METODI SHATOROV

ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY, ONE PARTY

Therefore, we may all take special notice that more than 60 years ago our patriot and Internationalist, Metodi Shatorov (later known as Uncle Panayot, the Bulgarian partizan leader executed by the YCP), demonstrated to us the difference between a struggle for national unification on one side and fascism on the other. It is tragic that this object lesson is still not understood by most Bulgarians to this very day. That is why Shatorov's supporters in Vardar Macedonia, called Sharlisti, were systematically exterminated by the YCP in the autumn of 1944, while the BCP looked on.