The Leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) always considered the Macedonian
Question secondary in
comparison to advancing the Socialist revolution in Bulgaria,
the Balkans and the World. It allowed its infatuation with
Internationalism to reach such extremes that in the end the
national interests of the Bulgarian people were sacrificed.
Even within the BCP there was strong opposition to this national nihilism.
This question was pointedly asked at the BRP regional conference in Gorna
Dzumaja (now Blagoevgrad, regional center of Pirin [Bulgarian] Macedonia) by Vladimir Poptomov,
a veteran Communist from Pirin Macedonia, political secretary of the Communist-front
organization IMRO United (1925-1933), an AVNOJ councilman at the Jajce session (1943),
who became a member of the BRP Politburo in 1944:
"Many [Bulgarians] are asking why the Gorna Dzumaja district [Pirin Macedonia] should be
united with Macedonia in Yugoslavia rather than the other way around.
And why aren't the Caribrod and Bosilegrad districts [non-Macedonian areas of
Bulgaria which were allotted to Yugoslavia after World War I] returned to them,
while Macedonia is being demanded?" Poptomov also stated that the Macedonian
nation was free of national oppression in Fatherland Front-governed Bulgaria
and that the question of unification with Vardar Macedonia inside Yugoslavia
was not being raised in Bulgarian Macedonia.
Apostolski et al, Izvori, vol 1, pt 3, p443
The BCP national betrayal is no more apparent than in the three censuses held in
Bulgaria in 1946, 1956 and 1965 which recorded the numbers of
"Macedonian" nationals as 180,000, 187,789 and 8,750 respectively.
These "statistics" have been exploited by Macedonists to
claim that even Bulgaria (more accurately Georgi Dimitrov and
the BCP leaders) had verified the existence of a Macedonian nationality.
Forgotten in all this treachery is the traumatic impact of this action on the people
of the Pirin region who had to disavow their very own nationality, to become something
they were not. Many refused and were sent to concentration camps. How do Macedonists
explain these happenings?
Not shamed by all these previous treasonous actions, members within the BCP continue
to this very day to live "in denial" of their recidivism.
Betrayal of Bulgarian Macedonians by the BCP CONTINUES