Spiro Kitinchev

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Spiro Kitinchev
Born1895 (1895)
FPR Yugoslavia
Alma materUniversity of Lausanne
Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki
Parent
  • Gyore Kitinchev (father)

Spiro Kitinchev (born 1895 in

Macedonian Bulgarian writer, activist, and politician during the Second World War in Yugoslav Macedonia.[1][2][3]

Biography

During his teenage years Spiro attended the

Paris Peace Conference
, the MYSRO issued appeale in favor of an independent multiethnic Macedonian state, based on the principle of the Swiss Confederation.

After 1919, Kitinchev returned to Skopje, then part of

IMRO regional committee. During 1930s Kitinchev was arrested several times by the Serbian authorities.[7] In 1936, together with Dimitar Chkatrov and Dimitar Gyuzelov, he joined the democratic organization MANAPO. In 1930s a more homogeneous generation was growing up in Vardar Macedonia, which resisted serbianisation, but which also made it clear that the Bulgarian national idea was no more the only option for them.[citation needed
]

During the

pro-Bulgarian sentiments still prevailed. There is a no doubt that the Bulgarians were greeted as liberators. The Macedonian national identity then hardly existed.[8][9][10][11][12]

In the early September 1944 Bulgaria ordered its troops to prepare for withdrawal from former Yugoslavia and on 8 September, the Bulgarians changed sides and declared war on Germany. On the same day

Macedonism in the area.[14]

Bulgarian nationalist and Bulgarian fascist occupiers collaborator.[16] Kitinchev was sentenced to death, but later this sentence was changed to 20-year prison. He died in Idrizovo prison after a year of tuberculosis and torture.[17]

See also

Literature


References

  1. ^ Ivan Katardžiev, Macedonia and its neighbours: past, present, future, Menora, 2001, p. 178.
  2. ^ Hristo Adonov-Poljanski, Documents on the Struggle of the Macedonian People for Independence and a Nation-state: From the end of World War One to the creation of a nation-state, Volume 2, Univerzitet "Kiril i Metodij", Skopje. Kultura, 1985, p. 476.
  3. ^ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 78.
  4. ^ Минчев, Димитър. Българските акционни комитети в Македония - 1941 г. София, Македонски научен институт, 1995. с. 26.
  5. ^ Николов, Борис. ВМОРО – псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.88.
  6. ^ Църнушанов, Коста. Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, София, 1992, стр. 152.
  7. ^ Михайлов, Иван. Спомени, том III, Луврен, 1967, стр. 363-376, в: Билярски, Цочо. Подвигът на Мара Бунева (съкратено издание), Анико, София, 2010, стр.28.
  8. ISBN 978-0-19-924409-6
    . Unlike the Slovene and Croatian identities, which existed independently for a long period before the emergence of SFRY, Macedonian identity and language were themselves a product federal Yugoslavia, and took shape only after 1944. Again unlike Slovenia and Croatia, the very existence of a separate Macedonian identity was questioned—albeit to a different degree—by both the governments and the public of all the neighboring nations (Greece being the most intransigent)
  9. ISBN 0-8014-8736-6
    . The key fact about Macedonian nationalism is that it is new: in the early twentieth century, Macedonian villagers defined their identity religiously—they were either "Bulgarian," "Serbian," or "Greek" depending on the affiliation of the village priest. While Bulgarian was most common affiliation then, mistreatment by occupying Bulgarian troops during WWII cured most Macedonians from their pro-Bulgarian sympathies, leaving them embracing the new Macedonian identity promoted by the Tito regime after the war.
  10. ISBN 0-691-04356-6
    , pp. 65-66.
  11. ISBN 1-85065-492-1
    , p. 67.
  12. ISBN 978-1-85065-238-0
    , p. 101.
  13. ^ Todor Chepreganov et al., History of the Macedonian People, Institute of National History, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje,(2008) p. 254.
  14. ISBN 9780817948832
    , p. 189.
  15. ISBN 0208008217
    , Chapter 9: The encouragement of Macedonian culture.In 1945
  16. ISBN 1443888494
    , p. 293.
  17. ^ Гоцев, Димитър. Новата национално-освободителна борба във Вардарска Македония 1944-1991 г., Македонски научен институт, София, 1998, глава Първите политически процеси.
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