No. 51
A TELEGRAM FROM BCCC TO THE
HEADQUARTERS OF THE
HUNGARIAN ARMY WITH A
REQUEST FOR LIBERATION OF
THE PRISONERS OF WAR - MACEDONIAN BULGARIANS
The Bulgarian
Central Campaign Committee is pleading to
the Military Headquarters of the fraternal ally Hungary to set free as
soon as possible the Macedonian Bulgarians, captured by the
Hungarian
army.
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 2, May 3, 1941.
No. 52
ORDER No. 1 OF THE
SKOPJE REGIONAL DIRECTOR ANTON
KOZAROV ABOUT ESTABLISHING OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES IN
I announce to the
population of the
The Skopje region
includes the settlements bordering to
the with a north with the towns of Vladichki Han, Vrania and Preshovo,
including their vicinities, to the west it borders with river
Vardur,
and the towns of Skopje and Veles to the old Greek border with
Kingdom
Bulgaria.
In this fixed area
are in force all civil and
administrative laws of the
All citizen,
administrative and police authorities, that
have operated until now, shall stop functioning, except if they
are
not assigned especially by the region to continue operation.
I order to all
regional governors, police chiefs and
mayors, who have received appointments, or were ordered to continue
their work, to obtain their positions, and to establish the Bulgarian
power and laws in their areas.
I am asking the
population to remain calm, preserve the
order, and continue its economic activities, and also to render
absolute support to the established civil, administrative, police
and
municipal authorities.
No. 53
ORDER No. 2 OF THE
SKOPJE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
ANTON KOZAROV ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITIES IN
Having established
the power of the Bulgarian state in
the liberated territory of Skopje region, I declare, that as from
today, April 26,1941, the bodies of the Bulgarian state authority
started functioning normally, therefore:
1. A ask the
population of
The B u l g a r i
a n slate authority is in position to
guarantee to all citizens of the region security and tranquility,
needed for the economic and spiritual life.
2. All citizens
are obliged unconditionally to
subordinate to the authorities. The infringers will be persecuted very
strictly.
3. I forbid the
spread of whatever rumours and actions,
that could disturb the tranquility of the population, and any attempts
for dividing the population.
4. I invite all
traders, craftsmen and others, under the
pressure of punishment, to open immediately their shops, stores,
workshops, etc, and start their everyday trade.
5. Strictly is
forbidden the hiding of goods and the rise
of the prices of the goods with the purpose of speculation. The prices,
determined from April 1 this year are compulsory.
6.
I ask the population
together with fully obeying the orders, to render full assistance
to all state and municipality authorities.
No. 54
ORDER No. 1 OF THE SKOPJE
REGIONAL POLICE CHIEF ANTONOV ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE MILITARY
ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITIES IN
For ensuring the
public security and tranquility, I hereby o
r d e r:
1. Every citizen
is obliged to obey the orders and the
instructions of the police, whose aim is exclusively to preserve the
order, the security of the people and the country.
2. All orders, of
the German police authorities
concerning opening and closing of catering establishments, as well as
the hour, determined for the movement of the citizens remain in
force.
The last order will be implemented very strictly.
3. At citizens,
who could try to create confusion amidst
the population, and shoot at officials, fire will be opened
without
warning.
4.
I very strictly forbid
the gathering in groups.
5. People, who
will try to organize meetings without a
preliminary permission from the police authorities, will be
punished.
The present order
I assign for implementation to the
police authorities in the region, which could operate against
every
disobedience with arms.
Macedonia,
newspaper, No., 2, May 3, 1941.
No. 55
ARTICLE OF STEPHAN
STEPHANOV, ENTITLED “FORWARD
ONLY!”
