1. Dimitar Vlahov was a politician from the region of Macedonia and member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement.
15 Facts About Dimitar Vlahov
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Dimitar Vlahov studied chemistry in Germany and Switzerland, where he took part in socialist circles.
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In 1903, Dimitar Vlahov entered a military service in the reserve officer's school in Sofia.
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In 1905, Dimitar Vlahov was released and went back to Bulgaria where he worked as a teacher in Kazanlak.
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Dimitar Vlahov was then sent as Bulgarian consul to Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire.
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When IMRO was re-established in 1920, Dimitar Vlahov was elected as an alternate member of its Central Committee, representing the left wing.
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On behalf of IMRO, Dimitar Vlahov left in July 1923 for Moscow.
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Dimitar Vlahov became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
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The question was studied in the highest institutions of the Comintern and in the autumn of 1933, Dimitar Vlahov arrived in Moscow and took part in a number of meetings.
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Dimitar Vlahov's intervention seemed key in the adoption of this resolution since it was doubtful that the Comintern had such a clear vision of the identity issues in Macedonia.
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From 1936 to 1944, Dimitar Vlahov lived in the Soviet Union.
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In November 1943, Dimitar Vlahov participated in the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia and was elected in the presidium representing Aegean Macedonia.
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Dimitar Vlahov was dismissed, because he communicated much better in Bulgarian than in Macedonian and had little political support in SR Macedonia, among other reasons.
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Dimitar Vlahov in his 1950 book Macedonia-Comments of the History of the Macedonian People, claimed that modern Macedonians came from a fusion of Slavs with the ancient Macedonians, that Samuel of Bulgaria's empire was a Macedonian state, and that Cyril and Methodius were Macedonians' gift to Slavism, among other assertions.
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In July 1950, Dimitar Vlahov was elected in the Committee of Foreign Affairs for members of the Federal Council as part of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Yugoslavia.