Post by Bozur on Dec 17, 2017 23:12:43 GMT -5
Article:
www.kurir.rs/region/2960123/vladari-baruta-narkotika-i-revolucije-evo-kako-je-delovala-ozloglasena-organizacija-vmro-i-njihovo-carstvo-podzemlja?ref=fbkurir
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GOVERNORS OF EXPLOSIVES, NARCOTICS AND REVOLUTIONS:
Here's how the notorious VMRO organization and their empire of the underworld
Region 17.12.2017. 21: 22h 17, 2017
The term "Balkan Columbia", although it sounds like a flicker from a modern tabloid, was actually designed by a US correspondent in the mid-thirties of the last century.
They initially called the region of Vardar and Pirin Macedonia, from which came the largest amount of opium that was then smuggled into the United States. All this has direct ties to the VMRO (acronym of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization), a terrorist organization that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in Thessaloniki. Initially, the main goal of this organization was the liberation from the Turks. VMRO was almost the state in small, committees were headed, committees formed, and the organization itself had its own constitution, courts, secret mail, couriers ...
Already at the time of the Balkan wars, Macedonia had deployed 170 comitian companies. They led various guerrilla actions, diversions, assassinations of Turkish leaders and administrators. At about that time, VMRO launched its anti-Serb policy because, although King Alexander and his men in Belgrade felt that Macedonia, Old Serbia was liberated, leaders of the VMRO had a different opinion, they claimed that Serbia occupied them.
Paradise
As a kind of parastatal with all the accompanying "apparatus", including the army, VMRO had thousands of people on the payroll. And these people had to be paid regularly. So it is connected nicely with useful, so the smuggling of tobacco and later drugs became a regular source that financed the "revolution". The drug was produced in good part in Bulgaria, where at one point there were even nine illegal factories, and the largest one was in Radomir, whose owner was Metodij Lazov.
Vanco Mihaylov, photo: YT Printscreen
According to the precise data of the Central Information Bureau for Drugs, only in the first two months of the operation, this plant produced a ton of heroin, and then drugs were smuggled into suitcases across large European ports in the US, primarily in New York. Hence the interest of American newspaper correspondents on this topic. Of course, it should not be noted that this dirty work was genuinely helped by corrupt Serbian politicians, officials and police officers.
Ideologists
The most famous ideologists of the VMRO were Goce Delchev, Ladies Gruev, Đorče Petrov, Jane Sandanski, Dime Hadži-Dimov ... However, probably the most famous among them was Ivan Vančo Mihajlov, who in 1929 with Anton Pavelić concluded an agreement on a joint fight against Yugoslavia . Although there are certain links, Damjan Hadzi Arsov, the figure of a Macedonian terrorist detained in "Glavnjaci", is not based on Mihailov, but is simply a fictitious person, and only his name and surname was created as a combination of the name and surname of the other two VMRO leaders. Hadži Arsov is a Macedonian from the small town of Bukovo, while Mihailov Bugarin from Novo Selo and his real name was Ivan Mihailov Gavrilov.
Toni Mihajlovski as Damjan Hadzi Arsov, photo: YT Printscreen
Recently, an article appeared in the Utrinsky Journal, where it is claimed that Vanco Mihajlov on the mortal stage said that "the Macedonian nation does not exist". Consequently, the fictional Hadzi Arsov has more similarities with the Macedonian revolutionary Damian Damet Gruev, who died in 1906 in a settlement with the Turks, but with the ethnic Bulgarian Mihailo.
Assassin
As for Damjan's sister Jovana, she is partly based on the real personality. It is Mara or Marija Buneva, who on January 13, 1928 committed the assassination of the Serbian colonel and lawyer of the Skopje banister Velimir Prelic. Namely, she intercepted Peric on the old Dusan's Bridge (Macedonian historians call this bridge, of course, stone) and, according to one version, shot him several times in the back (Macedonian historians, of course, claim that he shot him in the chest) Throwing a bomb. After that she decided for herself and Peric died from the consequences of the assassination in the hospital after three days. Interesting controversies are around her character, which lasts even today.
Macedonians own it as their "revolutionary", while the Bulgarians disagree with it because the training was held in Sofia and considered Bugar and its "heroin", even between 1926 and 1934 in Plovdiv there was a women's association with her name. After the occupation in 1941, the Bulgarian occupiers put a memorial plaque on the scene of the assassination. The communists removed it after the liberation, to be re-established in 2002, but it was destroyed and thrown into Vardar only three days later. It was rebuilt only a year later and the next day, it experienced the same fate ...
And Al Capone was ridiculous
How many VMRO leaders were notorious and serious criminals, says one record of the Dutch writer Van den Dolard. During his four-month stay in Bulgaria, he noted that "the American gangsters Al Kapone and the late Jack Diamond are just crazy when they come up with the leaders of the Committee."
(Kurir.rs/Dejan Stojiljković / Blic)
(Photo: YT Printscreen)