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{{Short description|Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1872–1915)}} |
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|name=Yane Ivanov Sandanski |
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|birth_date= May 18, 1872 |
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| honorific_prefix = Voivode |
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|birth_place= Vlahi, [[Ottoman Empire]] (present-day [[Bulgaria]]) |
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| name = Yane Sandanski |
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|death_date= {{death date and age|mf=yes|1915|4|22|1872|5|18}} |
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| native_name = Яне Сандански |
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|death_place= Popovi livadi, [[Bulgaria]] |
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| caption = Yane Sandanski {{circa|1900}} |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1872|05|18|df=y}} |
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|other_names=Jane Sandanski |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|04|22|1872|05|18|df=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Vlahi (village)|Vlahi]], [[Ottoman Empire]] |
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|organization= [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] (IMRO) |
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| death_place = Blatata, near [[Pirin (Bulgarian village)|Pirin]], [[Tsardom of Bulgaria]] |
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| placeofburial = [[Rozhen Monastery]] |
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| birth_name = Yane Ivanov Sandanski |
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|religion= [[Bulgarian Exarchate|Bulgarian Orthodox]] [[christian]] (assumed) |
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| allegiance = * {{flagicon image|Gorna Dzhumaya rebellion 1895 flag.jpg}} [[Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee|SMAC]] |
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* {{flagicon image|Flag of the IMRO.svg}} [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|IMRO]] |
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* {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} [[Tsardom of Bulgaria]] |
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| branch = [[File:Bulgaria war flag.png|20px]] [[Bulgarian Army]] |
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| battles = [[Ilinden Uprising]]<br>[[Macedonian Struggle]]<br>[[Balkan Wars]] |
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*[[First Balkan War]] |
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*[[Second Balkan War]] |
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| signature = File:Yane Sandanski Signature (vectorized).svg |
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'''Yane Ivanov Sandanski''' ({{Langx|bg|Яне Иванов Сандански}}, {{Langx|mk|Јане Иванов Сандански|Jane Ivanov Sandanski}};<ref>{{cite book |editor1=John Neubauer |editor2=Marcel Cornis-Pope |title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries |date=2004 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |isbn=9789027234537 |pages=358, 506}}</ref> Originally spelled in [[Reforms of Bulgarian orthography|older Bulgarian orthography]] as {{Lang|bg|Яне Ивановъ Сандански}} (Yane Ivanov Sandanski);<ref>Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховиститѣ, съобщава Л. Милетичъ (Издава „Македонскиятъ Наученъ Институтъ", София - Печатница П. Глушковъ - 1927), стр. 11.</ref> 18 May 1872 – 22 April 1915) was a [[Macedonian Bulgarians|Macedonian Bulgarian]] revolutionary and leader of the left-wing of the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation]] (IMARO).<ref>{{cite web |quote=IMRO was founded in 1893 in Thessaloníki; its early leaders included Damyan Gruev, Gotsé Delchev, and Yane Sandanski, men who had a Macedonian regional identity and a Bulgarian national identity. |author=Loring Danforth |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Internal-Macedonian-Revolutionary-Organization |title=Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization |website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> |
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[[File:Pravilnik-sandanski.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Statute of People Federative Party (Bulgarian section), written in the Bulgarian language: "...a member of the party can be any Bulgarian, Ottoman citizen twenty years of age or older..."<ref>The statute was first published in the "Narodna volja" newspaper: "Народна воля" бр. 1, 1909</ref> In addition, as pursuant to Article 1, it's said that "a citizen of another nationality is accepted as a member, until a party section for that nationаlity is established.".<ref>[https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/988838_866747330017825_1608661020_n.jpg?oh=0936e375f5f04bcea2b3fcbf3d80141e&oe=54AEC630 same source]</ref>]] |
