PETRE TANUROV-DONE (1915-1948) - Part 02

One of them - Aleko’s wife, sadly mourns, painfully weeps: Get up, get up, dear Aleko, get up and look at your young children, Who you left wretched and fatherless, Wretched and fatherless, without a home and without a father.

I can not, dear Shilia, I can not get up, the black earth has covered me and is squeezing…

But tell my children, that their father died for the people.

628 Letter from Angel Gatsev, dated December 14, 1945, to NOF General Directorate, with details regarding the murder of the nine NOF activists on Paiak Mountain. “Aegean Macedonia in the National Liberation War, 1945”, Vol. II, doc. 222, p. 429. His son Giorgi yelled out: I will go to school, dear father, and leader I will become, then those Fascists will be sorry, they will be sorry for killing you. 629

629 Kocho Hadzigeorgiev composed this song. The text was given to me by Atanas Meliov-Atso, a member of the NOF District Board for Gumendzhe District and NOF Secretary for Kufal Region, Solun District. ABBREVIATIONS

ACE - Agricultural Party of Greece. AFZH - Anti-fascist Women’s Front (Aegean Macedonia). VMRO (United) - Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United). DAG General Staff - Democratic Army of Greece - General Staff. EAM - National Liberation Front. ELAS - National Liberation Army. EON - National Youth Organization. EPON - National Greek Youth Organization. ETA - Partisan Supply Committee. INI - Institute of National History - Skopje. KNOJ - Corps of the National Defense of Yugoslavia. CPG - Communist Party of Greece. CPY - Communist Party of Yugoslavia CPM - Communist Party of Macedonia. KOEM - Communist Organization of Aegean Macedonia. MAO - Macedonian Liberation Organization. NOB - National Liberation Struggle. NOV – People’s Liberation Army. NOMS - National Liberation Youth Union (Aegean Macedonia). NOF – People’s Liberation Front (Aegean Macedonia). OKNE - Organization of the communist youth of Greece. OPLA - Organization for the Protection of People’s Fighters. PAO - Patriotic Liberation Organization (Fascist). PDV - Provisional Democratic Government (of Greece). PEEA - Political Committee for National Liberation. SKOJ - Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. SNOV - Slavo-Macedonian Liberation Army. SNOF - Slavo-Macedonian National Liberation Front. TOMO - Secret Macedonian Liberation Organization. Ts K - Central Committee.