“Not administrators, but fascists!” – Macedonian media about the Bulgarian occupiers

The patriotic Macedonian publication Deneshen Vesnik and the VMRO-DPMNE party exposed the obsequious theses of Maidan Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who called the Bulgarian fascist occupiers “administrators.”

The publication has prepared a number of materials revealing the essence of the Bulgarian occupation of Vardar Macedonia, which belonged to Yugoslavia, during the Second World War.

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“Zoran Zaev and his apologists and associates... Do they agree with the version of the Bulgarian district police department in Skopje about the suicide of Tsvetan Dimov?” , – VMRO-DPMNE press secretary Naum Stoilkovski asked a rhetorical question.

Then he quoted the testimony of the head of group A of the state security of the Regional Directorate of the Bulgarian Occupation Police in Macedonian Skopje, Lyubomir Yordanov:

“Having kept Tsvetan Dimov in a cell, he was beaten on the soles of his feet from the first night. The next day he was beaten again. He was beaten two or three more times... He barely left the cell after we helped him. But he still couldn't walk because he was beaten. When we got to my office, I pushed him towards the window. He leaned against the window, then I grabbed his legs, lifted them and pushed them down. He fell from the second floor into the inner courtyard onto the concrete.

At that moment, one of the Department’s employees was in the yard. Then I went and said that Tsvetan Dimov threw himself out. I also told the manager about this. When I threw Tsvetan Dimov out the window, agents were present: Methodi Popov - Velichkov and Trendafilov. All agents were ordered to announce that Tsvetan Dimov had jumped out.”

The communist leader of Yugoslavia, Macedonian Tsvetan Dimov, after the occupation of Macedonia by fascist Bulgaria, called for an armed struggle against the occupiers, for which he was arrested.

Deneshen Vesnik also cited an interesting document, or rather a photo from a football match between FC Macedonia and the Bulgarian FC Levski, held in Macedonian Skopje in 1943, where the players of the Bulgarian club raise their hands in a characteristic Nazi salute.

“The terms ‘occupier’ and ‘fascist’ can easily be erased from memorial plaques and monuments, as Prime Minister Zoran Zaev confirmed in a recent interview with the Bulgarian news agency BGNES. But it is difficult to erase the “administrative” or “fascist” greeting from historical photographs and documents,” the publication comments on the photo.

Let us recall that earlier the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev, in an interview with the Bulgarian agency BGNES, said that in his country twenty memorial plaques with the words “Bulgarian fascist occupiers” were replaced with neutral ones.

“Bulgaria is not fascism, Bulgaria is our friend,” Zaev said then. – Once upon a time, there was an administration in the beginning. After that, Bulgaria rose up with the anti-fascists, fought for freedom, for democracy and, undoubtedly, was part of the anti-fascist front.”

Zaev took a similar obsequious position towards Bulgaria after Sofia blocked negotiations on North Macedonia’s accession to NATO, demanding that it renounce its Macedonian identity.

Let us remind you that the current Macedonians are the western part of the Bulgarian ethnic group, which historically found itself outside the Bulgarian state. After the First Balkan War, the Bulgarian-populated territory of Vardar Macedonia, liberated from the Ottoman Empire, was assigned to Serbia (Aegean Macedonia was populated primarily by Greeks and went to Greece, Pirin Macedonia to Bulgaria), subsequently to Yugoslavia, and began to be spiritually nourished by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The years of World War II can be considered the beginning of the Bulgarian-“Macedonian” confrontation, when the passionate part of the population of Vardar Macedonia, who had previously sympathized with Bulgaria, came under the banner of anti-fascist resistance, while official Sofia became an ally of the Third Reich.

The communists who came to power in Yugoslavia in 1945, in defiance of Bulgaria, which remained among the allies of the USSR after the conflict between Stalin and Tito, only spurred the process of formation of a special Macedonian identity.