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Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria *Апел до Македонците во Бугарија*
	Photo of the Appeal written in Bulgarian
Author	former veterans of the IMRO (United)
Publisher	Bulgarian Communist Party
Publication date	September 28th, 1944
Website	The entire appel translated in Macedonian on the Wikibooks of the Macedonian Wikipedia

Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria (Macedonian: Апел до Македонците во Бугарија)^[1] is an appeal from 29 notable Macedonian activists in Bulgaria, they were former activists of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United), the appeal was published in Sofia which is where it was written at the time during World War II. The whole point of the appeal was to get support from the Macedonians in Bulgaria to participate in the liberation of Pirin Macedonia, which was occupied by Bulgaria during the war. They also wanted to help participate in the National Liberation of Macedonia.^[2] The appeal is very famous between Macedonians in Bulgaria for showing a sign that Macedonians in Bulgaria existed back then despite the Bulgarian goverment denying their existence. OMO Ilinden Pirin, a Macedonian organization in Bulgaria would do a similar version with their own appeal in the 1990s. The entire appeal is saved in Macedonian archives.^[3] The Appeal also used the motto from multiple Macedonian organization at Bulgaria at the time which was "Macedonia for the Macedonians".^[4]

The new Bulgarian power established after the September 9th coup, soon after that began to reorganize and/or close the Macedonian patriotic organizations that had existed until then, such as the Union of Macedonian Emigrant Organizations, the Ilinden Organization, the Macedonian Women's Union and the Union of Macedonian Youth Organizations. The fate of the signatories of the Appeal is different. Some of them soon after had high public and political positions in both countries, while others were repressed or isolated from political life. Overall the appeal had failed in what it tried to do, and that was to gain autonomy or independence for the Pirin Region in Bulgaria. However Georgi Dimitrov, the first president of the newly formed socialist Bulgaria actually planned to give the region independence but after his death his successor refused to.

Structure

The appeal starts with "Dear fellow citizens" (which is talking about the Macedonian population in Bulgaria) and then in detail explains the terror the Macedonian population has experienced throught its history, recounting stories of Ottoman rule and mentioning how heroic the Ilinden Uprising was. they then name multiple famous Macedonian revolutionaries, some of which are: Dame Gruev, Goce Delčev, Dimo Hadži Dimov, Gjorče Petrov. The appeal talks about the Macedonian question, a political debate on whether or not the Macedonians as a nation should exist.

The appeal ends with a call for unity with Yugoslavia and more local autonomy in Bulgaria, they also show support for the USSRs army and the Yugoslavian partisans. They wish for end of fascism in the Bulgarian goverment and to accept communism. There are 29 signatures and they are located at the end and they are:

Number	Name	Location of Birth	Photo of the person
1	Pavel Šatev	Kratovo, Macedonia
2	Božin Dimitrov	unknown	N/A
3	Ivan Pop Jordanov	Veles, Macedonia	N/A
4	Ljuben Manolov	unknown	N/A
5	Hristo Kalajdžiev	Giannitsa, Aegean Macedonia	N/A
6	George Sarakinov	Sarakinovo, Aegean Macedonia
7	Aleksandar Martulkov	Veles, Macedonia
8	Lazar Popovski	Kosinec, Aegean Macedonia
9	Hristo Dalkalčev	Vladovo, Aegean Macedonia
10	Hristo Tenčev	Kukuš, Aegean Macedonia
11	Petar Šandanov	Ohrid, Macedonia
12	Peco Trajkov	Vrbeni, Aegean Macedonia
13	Lazar Ašlakov	unknown	N/A
14	Tuše Deliivanov	Kukuš, Aegean Macedonia
15	Georgi Dinišev	Dolni Todorak, Aegean Macedonia	N/A
16	Georgi Despotov	Kruševo, Macedonia	N/A
17	Angel Dinev	Smokvica, Macedonia	N/A
18	Krste Germov	Prilep, Macedonia
19	Filip Pop Todorov	Gorno Brodi, Greece	N/A
20	Dimitar Halvatdžiev	unknown	N/A
21	Ivan Palejkov	unknown	N/A
22	Nikola Konstantinov	unknown	N/A
23	Lazar Božinov	unknown	N/A
24	Goce Grkov	Kukuš, Aegean Macedonia	N/A
25	Vasil Hristov	Zeleniče, Aegean Macedonia
26	Boris Mihov	Veles, Macedonia	N/A
27	Tuše Vlahov	Kukuš, Aegean Macedonia
28	Stefan Nanov	Malovišta, Macedonia
29	Mihail Gerdžikov	Plovdiv, Bulgaria