Performing their
holly duty to nation and state, the
Bulgarian patriots followed the victorious armies of the mighty Fuhrer
Adolph Hitler, led by the famous general fieldmarshal von List, when
they went to sacrifice their life for the liberation of
The Macedonian
question, until recently a real nightmare
for the peace in Europe, and the apple of discord for the Balkan
countries, at last received final and fair political solution -
with
the liberation and accession of
And if now the
Macedonian Bulgarians want to be more
social, with their deeds to show themselves worthy for the country and
for the national community, which was for them an ideal during
centuries; this most cherished desire for them is right and
understandable, and there is no need to be proved.
The hard reality
and the rigorous laws of life - which
here are quite different from the ones in the former
The above
directives are clear, they only have to be
implement ed with a creative work.
The Central
Committee duly pointed to the most reliable
representatives of the government what has to be done for the positive
solution of numerous questions and urgent needs. It said how food to be
provided for the poor, how the supply of Macedonia with essentials to
be carried out, what is to be done to prevent speculation and the
horrible rise of prices, fearful for the poor, the clerks and for all
citizens. It was underlined what was to be done with the Dinar-Lev
exchange course, how to be cleared out the colonization*, what was to
be done with the unemployment of workers, clerks, and teachers, which
started here after the lightning war. It was recommended also how the
hardness of the Bulgarians, the Macedonian natural sources, the
fertile soil to be used. Everything that the committee has finished
about the liberation of the prisoners of war - Bulgarians from the
camps in
The Bulgarian
enslaved lands got their freedom. The
Bulgarian nation is united.
Only in this way
we will realize our duty to our nation
and to the supreme leader of the Bulgarian nation and state!
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 1941.
* The author had in
mind the policy of settlement
(colonization) of Serbs with their families in the occupied by
No. 56
A TELEGRAM FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF BCCC STEPHAN
STEPHANOV TO HIS MAJESTY TSAR BORIS III
Your Majesty,
On the occasion of
the today's biggest celebration of St.
St. Cyril and Methodius day of Bulgarian education and culture
celebrated in Skopje and everywhere in Macedonia, enslaved until
recently and now hugged in the warm embrace of the Motherland forever,
with most festive and unique by its performance national parade of the
Bulgarian patriotism, the Bulgarian people from the liberated Macedonia
and its Central Committee are sending you their sincere greetings and
wish you from all their heart long life and prosperity to Your Majesty
and the Tsar's home.
At the same time
we pray to God to bless the extreme
efforts of Your Majesty for the bringing back to the Motherland of the
other parts of Northern Southwestern Macedonia* with the native town of
St. St. Cyril and Methodius and the metropolitan of the martyr
Macedonia - Thessaloniki, for the joy and happiness of the whole
Bulgarian people and Great Bulgaria under Your scepter!
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 1941.
* Meaning the
northern part of Aegean Macedonia, that was
populated in the beginning of the 20th C. mostly with Bulgarians.
Greeks populated the southern parts of Aegean Macedonia.
No. 57
A TELEGRAM FROM TSAR
BORIS III TO THE PRESIDENT
OF BCCC STEPHAN STEPHANOV IN REPLY TO HIS GREETING TELEGRAM
Hearty thanks to
you and the members of the committee for
the polite greetings and good wishes that you had sent for the feast of
the St.
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 1941.
No. 58
SPEECH OF THE SECRETARY
OF THE LOCAL CAMPAIGN
COMMITTEE IN
Citizens,
What we have
dreamt about happened. We are witnesses of
the unprecedented defeat of our enemy, our oppressor. He was crushed by
the brave armies of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and we are
dazed from happiness and joy. E v e n today
it was with great difficulty that we gathered in order to thank to our
liberators and allies, to glorify the birthday of the great leader of
great and invincible Germany. Today, when the Great Reich celebrates
the day of its greatest statesman and soldier, there is no Bulgarian
heart which does not share the great joy of our always dear ally - the
German people and does not show gratitude to the Great Fuhrer. We, the
oppressed till yesterday Macedonian Bulgarians, we consider our duty
everything that is dear to the great German nation. And we are thankful
to the Fuhrer to the extent to which only the man, who is taken down
from the gallows could be to the one, who takes him off the gallows, to
the one who saves him from unheard tortures, which the innocent
suffered.
