Macedonians and the Civil War in Greece Volume 1 In the Deep Night, Dawn is Born By Pavle Rakovski (Translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto Stefov) Macedonians and the Civil War in Greece Volume 1 In the Deep Night, Dawn is Born Published by: Risto Stefov Publications [email protected] Toronto, Canada All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written consent from the author, except for the inclusion of brief and documented quotations in a review. Copyright 2018 by Pavle Rakovski e-book edition ********** August 7, 2018 ********** 2 INDEX PREFACE ......................................................................................7 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................11 CHAPTER ONE ..........................................................................15 1. Let us go in order .........................................................................15 2. It all started for me here ...............................................................16 3. Embargo on news.........................................................................17 4. The move......................................................................................17 5. A meeting with the elders ............................................................18 6. Letter to the District Committee ..................................................20 7. In Lerin.........................................................................................22 8. The CPG Central Committee 10th Plenum and SNOF.................23 9 The politics of ignoring.................................................................25 10. Bulgarian fascist activities .........................................................26 11. CPG slogans and “program” for the Macedonian national liberation struggle.............................................................................27 12. The National Council of the People’s Democratic Greece proclaimed........................................................................................29 13. Fighter determination.................................................................31 14 SNOF, its founding and dissolution............................................33 CHAPTER TWO .........................................................................35 1. An overpowering imperative........................................................35 2. Establishing a Macedonian battalion... ........................................37 3. Why was this allowed? ................................................................38 4. Battalion Command .....................................................................40 5. Proclamation to the Macedonian people......................................41 6. The Macedonian alphabet ............................................................44 7. A Flyer sent with the alphabet .....................................................46 8. We and the Bulgarians .................................................................48 9. Rochko “the aficionado”..............................................................49 10. Commander Lefteris...................................................................53 11. Withdrawal of the battalion........................................................54 12. Three spies .................................................................................58 13. Dzhodzho Urdov’s sins..............................................................60 14. In Bitola......................................................................................62 CHAPTER THREE......................................................................66 1. Siantos declared a traitor..............................................................66 2. The proletariat was incapacitated.................................................67 3. Changing tactics...........................................................................68 3 4. The Union of the people’s revolutions in the neighbouring nations was rejected......................................................................................69 5. ELAS placed under English command ........................................70 6. Joint Headquarters........................................................................70 7. Other characteristic facts..............................................................72 8. The Lebanon Agreement..............................................................73 9. A leaflet spelling out Greek demands ..........................................74 10. The Caserta Agreement..............................................................75 11. ELAS liquidated.........................................................................76 12. Treachery....................................................................................77 CHAPTER FOUR........................................................................79 1. Forming TOMO ...........................................................................79 2. Forming NOF...............................................................................82 3. FIRST REPORT ..........................................................................83 4. - A document on terror.................................................................87 5. Another document on looting ......................................................89 6. One more document on looting....................................................91 7. General condition of the democratic forces .................................96 8. Report - June 27, 1945 .................................................................98 CHAPTER FIVE........................................................................105 1. Zahariadis...................................................................................105 2. Verbal policy..............................................................................106 3. CPG and VMRO (United)..........................................................109 4. Attacks against the democratic rights of the Macedonians........110 5. Over 300,000 Macedonians .......................................................113 6. The CPG and Zahariadis’s first move........................................114 7. Sklavenas’s performance in parliament .....................................116 8. Provocation ................................................................................118 9. Another opinion .........................................................................120 10. The May 1936 events in Solun ................................................121 CHAPTER SIX ..........................................................................124 1. Zahariadis and NOF ...................................................................124 2. Why it was necessary to have an English presence in Greece...126 3. In anticipation of Sofoulis..........................................................127 4. With England, not against England............................................129 5. A crucial unbridled moment was missed ...................................129 6. Was the armed struggle a bluff?! ...............................................130 7. Destruction of the Macedonian battalions .................................132 8. A different evaluation ................................................................134 9. Markos’s removal.......................................................................139 4 10. DAG’s destruction ...................................................................140 11. Breaking the CPG ....................................................................145 CHAPTER SEVEN....................................................................149 1. A provocative stand ...................................................................149 2. Trojan horse tactics ....................................................................150 3. A grave crime.............................................................................151 4. Political killings .........................................................................152 5. Political murders committed by Siantos’s leadership................156 6. A happy coincidence..................................................................159 7. The Greek model of “supremacy”..............................................159 8. Dissolving KUG.........................................................................160 9. Disbanding the Orchestra...........................................................161 10. Two phases of the same policy ................................................162 11. A malicious maneuver..............................................................163 12. This was a policy of the Greek bourgeoisie.............................167 CHAPTER EIGHT ....................................................................170 1. The NOF Central Committee agitation and propaganda department stops working ..............................................................170 2. Stringos in the role of an Olympic god ......................................171 3. Tasios Gusiopoulos-Makis.........................................................173 4. NEPOKOREN – NOF’s ideological and political organ...........175 5. The brochure “NOF”..................................................................177