Notes

1 Central State Historical Archives (CSHA), fund 370, list 1, file 964, pages 14-15.

2 Sirkov, D. ,,The Bulgarian National Territorial Problem...", pages 116-117.

3 Paleshutski, “K. The Yugoslav…”, page 279.

4 Filov, B. ,,Diary", Sofia. 1990, page 303.

5 Paleshutski, K, ,,The Yugoslav..." page 279.

6 Andonov, A. The Yugoslav Communist Party and the national problem in Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia until the middle of the 60s." in Prob­lems of the policy of the Balkan Communist Parties in connection with the national question. Collection of studies. Sofia 1987, page 202.

7 Rachev, S. ,,Hitler's Aggression on the Balkans and in Bulgaria (1941)", in Military-Historical collection, 1989, page 45,

8  Toshkova, V. ,,Bulgaria and the Third Reich (1941-1944)", Sofia, 1975; Sirkov, D. ,,The Bulgarian National Territorial problem,..", page 120-121.

9 Paleshutski, K. ,,The Yugoslav..., page 280.

10 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, ,,Memoirs of Vassil Hadzhikimov, pages 1-12.

11 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 3.

12 Told by Vassil Hadjikimov. Documentary data about Stephan Stephanov are not available.

13 Up to that moment, there were no data available of the governmental authorities for the sending of Stephanov and Hadzhikimov to Vardar Mace­donia. Hadzhikimov himself denied having permit by the government or the Palace. Having in mind, the significance of their initiative one could suppose that they had received a similar idea of proposal by the official governmental bodies as an element of the propaganda for Macedonia, organized in Bulgaria at that time. Actual evidence of any engagement of the government with the activities of Stephanov and Hadzhikimov were not available.

14 CSA, fund 1931, list 4, file 32, page 15.

15 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 16-19.

16 Trayko Popov was born in the village of Rashtak, Skopje region. He was one of the leaders of the Skopje group of followers of the ideas of IMRO for an independent of the Macedonian Bulgarian state. Having comprehended well the anti-Bulgarian nature of the Serbian Yugoslav idea for the settlement of the Macedonian question, even after the arrest and the torturing by the Tito’s Mace­donia adherents, Traycho Popov continued to hold to his Bulgarian origin. For his position that honest Bulgarian was convicted to death.

17 Pavlovski, J. „Justice as a Last blow". Tetovo, 1979, p. 31.

18 Spiro Kitinchev was an honoured citizen of Skopje. He had finished the Bulgarian Secondary School in Salonica. Later he continued his education in Switzerland. He was a member of the Skopje committee of IMRO. After the war he was arrested by Tito's regime and convincted to many years in prison for his activities as an honest Bulgarian and because he had shown his national belong­ing. He died in prison from strenuous physical work. (See Mihaylov, I. ,,Memoirs", Tetovo; Vol. II"; ,,The War of Liberation 1919 - 1924", Louven, Belgium, 1965, page 144).

19 Not a copy was preserved of that leaflet.

20 Filov, B. ,,Diary", page 307.

21 CSA fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 19-21.

22 CSA fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 15.

23 Macedonia No. 1, 1941 (The date of the first publication was not specified). In the newspaper the names were given in that order: Blagoy pop Pankov and Ilia Atanassiev.

24 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 14.

25 Macedonia No. 1, 1941.

26 Hristov, K. ,,The Declaration" in Illinden Illustration, 1941, page 5.

27 CSA fund 370, list 1, file 967, page 3.

28  More details about the life of that great patriot and for his activity see Minchev, D. ,,Military Revolutionary Activity of Peter Darvingov 1898-1918", Sofia, 1990;

29 Daskalov, G. ,,The Bulgarian campaign...", page 62.

30 CSA fund 3, list 1, file 1198, page 10-12.

31  According to Hadzhikimov the newspaper was issued only in five num­bers. I have managed to find out only the three first numbers, preserved in the Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia.

32  Hadzhikimov, V. ,,Review of the Cultural Life in Macedonia", in Mace­donia Newspaper No. 1,1943, page 76.

33 Macedonia, No. 1,1941.

34 Hadzhikimov,V. ,,Review of…", in Macedonia Newspaper No. l, 1943, page 77.

35  Hadzhikimov,V. ,,The Campaign Committees 1941", in Record Office of

Institute of Military History and Military History Science Unity, Collection for Macedonia, p. 66.

36  Important and interesting coincidence: the father of Spiro Kitinchev -Giore Kitinchev was a mayor of Skopje during World War I - from 1915-1918. See Lazarov,T. ,,A travel Round Macedonia", in Illnden Illustration, 1941, No. 6., p. 9; also in ,,Skopje and the Victories in Dobroudzha" in Rodina No. 129, 10 September 1916.

37 CSA fund 1931, list 4, file 32, page 22.

38 CSA fund 1591, list 3, file 27, page 1.

39 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 27, page 17 - 18.

40 Macedonia, No. 2, May 3,1941.

41 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 11-12. According to Hadzhikimov Strahil Gigov did not participate in that campaign committee but he could not explain how his name appeared in the written statement.

