of the anti-Bulgarian policy, as witnessed Vasil Hadzhikimov from Stip, one of the main opponents of the thesis for a „Macedonian nation", from 1944 to 1991, in Vardar Macedonia some 700 political trials were initiated against intellectuals, young people and other bright Bulgarians, at which death sentences were ruled. In the same period some 23 000 people were announced missing and other 120 000 passed through the prisons and the camps of the Tito's Yugoslavia. Around 180 000 were forced or made to emigrate in different parts of the world. The central place in this tragic scenario was occupied by the Serbian- Macedonianist process against IMRO in the end of March 1947. This was the biggest political process against the Bulgarian political elite, which fought for the recognition of the Bulgarian nationality, for the people's identification as Bulgarians and for the establishment of an independent Macedonia under the protection of the then Great Powers.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-58
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian