Vasil Ivanovski

[1] Per the Macedonian historian Ivan Katardžiev, such activists of the IMRO (United) and the Bulgarian Communist Party never managed to break with their pro-Bulgarian aspirations.

Later Ivanovski was a tobacco worker, trade unionist and left-wing political activist, and since 1923 a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP).

In September 1927 he was sent to study at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West in Moscow, graduating in 1932.

There Ivanovski declared many historical figures, including such from the Middle Ages, as ethnic Macedonians.

[5] His article caused shock among the Bulgarian public and even among some members of the BCP and the IMRO (united).

In a letter to the leader of the Bulgarian communists Georgi Dimitrov Ivanovski announced the de-Bulgarization by the codification of the new alphabet and the new literary language and expressed his concern at the violent methods used to create the new Macedonian nation.

[10] At the end of 1945 fully disappointed by the Yugoslav communists he returned to Bulgaria and worked in Pirin Macedonia.

In 1949 Ivanovski was dismissed from the Central Committee and expelled from the Party and subsequently arrested by the Bulgarian authorities.

After his release in 1958 at a plenum of the Bulgarian Communist Party the decision was taken that the Macedonian nation and language did not exist.