Petar Chaulev

[7][8] Cultural closeness was expressed by such Orthodox Albanians from the mixed Albanian-Bulgarian area in western Macedonia and some gradually became Bulgarianized.

After the Young Turks Revolution in 1908 he associated with the left wing of IMRO - People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section).

During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the 11th Macedonian Infantry Division of the Bulgarian army and later was appointed as governor of Ohrid.

Since 1922, as the head of the Bitola Revolutionary District and in charge of maintaining contacts with the Albanian and Italian authorities, Chaulev often resided in Albania and in Italy.

As result Chaulev signed the so-called "May Manifesto" in Vienna along with Alexandar Protogerov concerning the formation of a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union.