42 Macedonia No. 1, 1941.

43  Velev. T. ,,The development of the Maccdonism and its Impact on the Population of Vardar Macedonia in the Beginning of 1940s. Diploma thesis. .Sofia University, Faculty in History, 1978, p. 42-43; Kiev, I. “I was an 'Invader' in Macedonia" in Review No. 49, December 1990, p. 16.

44 CSA, f. 396, op. 1, a.e. 36, p. 8-9; f.1932. op. 4, a.e. 32, p. 43.

45 Hadzhikimov, V. ,.Sunny days". Skopje, 1942, p. 37.

46 Mihaylov, I. ,,Memoirs". Vol.1.; “Tender years”, Italy, 1958, p. 156.

47 The family was unknown.

48 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 44.

49 Ibidem.

50 ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 7.

51 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 36, page 3.

52 Ibidem, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 36.

53  Ivanovski, V, The War of..., page 25.

54  CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 36.

55 Hadzhikimov, V.,,Sunny days", p. 16.

56  CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 37.

57  Macedonia Newspaper, No. 2, May 3,1941.

58 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 155, page 38.

59 Central Military Archives (CMA), fund 24, list 3, file 155, page 17.

60 Ivanovski, V. The War of Liberation.....page 22.

61 Hadzhikimov, V. ,,Sunny days", p. 16.

62 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 36, page 6-7.

63 Kanchov, V. “Macedonia, Ethnographic and Statistics", 1900, p. 213.

64  Hadzhikimov,V. ,,Sunny days", p. 20.

65 CSA fund 1591, list 3, file 26, page 2.

66 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 9.

67 Ibidem, fund 1591, list 3, file 26, page 2.

68  CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 39.

69 CSA, fund 1591, list 3, file 26, page 1.

70 Ibidem, fund 396, list L file 36, page 15.

71 Ibidem, fiie 37, page 5.

72 Ibidem, file 36, page 14.

73 Ivanovski, V. ,,The War of Liberation..., page 25,

74 CSA, fund 3932, list 4, fiie 32, page 40; Hadzhikimov, V. “Sunny days”, p. 24-25; Krastio Traykov was a Bulgarian leader of the volunteers from Veles. In the Balkan War he participated in the Bulgarian army as a leader of volunteer detachment No. 11 (see Liberation Movement in Macedonia and Odrin. Vol. II, book II, p. 79). During World War I he led fights against the Serbian army as a leader from the Internal Macedonian Adrianople's Revolutionary Organization cooperating the Bulgarian army in its advancment in Macedonia.

75 CSA, fund 1932, list'4, file 32, page 40.

76 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 37, page 13; fund 370, list 1, file 964, page 13.

77 Ibidem, f. 370, op. 1, a.e. 964, p. 14"

78 After the establishment of the Yugoslav rule in Bitola in the end of 1944 the struggle for Bulgarian power in the town was resumed. The so called Democratic Front of Macedonia - Ilinden 1903 was formed. Activists of the organization were some of the people who participated in the activities of the local Bulgarian cam­paign committee as Stephan Kouzmanov and Serafim Lazarov. The younger people continued their deed. Members of the management body of the Demo­cratic Front were Luka Seculov and Kiril Petsakov, brothers of the participants in Bitola's campaign committee Boycho Sekoulov and Stephan Kouzmanov. Of course, there was no question for accession with Bulgaria anymore but for inter­national inquiry in Macedonia and its independence under the patronizing of the UN patronship. See Zora Newspaper, No. 10, August 7, 1990.

79 For his patriotism after the establishment of Tito's rule after the war, the lawyer Rampo Ivanov Toplichanets was convicted to 18 years in prison (See Belopolski, S. ..Revolt of the Raged Self-Consciousness” in Macedonia Newspa­per, No. 50, December 18, 1992).

80 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 37, pages 22-23.

81 Velev, T. ,,The Development of the Macedonism...", page 43.

82 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, page 41.

83 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 39, page 1.

84 Macedonia Newspaper, No. 2, May 3, 1941.

85 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 36, pages 4-5.

86 Ibidem, file 37, page 3.

87 Memoirs of Vassil Hadzhikimov. Personal records. Additional notes.

88 CMA, fund 24, list 3, file 156, page 338. 39 Filov, B. ,,Diary", 1990, p. 311.

89 CSA, fund 1932, list 4, file 32, pages 42-43. About the situation in that club we understand from the report of president Nedialko Chaoushev on November 3, 1941 to the prime minister Bogdan Filov.

91 CSA, fund 3, list 1, file 573, pages 32-38.

92 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 36, pages 4-5.

93 Ibidem, fund 3, list 1, file 1198.

94 Ibidem.

95 Ibidem, file 37, p. 21.

96  Ibidem, p. 19.

97 Ibidem, fund 396, list 1, file 37, p. 20.

98 Zora Newspaper, N. 5898, April 23, 1941.

99 CSA, fund 396, list 1, file 36, p. 10.

100 Ibidem, p. 11.

101 Ibidem, p. 1-3.

102 Ibidem, file 37, p.3.

103 Ibidem, fund 3, list 1, file 573, p. 30.

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