The slavery of the
Macedonian Bulgarians was the more
dark and unbearable, since they were slaves of a less educated and
civilized nation.
As an expression
of this let us mention the actions, that
were nowhere in the world exercised over enslaved nations, except in
oppressed
They were telling
us that they were our liberators, and
we fell into a gloomy slavery.
It was a great
crime to call yourself a Bulgarian but we
were forcefully given their national names.
In the churches
they christened our children by force
with their names.
At school they
taught them to reject their fathers,
grandfathers, and nationality.
They destroyed us
economically, because they only wanted
and took from us, but did not give us anything.
In justice the
right had the one, who flattered and lied
that he was a Serb, or a Greek.
They said they
were educating us, but after their
occupation we had a greater number of ignorant people and fewer
schools, than during the Turkish times.
They said that
S o m e o n e w o u l d a s k:
How could they say such contradictory
things? The answer is simple, because only those, who lie and
flattering had the right to speak. Such people were bread by our
masters and carefully presented as sham representatives of this poor
nation, and when such renegades quarreled between themselves, and the
people voted for the rival, then the other one, who did nor receive the
“ people's” trust, was appointed senator, and continued to lie and to
amass fortune at the expense of his enslaved people.
But in spite of
all the Bulgarians remained Bulgarians.
Comprehending in
this way the “liberation”, our enslavers
propagandized and insolently spoke about their heroism. They
threatened everybody and said that only if they cough the Italians
will run across the
And who had to
fight instead for them? The blood of the
enslaved nations in former
Our Macedonian
Bulgarians understood this. They acted in
the way in which they should act, and unanimously helped, according to
their strength, to their liberators, to their victorious allies.
That is why the
Macedonian Bulgarians, and the whole
Bulgarian nation never will succeed in expressing their thankfulness to
the Furrier and the Dutche.
Hurrah for the
Furrier and for the Great Reich!
Hurrah for our
beloved ruler Boris III, Tsar of all
Bulgarians!
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 194I.
No. 59
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
REGARDING THE NATURE OF
Till now
*In fact those
ambitions did not come true. The newspaper
was rather a monthly edition and only three issues were published.
No. 60
AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF BISHOPRIC PRIESTS
In its desire to
settle the church matters as soon as
possible, the Skopje Veles church region has appointed temporarily the
following local persons for priests: S. Evtimov from the village
of
Valkovia, Tetovo area, for the priest in the village; Seraphim Bochev,
Tetovo area, for priest of the villages of Vlatsi, Miletino and
Chelopech; Nikola Vassilev from the village Spanche, Tetovo area in the
town of Tetovo; Panko Antov - in the villages Petrovka and Madzharsko;
H. Serafimov from Tetovo - in St. Yoan the Baptist Chapel, Skopje;
Stoil Davidov from Kratovo for priest in the Saint Dimitur Church,
Skopje; Grigor Burev from Shtip for priest in the village of Carbintsi,
Shtip area; Vassil Hadzhipopov, Shtip for priest in the Saint
Nikolai
Church in the same town; Kiril Troychev from Veles, sentenced to death
by the Serbs, for a priest in the same town; Angel pop Stoyanov for
priest in Saint Spas Church in Veles.
No. 61
INFORMATION ABOUT THE
ORDERS OF THE COMMISSIONER
ON SUPPILES
1.
All citizens, who have
their own flour, are obliged to prepare bread from it and stop buying
from the bakeries.
2.
The bakers must sell
bread only after 6 a.m. Before this time the bakeries should be closed,
and nobody should sell, or buy bread.
3. The bread has
to be sold on the day after its baking.
4. All citizens
who have wheat and corn flour in
quantities more than 10 kg, must declare it not later than 25th this
month, 6 p.m. through the municipal officers.