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[[File:Sandanski v bg armia.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Yané Sandansky as a [[conscript]] in the [[Bulgarian Army]]]] |
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In his youth Sandanski was involved in the anti-Ottoman struggle, joining initially the [[Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee]] (SMAC), but later switched to IMARO. As an activist of the [[Liberal Party (Radoslavists)]], he became the head of the local prison in [[Dupnitsa]]. After the Ilinden uprising, Sandanski became the leader of the [[Serres revolutionary district]]. He supported the idea of a [[Balkan Federation]], and [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] as [[Autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople regions|an autonomous state within its framework]], as an ultimate solution of the national problems in the area. During the [[Second Constitutional Era]] he became an Ottoman politician, collaborating with the [[Young Turks]] and founding the [[People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section)|Bulgarian People's Federative Party]].<ref>{{cite book |quote=The other prominent member of the [[Socialist Workers' Federation]], besides the Sephardic Circle and the “anarcho-liberals,” was the People’s Federative Party–Bulgarian Section. The latter was founded in April 1909 by IMRO members who actively participated in the Young Turk Revolution and the “Army of Freedom” march on Istanbul to quell the countercoup in 1909. It was strongly divided along ideological lines and different strategic choices around social democrats like Dimitîr Vlahov (1878–1953), nationalists with socialist leanings like Iane Sandanski (1872–1915), and nationalists like Khristo Chernopeev. |author=Maria Todorova |date=2020 |title=The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |page=64 |isbn=1350150347}}</ref> Sandanski took up arms on the side of Bulgaria during the [[Balkan Wars]] (1912–13). Afterwards, he became involved in Bulgarian public life again but was assassinated by the rivalling IMARO right-wing faction activists. |
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'''Yane Ivanov Sandanski''' or '''Jane Ivanov Sandanski''', ({{Lang-bg|Яне Сандански}}, {{Lang-mk|Јане Сандански}}) (May 18, 1872, Vlahi, [[Ottoman Empire]], present-day [[Bulgaria]] - April 22, 1915, near [[Melnik, Bulgaria]]) was a revolutionary recognised as a national hero in the [[Republic of Macedonia]], and in [[Bulgaria]], even though he was a national separatist, and fought for an independent Macedonian nation-state.<ref>''During the [[Balkan wars|war]], the IMRO had a practical autonomy of the [[Pirin Macedonia]], its completely own regime. Our goal was autonomy of the entire Macedonia, and then make it an independent state. That was the ideal of our Macedonian national hero Sandanski.'' - Todor Panitsa interviewed by Elefterios Stavridis - ''Τα Παρασκηνια του ΚΚΕ'', Athens, 1953, [https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1901284_887487447943813_7414514422116623109_n.jpg?oh=73c4f5a5dae6fd6f23128ca7b0d7e18b&oe=54B09F9E&__gda__=1420961955_34abc6e2c8fc53df24fd1b5a1b230c3f pg. 216].</ref><ref>„Yane Sandanski about the distinctiveness of Macedonia and the Macedonians“ „Јане Сандански и македонското национално дело“, [[Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts|MANU]], Skopje, 2007, pg. 89-96.</ref><ref>Sandanski’s moto is “Macedonia for the Macedonins”… ([http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56138984/f206.image a letter of the French diplomat in Constantinople], August 10, 1905).</ref> He was among the leaders of the [[Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization]] (IMARO) in the [[Serres]] region and head of the [[extreme left]]ist wing of the organization. |
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He is recognised as a national hero in both [[Bulgaria]] and [[North Macedonia]],<ref>{{cite book |quote=The way Bulgarian and Macedonian history and identities are intertwined is exemplified by the dispute over the identity of revolutionary heroes such as Gotse Delchev and Yane Sandanski. Bulgarian nationalists, for example, ridicule their Macedonian counterparts' identification with Sandanski, since archival documents refer to him as Bulgarian. |author=Vemund Aarbakke |chapter=Images of imperial legacy: The impact of nationalizing discourse on the image of the last years of Ottoman rule in Macedonia |page=121 |title=Images of Imperial Legacy, Modern Discourses on the social and cultural impact of Ottoman and Habsburg rule in Southeast Europe |editor1=Tea Sindbæk |editor2=Maxmilian Hartmuth |isbn=3643108508 |date=2011 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster}}</ref> but his identity is also disputed between both countries. While [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] honoured him,<ref>{{cite book |author1=Frederick F. Anscombe |title=State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107729674 |page=153}}</ref> after the [[Revolutions of 1989|fall of communism]] he has been described by Bulgarian nationalist historians as a betrayer of the Bulgarian national interests and collaborator with the Turks. On the contrary, in North Macedonia, the positive connotation of him, created in the times of [[Communist Yugoslavia]] is still alive, and he has been portrayed there as a fighter against the "Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia" and the "Turkish yoke." |
