Ivan Mihailov

Ivan Mihailov (bulg.: ???? ????????), also known as Vanche Mihailov (bulg.: ????? ????????), (August 26, 1896, Novo Selo, present-day Republic of Macedonia – September 5, 1990, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization after 1924.

Ivan Mihailov about the developments in Vardar Macedonia after 1944

The following is an excerpt from an article by Ivan Mihaylov:

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"There has been a Macedonian Question only since the Congress of Berlin.

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I have always been part of the Macedonian Liberation Movement but I am a son of the Bulgarian people, just as the Slavs of Macedonia have been Bulgarians for a thousand years.

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For us, a "Macedonian nation" means Yugoslavism and Yugoslavism means imperialism, which aims at snatching Thessaloniki and a part of Bulgaria. In two words: a "Macedonian nation" can mean the addition of one million new Serbs to the Serbian people.

Related Topics:
Thessaloniki - Bulgaria

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There is no narrow nationalism in favour of any nationality within IMRO. When it defends nationalism, it must be understood in the sense that the organisation is against the denationalisation of the ethnicity, whatever it may be.

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In united Europe (if it becomes a reality), Macedonia should be represented by itself, not by Belgrade and Athens, or by anybody else."

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