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The appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria (Апел до македонците в България) was a political address of 29 left-wing activists, mostly members of the Bulgarian Communist Party, nearly all of whom originated from the region of Macedonia. They appealed to the members of the then Greek and Yugoslav Macedonian refugees' organizations in Bulgaria. The appeal was published in Sofia, soon after the pro-Soviet coup held on 9 September, 1944 in Bulgaria. In it, the signatories adhered to the view of the existence of a separate Macedonian nation. The document supported the newly created Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, appealing for the creation of a Socialist Macedonia in the frames of a future Socialist Yugoslavia. Solidarity with the new communist-led Fatherland front government in Bulgaria was also expressed. It was pointed out that the main task of the Macedonian emigration in Bulgaria became to purge all local emigrant organizations of their current Greater Bulgarian leaderships, which were servants of the ousted "Bulgarian fascists". Among the signatories were Pavel Shatev, Mihail Gerdzhikov, Alekso Martulkov, Petar Traykov, etc. Afterwards the new Bulgarian authorities proclaimed the old National Committee of the Macedonian Emigration dissolved and replaced it by a new one, led by some of the communists who signed the appeal.

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 * The appeal translated from Bulgarian on Macedonian Wikibooks

Category:Macedonian Question Category:1944 in Bulgaria