22 Facts About Vlado Chernozemski

Vlado Chernozemski was a Bulgarian revolutionary and assassin.

Vlado Chernozemski killed two notable Bulgarian politicians, communist Dimo Hadzhidimov, and IMRO member Naum Tomalevski.

Vlado Chernozemski trained a group of three Ustase to assassinate Alexander of Yugoslavia, but eventually killed Alexander himself on 9 October 1934 in Marseille.

Vlado Chernozemski was then beaten by French police and spectators, and died the same day.

For murdering King Alexander I, Vlado Chernozemski was posthumously declared the most dangerous terrorist in Europe.

Vlado Chernozemski's mother died when he was 14 years old and the young Kerin was induced to help his father feed the family along with his younger brother and two sisters.

Vlado Chernozemski used different aliases and pseudonyms such as Vlado Georgiev Chernozemski, Peter Kelemen, Vlado the Chauffeur, Rudolph Suk, Vladimir Dimitrov Vladimirov etc.

Vlado Chernozemski joined the IMRO in 1922 in the unit of the voivode Ivan Barlyo.

Vlado Chernozemski entered the region of Vardar Macedonia with IMRO bands and participated in more than 15 skirmishes with Yugoslav police.

Vlado Chernozemski soon became one of the best marksmen in the organization, known for his courage, sangfroid and discipline.

Mihailov assigned Vlado Chernozemski to assassinate MP Dimo Hadzhidimov, a member of the Communist Party of Bulgaria and former IMRO member.

Vlado Chernozemski was arrested and sentenced to death by hanging for Hadzhidimov's assassination, but his execution was never carried out.

In 1927, Vlado Chernozemski proposed to the IMRO Central Committee to enter the main conference building of the League of Nations in Paris and detonate grenades attached to his person, in order to attract the attention of the world and generate publicity over the question of the Bulgarians in Macedonia, but his proposal was rejected.

In 1930, Vlado Chernozemski, following an order by Mihailov, assassinated another member of the IMRO, Naum Tomalevski, and his bodyguard.

Vlado Chernozemski moved to Italy, where he became an instructor for the Ustase in a camp in Borgotaro.

Vlado Chernozemski was then transferred to the Ustase camp in Janka-Puszta, near Nagykanizsa in Hungary.

The main purpose of this camp was planning for the assassination of King Alexander I Chernozemski was the instructor of the group of three Ustasas: Mijo Kralj, Zvonimir Pospisil, and Ivan Raic, who were preparing to assassinate the king.

Vlado Chernozemski later concluded that the other members of the group were unprepared psychologically.

Vlado Chernozemski shot Alexander repeatedly, hitting him twice, once in the abdomen and the other in the heart; King Alexander died within minutes.

Vlado Chernozemski then received a non-mortal bullet wound in the head from a nearby police officer, and was fatally beaten by the enraged crowd while the police stood back and watched.

Vlado Chernozemski was buried in an unmarked grave in the Marseille cemeteries with only two detectives and the gravediggers present.

Vlado Chernozemski's act was celebrated in Croat and Macedonian circles.