Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria

In this complicated situation, between September 15 and 25, a delegation of Yugoslav communists headed by Svetozar Vukmanović visited Bulgaria in order to push pressure on the new authorities with a number of demands.

Simultaneously, Josip Broz Tito used this situation to press the Bulgarian Communists additionally in parallel meetings with Georgi Dimitrov and Stalin, held in Moscow on September 25-27.

[6] As a result, in the published on September 28 document, the signatories adhered to the view of the existence of a separate Macedonian nation, distinct from Bulgarians.

[9] Afterwards the new Bulgarian authorities proclaimed the old pro-Bulgarian National Committees of the Macedonian Emigration dissolved and replaced them by a new one, led by some of the communists who signed the appeal.

[10] However, BCP leaders reacted very cautiously to the idea to join Bulgarian Macedonia to Yugoslavia, which caused a protest from the Yugoslav side.