5.
All owners of
restaurants, inns, pubs, milk shops, and pastry shops, should take
price lists from the commissariat, and should pin them in a visible
place in their establishment.
6. All traders
should declare their available goods as
from May 1st.
7. All traders
should sell their goods at prices from 1st
of April this year. To this purpose they should put in a visible place
the price lists, or should stick labels of the goods.
8. The goods,
whose prices are fixed, could not be sold
at higher prices.
9. All wholesale
to traders and craftsmen should be done
only by invoices.
10. All wholesale
to traders outside
11. There is a
prohibition on all quantities of
sole-leather and all kinds of shoe-leathers in the leather factory and
workshops. The same applies to the caustic soda. The sale of above
materials will be done by the order of the commissariat.
No. 62
AN ARTICLE FROM VELKO
SPANCHEV ENTITLED “THE
SLAVERY IN
Skopje, June 3, l94I
A car, possession
of one of the most popular daily
newspapers in
My impression from
this comparison was startling. The
social and economical progress behind us was obvious, and so apparent,
since the conditions for its achievement were ponderous. The first poor
houses in the villages on Macedonian land remind of bee hives,
covered
with grayish straw, the first peasants were black with labour and
anguish, resembling sorrow shadows, the first sown fields,
communication means and urbanization means speak for the disregard
of
its oppressors - deed of the harmful intent of the Yugoslav state
policy towards that legendary country and its people persistent in
their Bulgarian consciousness.
Kriva Palanka,
Stratsin, Koumanovo -
The marvelous with
its fertility Polog from the springs
of
In Tetovo, that
had changed its appearance, because of
the two fires, protrudes one building of the state tobacco monopoly -
an instrument for sucking the blood of the Macedonian Bulgarians -
tobacco manufactures. For the harvest in 1940 a kilogram tobacco was
paid for 3.25 dinars and even less was paid for the previous harvest.
That was only on
paper. Actually the producers did not
receive anything for their production. In some cases they had to pay in
addition for of the imposed duties.
Not even a strong
agricultural or credit cooperation in
the villages; not even an initiative, for the people and for the
economy not a single reminiscence from economic and urbanistic cares
for the country! Only inhuman labour and bloody tears accompanied the
stream of Vardar, and only moan and suppressed anguish spread in the
magnificent Shar!
-
Results for the
assimilator and tyrant?
-
Contrary to the expected...
Tetovo and the
region had already become more Bulgarian
than in the past. But for this wait the next report, in which we will
examine together with the reader also the possibilities of the next day
- what could be done in the economical area in, and for liberated
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June3, 1941.
No. 63
ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT
COMMISSAR NIKIFOROV AS
REGARDS THE PRICES:
I. I set the
prices, at which the following goods will be
sold as from May 12, Monday, this year:
1 kg wheat bread 6
Leva
1 kg beef meat 28
Leva
1 kg lamb meat 30
Leva
1 kg pork meat 54
Leva
1 kg salt fine 7
Leva
1 kg sugar fine 28
Leva
1 kg lumps of
sugar 30 Leva
1 kg fresh cheese
28 Leva
1 kg cheese mellow
32 Leva
1 l milk 8 Leva
1 l yogurt 12 Leva
II. The set prices
are in Leva.
III. All
merchants, who deal with these goods and
articles must put price lists, written in Bulgarian, and by all means
in capital letters, with the set prices.
The person, who
sells at prices higher than those set,
will be punished to Chapter III of the Law on provision of food and
supplies and according to Art 44 and 45 of the Law on the civil
mobilization, with jail and fine of 1000 Leva.
Macedonia,
newspaper, No 3, June 3, 1941.
No. 64
ANNOUNCEMENT "ORGANIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION
OF THE POSITIONS IN THE
In order that the
citizens of
Mayor: Mr. Yanko
Mustakov, engineer
Deputy Mayor: Mr.
