Historical Unique Badge IMRO Independent Macedonia Project 1918

Description

Independent Macedonia is a CONCEPTUAL PROJECT of the Macedonian Bulgarians for the creation of an independent Macedonian state. HISTORICAL Breastplate / Badge UNIQUE! Made in Bulgaria especially for the project of IMRO (
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
) from 1918. Of all the badges made, only the one offered survived! Obverse - at the end an inscription in a circle: Independent Macedonia. We fight for her - we die for her. In the middle are two revolutionaries, one with torn handcuffs, pointing to a red flag with a lion held by the other.
Reverse side - number 969. Screw - an inscription on a white ribbon in a red background, surrounded by a green laurel wreath - ILINDEN. Made especially for the project of IMRO "Independent Macedonia" PERFECT UNIQUE, PART OF BULGARIAN MACEDONIAN
The organizers of this project were persecuted by the authorities because they wanted to secede territories from the state to create an independent Macedonia, and all materials and objects related to them were confiscated and destroyed. That is why only this one of the made badges survived - it was skillfully hidden.
HISTORY PROJECT HISTORY:
The idea of ​​"Independent Macedonia" was born after the First World War, after the separation of the Macedonian from the Thracian liberation movement. Then in a number of official documents of IMRO the well-known term "autonomy" was used, identical to "independence", "independence". Todor Alexandrov motivated the slogan "Independent Macedonia" with several arguments: a means of preserving the integrity and indivisibility of Macedonia; way of rebutting Serbian and Greek territorial claims; the stated readiness of the Bulgarian government to return the Pirin region in order to "create an independent state from Macedonia under the protection of the great powers."
(The same proposal was made after the end of the Second World War [2]) On the other hand, the printed organ of the organization of Macedonian refugees in Bulgaria is called the newspaper "Independent Macedonia". The introductory article in its first issue noted that the legal struggle was aimed at "raising Macedonia within its geographical and economic borders to an independent state". The inscription "Independent Macedonia" is placed on the distinctive and award signs of IMRO, etc. The term "independent Macedonia" has been popular since
the assassination of Todor Alexandrov.
The Macedonian Bulgarians from the period between the wars are convinced of the correctness of the complementary starting points for "autonomous and independent Macedonia". And with Ivan Mihailov, the idea of ​​"Independent Macedonia" is a leading political goal. The interwar autonomist position is most fully clarified in the thesis prepared by Ivan Mihailov, and probably by Yordan Chkatrov, entitled "Why are we fighting for an independent Macedonia?" that IMRO retains the traditional autonomous formula as a means of resolving the Macedonian issue.
The accusations of untimely raising of the slogan "Independent Macedonia" were rejected. This was done because the slogan in question is a historically justified beginning of all Macedonian organizations. The answer to the question posed by the opponents of IMRO is also clear - "Are Macedonians a separate nation, so they do not want to remain within the borders of today's existing Balkan states?"
The position for an independent Macedonia has no anti-Bulgarian orientation, because “there is no separate Macedonian nationality, the Macedonian Slavs are Bulgarians and part of the spiritual whole of the Bulgarian nation, and the Macedonian people is a geographical and political concept. It determines the population that will envelop the future Macedonian state. "
In early September 1944, Adolf Hitler contacted Ivan Mihailov, who was in the Independent Croatian State at the time, in the hope that the latter would be able to proclaim the Independent Republic of Macedonia. Mihailov visited Sofia and after consultations left for Skopje. He stayed there for several days between September 5 and 9 and drilled among the former structures of the IMRO, making contact with the units of "Security". He is convinced that he lacks enough support and that Tito's communist partisans are on the rise. Mihailov realizes that Germany is losing the war and Bulgaria is facing occupation by the USSR and tells the Germans that it is too late and refuses the German offer.
Source: Wikipedia