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Macedonia between the Two World
Wars
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Under the influence of the October Revolution, the socialist organizations
in Skopje, Veles, Bitola were renewed. The activity of the Communist
Party strengthened also, preparing itself for a revolutionary reorganization
of Yugoslavia as a soviet republic. There were two Great-Serbian bourgeoisic
parties in Macedonia -The Radical and The Democratic. But, the communists
won in Skopje, Veles, Kumanovo and Kavadartsi on the elections in 1920.
On the elections for the Constitutional Assembly of Yugoslavia, from
Macedonia, the CP got most of the voices. The communist members of the
Parliament refused to take oat before the King Karadjordje at the beginning
of the work of the Constitutional Assembly in Belgrade (12.12.192O),
and, on December 30, l920, the CPY acclaimed the law with an act of
the Announcement. On June 28,l921, the Vidovdenski Constitution, by
which the Kingdom of SHS was promoted as centralistic state with the
hegemony of the Serbs, the Croatians and the Slovenians, was announced.
The Vardar Macedonia was subjected to an intensive colonizing with a
Serbian population. The activity of the vrhovists-supremacists elements
of the IMRO had empowered also. Gjorche
Petrov, Dimo Hadji Dimo, Petar Pop Arsov organized a Temporary representative
of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization, pleading for
autonomy of Macedonia and for its existence in a federal state. But,
after the killing of Gjorche Petrov, on June 6, l921, the Temporary
representation collapsed and Todor Aleksandrov, Aleksandar Protogjerov
and Vancho Mihajlov formed organizations of IMRO in Bulgaria, which
entered the Yugoslav part of Macedonia and made terrors and attentats.
The government immediately formed military-chetnic organization with
a residence in Shtip, governed by the vojvodata (duke)Kosta Pekjanats
who had unlimited power. The population was put under great terror.
For only one year (1922-1923) there were 63 attentats. The population
was robbed, maltreated and killed by the comities of Mihajlov and the
Yugoslav power, and also by the paramilitary organizations. King Aleksandar
Karadjordjevich suspended the constitution and dismissed the Assembly
on January 6, l929. Such an absolutistic-dictator regime in Macedonia
made nonexistence of the national remarks and brought the greater state
nationalism and the doctrine of " United Yugoslav Nation ". On October
3,1931, the king gave a, so-called, Octroisan (or gifted) constitution
by which he had the right to form an appropriate government for his
needs, but not for the needs of the two-house Assembly. The role of
the CPY was growing gradually, especially with the appearance of Josip
Broz Tito as an secretary of the organization. In 1936, the MANAPO movement
(Macedonian peoples movement) was founded in Macedonia and it fought
for national liberation of the Macedonian people, but in the federal
state. On the parliamentarian elections in 1938, MANAPO did not have
its candidates, because of the government's bans.