Spire Kitinchev
Assistant Mayors:
Kroum Organdzhiev - on the position of
municipality judge for
All services are
distributed as follows:
I. Administrative
Department; II. Civil Department; a)
Civil Registrar; b) Social Care; c) Food Supplies. III Law Department:
a)
Macedonia, newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 1941.
* Perhaps there is
a mistake in the text.
No. 65
A GRATITUDE TELEGRAM
FROM THE MINISTER OF WAR
LIEUTENANT GENERAL TEODOSSI DASKALOV TO THE PRESIDENT OF BCCC STEPHAN
STEPHANOV
Hearty thanks to
our brothers from Macedonia, who were
enslaved until not long ago, for the warm greetings and wishes
sent to
us for the Day of the Bravery*. Let’s now and in future be even more
united round His Majesty, the Tsar, and ensure forever the liberty of
our land, tortured and suffering until recently.
Macedonia,
newspaper, No. 3, June 3, 1941.
* Meaning the Day
of St. George.
No. 66
ORDER N. 1 OF THE MAYOR
OF
I am announcing
before the citizens of the town of
Brothers
Bulgarians,
The long expected
freedom has risen above all Bulgarian
outlying territories. The century-old dream of the Bulgarians came
true. The countless victims that the Bulgarian nation gave during those
years for its freedom at last received retribution. The most numerous
nationality in the heart of the Balkan peninsula outlines the
borders
of its unified country, that the efforts of the Bulgarian people could
be directed towards the establishing of a new and just order in Europe,
and on the
Dear citizens of
free
Your Bulgarian
authority has already taken all positions
in the newly liberated Macedonian region to work for its raise and for
the prosperity of its population. In your town, the capital of
For the
performance of this mission I have to manage with
numerous existing circumstances with the aim to be useful to the
multi-aspect progress of your town as soon as possible.
I am here before
you full with a warm desire and with a
will to fulfill this mission in the most efficient and effective way. I
am ready to invest all my energy and competence in the national,
cultural and material progress of the municipality.
However, I know
that my efforts would not be enough
without your valuable cooperation, and that they would not be
successful if you did not fully and sincerely support me.
That is why I
appeal for your help in this difficult, but
noble task, not for myself, but for all of you, for our town and
respectively for our cherished Motherland
A stable and
well-organized municipality means prosperous
people and a strong, well-arranged country.
Let's set up the
exemplary
Dear
fellow-countrymen,
Let's show that we
were born to live free! We have the
imperative duty with joint efforts to obliterate the sorrowful fate of
the long-lasting hard rule, and to make the resurrected freedom and
justice last forever.
Let our example
show to everybody, that here, on the
banks of the torrential Vardar, live worthy sons of
Let's show to the
whole world, that as during the
centuries the unshakable Bulgarian consciousness and firmness were a
distinctive quality of our ancestors from the classical Bulgarian
district of Macedonia, where from the banks of Vardar and the blue
Ohrid along the centuries sounded the exemplary call of Bulgarian
education and of Bulgarian pride nowadays here in Skopje the worthy
fathers and sons are ready to fulfill the legacy of those, who gave the
most treasured they possessed - their life - for the freedom of all
enslaved Bulgarian lands.
Brothers
Bulgarians,
At that moment,
when every Bulgarian heart is filled with
unspeakable joy for the freedom gained at last for all enslaved
Bulgarians, when from the banks of the Danube to the Aegean Sea,
and
from the Black Sea to Ohrid sound the Bulgarian call, “One nation, one
state, one Tsar”, in this great hour I am twice happier and proud, that
I am your Mayor, and that I could greet you as free Bulgarians of
united and great Bulgaria and to ask you all together to fulfill our
sacred duty!
Long live our wise
and beloved Tsar of the Bulgarians,
His Majesty Boris III!
Long live United
and Great Bulgaria!
Let
Mayor: