1. Ivan Mihailov actively cooperated with revanchist powers, such as Mussolini's Fascist Italy, Admiral Horthy's Hungary and Hitler's Nazi Germany.
16 Facts About Ivan Mihailov
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Ivan Mihailov is still regarded as such in what is today North Macedonia, while the organization he led is seen as a controversial Bulgarian organization because its ideas clash with the Yugoslav Macedonian historical narrative.
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Ivan Mihailov was later partially rehabilitated there, supporting the Bulgarian narrative that negates the existence of a widespread Macedonian national identity before the end of World War II and he has been fully rehabilitated today.
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Ivan Mihailov Mihaylov was born on 26 August 1896 in the village of Novo Selo, in the Kosovo vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
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Ivan Mihailov later continued his schooling at a Serbian school in Skopje, then in the Kingdom of Serbia.
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Gradually Ivan Mihailov Mihaylov was established as a legal political figure and author of the ideology of the Bulgarian national liberation movement in Macedonia.
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Ivan Mihailov expressed his hope for such an interview on Radio Vatican, which contacted Anton Popov, a journalist at the same station.
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Popov was one of the persons abroad that Ivan Mihailov Mihaylov trusted most.
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Ivan Mihailov wrote four books of memoirs and regularly wrote articles for The Macedonian Tribune, the oldest continuously published Macedonian emigre newspaper.
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Ivan Mihailov's memory is honoured and his name is taken from streets and schools in the whole of Bulgaria.
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In North Macedonia, Ivan Mihailov Mihaylov has been regarded as a controversial pro-Bulgarian revolutionary.
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Ivan Mihailov was a follower of the idea about an independent United Macedonian multiethnic state with a prevailing ethnic Bulgarian element, something as "Switzerland on the Balkans".
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Ivan Mihailov declared that Macedonia is Bulgarian and the Slavs in Macedonia are Bulgarian.
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Ivan Mihailov believed that the Macedonians are part of the Bulgarian nation and the founders of IMRO were people who accepted the San Stefano Bulgaria.
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Ivan Mihailov regarded his IMRO as "a purely Bulgarian affair", and him as "a terrorist and an exponent of Bulgarian revanchism".
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Ivan Mihailov claimed in 1979 in Rome, that SR Macedonia was just a Yugoslav satellite and even if it became completely independent, it would be harmful to Bulgaria.