CHAPTER NINE - NOF and AFZH’s historic end - Part 02

Yugoslavia, including the Macedonians, into the hands of imperialism...”, Our history (mainstream history of the Aegean) said: “The resolution adopted by the KOEM leadership used all NOF and AFZH organizations as well as all Macedonian DAG fighters as a means of implementing a hysterical campaign against Yugoslavia and its leadership.” Then, on June 16, 1949, the AFZH Executive Board called on all Macedonians to go to the Vicho defense front line.

55 As a result of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the signing of the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest on August 10, 1913, sanctioned by the Neuilly Peace Treaty signed on November 27, 1919 and the Sevres Peace Agreement signed on August 10, 1920, Macedonia was divided between Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania (which later received Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo). Greece received 34,356 km2 or 51% of the Macedonian ethnic and historical territory, Serbia received 25,713 km2 or 39%, Bulgaria received 6,798 km2 or 9.5% and Albania received 0.5% of Macedonia’s ethnic and historical territory. (Also see point 14.)

56 The CPG Central Committee Politburo accepted the June 30, 1948 Information Bureau Resolution during its July 28 and 29, 1948 4th Plenum.

57 I vividly remember this incident and each time I thought of it in these past 64 years it gave me bitter grief. When our unit was mining certain selected sectors in Vicho and Bela Voda, we were temporarily stationed in the village of Bukovik. One day I saw a large number of half-naked and hungry old people locked up behind a fence. They were the parents of the young men and women who were forcibly mobilized into DAG’s units. The camp was located in an area between the villages Besfina and Bukovik.

58 According to Vladimir Dedier, one of Tito’s diplomats and intelligence agents, Brigadier Fitzroy McLean was at the time a top intelligence agent in Britain and in Europe! McLean was a personal friend of Churchill and, as his achievements have shown, he was the first to learn about the secret pact between Hitler and Stalin, and to discover German General Rommel’s plans to invade North Africa. McLean was ordered to organize contacts and allied support with

Tito’s partisans. He came to Yugoslavia in 1943 by parachuting from an airplane together with his radio telegrapher Bill Dickens, looking to make contact with the partisans. McLean was a diplomat in Moscow and had experience and knowledge of communist ideology and action. Tito especially appreciated and respected McLean. After the war he considered him a friend and gave him a house on Korchula Island. Fitzroy McLean regularly visited the house almost until his death in March 1996.

59 On April 23, 1945 NOF (National Liberation Front) for the Macedonians in Greece was formed in Skopje by the CPM Central Committee. At the same time AFZH and NOMS were formed. Then, after the formation to the so-called “Brotherhood and Unity” between NOF and the CPG and after NOF was put under CPG command, NOF acted against CPY/CPM directives up until DAG was liquidated. After that NOF’s leadership was sent to Siberia and exiled in the Siberian internment camps.

60 Holocaust: Victims that are burned in rituals or victims suffering in a fire (this term is especially used to describe the suffering of Jews in the fascist crematoria).

61 Evangelos Kofos studied at the University of Georgetown in the USA and graduated as a specialist on the “Macedonian Question”. Kofos is an ideologue of Greek policy towards Macedonia in terms of the name. During the key years when our Macedonian destiny was decided, especially during the time when the Republic of Macedonia was seeking recognition and admission into the United Nations, until the end of 1995, he was Chief of Staff of the Greek Foreign Ministry, a position created to manage the so-called “name dispute”. Kofos spent over 50 years working on the “Macedonian Question”, up until 1991and beyond so that he could close the “Macedonian Question” once and for all. He was the ideologue and architect who, in the essence of Greek politics, defined the “name dispute”.

Kofos has published several books through the Institute for Balkan Studies in Solun. One of those books is entitled “Nationalism and Communism in Macedonia”, Solun: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1964.

62 The Neuilly Peace Agreement: As a country that was defeated in the First World War, Bulgaria signed a peace deal by which it lost a lot of territory. By this Agreement Bulgaria lost Dobridzha to Romania, Thrace was given to Greece, Strumitsa, Dimitrovgrad (then called Tsaribrod) and Bosilegrad were given to Serbia. The Bulgarian Army recorded 8,750 dead soldiers and officers and 152 thousand wounded. On the civilian side Bulgaria suffered 275 thousand casualties.

63 OZNA and UDBA (Department for the Protection of People -Directorate for State Security), KOS (YNA counter-intelligence sector) and SID (Information and Documentation services for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia).

64 Ivan Karaivanov, an agent of the Soviet NKVD and Comintern instructor, was one of Tito’s special intelligence agents. Karaivanov was also an immediate associate and instructor working for General Markos Vafiadis and so were Giuza Radovich, Obrad Trninich, Milo Vrbitsa, Velimir Dotsnich, Svetislav Stoianovich and Petar Lutsich, all of them Serbian KOS agents. Slobodan Markovich’s job was to illegally transport General Vafiadis back and forth from Greek occupied Macedonia to Belgrade. (See: KOS and UDBA – Secret Service actions and documents.)

65 Aleksandar Rankovich, nicknamed Marko, was born on November 28, 1909 near Obrenovats, Serbia. He was the creator of KOS and UDBA and responsible for many Macedonian deaths and suffering.

66 A few days before the New Year in 1945 the 2nd ASNOM sitting was held in Skopje, designated as extraordinary, which the great Josip Broz Tito did not attend but sent the Slovenian Edward Kardeli – Bevts in his place. Enchanted by the greatness of his guest, Kolishevski humbly listened to him speak, even though Kardeli had nothing good to say. Towards the end of the conversation Kardeli said to Kolishevski: “The day is nearing when everyone will have to pay for what they have done. There are five major bills that the Macedonians will have to pay: The Macedonians were the last to enter the war; the Macedonians fared the best during

the occupation; the Macedonians experienced the least destruction; the Macedonians had the least casualties; and, finally, the Macedonians did not participate in the liberation of Yugoslavia.”

Frantic, Kolishevski asked Kardeli what to do. Kardeli then coolly said: “The first three items can be remedied. That is why OZNA must immediately start arresting and killing people, and at the same time you should send a large military force to the Srem front.”

Darko Janevski on “Focus” asked: “Do we know everything about the castle revolt that took place in January 1949?”

67 Germanos Karavangelis was born in 1866 in the village Stipsi on Lesbos Island. He successfully completed his education at the University of Munich. His wish was to become a professor of theology but, in 1900, he was recruited by the Greek government and appointed Bishop of the Kostur Diocese. In a short time after his arrival, Karavangelis managed to create a network of priests, teachers and others in all the Kostur villages through bribes with gold coins. In his memoirs Karavangelis owned up to all his actions in detail and to the cruelest methods he and Pavlos Melas used to “Hellenize” Macedonia. Karavangelis was also a sponsor of the Greek anti-Macedonian armed counter-bands that emerged around 1901. Pavlos Melas was their chief organizer.

68 The Pan-Hellenic Liberation Organization (PAO) consisted of former Greek police chiefs, former Greek police officers, former Greek Army officers and various other nationalist and anti-popular elements. PAO was organized in collaboration with the occupying military authorities and on many occasions its agents infiltrated the ranks of ELAS with aims at liquidating staunch ELAS fighters and particularly communists. Included among the PAO agents who infiltrated ELAS were Kirtsidakis, Zisis and Mandaropoulos. These three were caught, convicted and physically liquidated in late April 1943.

69 See point 22.