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== Biography == |
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Sandanski was born in the Macedonian-populated village of Vlahi near [[Kresna]] in [[Ottoman Empire]] on May 28, 1872.<ref>[http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/mm/mm_1.htm [[Mercia MacDermott]]. ''For Freedom and Perfection. The Life of Yane Sandansky'', 1988, Published by Journeyman, London, ISBN 1-85172-014-6, ISBN 978-1-85172-014-9, OCLC 16465550, pg. 1.]</ref> His father Ivan participated as a flag carrier in the [[Kresna-Razlog Uprising]]. After the crush of the uprising, in 1879 his family moved to [[Dupnitsa]], Bulgaria, where Sandanski received his elementary education. Until 1895 Sandanski was a Bulgarian state employee. |
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== Life == |
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Yane Sandanski was involved in the Revolutionary Movement in Macedonia and [[Thrace]] and became one of its leaders. Since the start of his revolutionary activity, he gained popularity because he protected the local villagers in [[Pirin Macedonia]] from the tyranny of the Ottomans, organizing courts and taught self-defence. Sandanski lived and fought in the [[Pirin]] region, and that is why the people gave him the nickname "[[Pirin]][[Tsar]]" (Pirinski Tsar). He was one from the organizers of the [[Miss Stone Affair]] - America's first modern hostage crisis. On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. Sandanski was also active in the anti-[[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising]]. The Militias active in the region of [[Serres]], led by Yane Sandanski and an insurgent detachment of the ''Macedonian Supreme Committee'', held down a large Turkish force. These actions began on the day of the [[Feast of the Cross]] and did not involve the local population as much as in other regions, but were well to the east of [[Monastir, Macedonia|Monastir]] and to the west of [[Thrace]]. |
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===Early life and activity=== |
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[[File:Sandanski v bg armia.jpg|180px|thumb|Yane Sandanski in the [[Bulgarian Army]] {{circa|1892}}]] |
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Sandanski was born on 18 May 1872 in the village of [[Vlahi (village)|Vlahi]] near [[Kresna]], then in the [[Ottoman Empire]], now in Bulgaria.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |editor1=Wojciech Roszkowski |editor2=Jan Kofman |title=Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century |date=2008 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=9780765610270 |pages=882-883}}</ref> He was the third and last child of Ivan and Milka, after Todor and Sofia. His father Ivan participated in the [[Kresna-Razlog Uprising]] as a [[standard-bearer]] in a rebel detachment. In 1879, after the suppression of the uprising, his family moved to [[Dupnitsa]], in the recently established [[Principality of Bulgaria]], where Sandanski received his elementary education. He had to drop out of school after completing two years of post-elementary education due to poverty and became the apprentice of a shoemaker. From 1892 to 1894 he was subject to compulsory military service in the [[Bulgarian army]], as part of the Thirteenth Regiment which was stationed in Kyustendil, and he was demobilized with the rank of corporal.<ref name="mm">{{cite book |author=Mercia MacDermott |author-link=Mercia MacDermott |title=For Freedom and Perfection: The Life of Yané Sandansky |date=1988 |publisher=Journeyman Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-85172-014-9 |pages=1-3, 23, 42, 29-32, 67, 74, 83, 164-166, 241, 349-350, 466, 478}}</ref> He joined initially the [[Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee]] (SMAC) in 1895 during the [[Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action|Committee's cheta action]] into the [[Tamrash Republic|Pomaks-inhabited regions]] of the Western [[Rhodopes]].<ref name="db">{{cite book |author=Dimitar Bechev |title=Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia |edition=2nd |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2019 |isbn=1538119625 |pages=60, 113, 261-263}}</ref> In 1897 in Dupnitsa, a new detachment of the Supreme Committee was formed, under the leadership of Krastyo Zahariev, where Sandanski joined too. After the detachment entered Pirin Mountains, it encountered Ottoman troops. In one of the battles Sandanski was wounded and his detachment returned him to Bulgaria for treatment.<ref name="mm" /> Sandanski operated as an activist of [[Liberal Party (Radoslavists)|Radoslavov's wing of the Liberal Party]] and shortly after it came to power in February 1899, he was appointed head of the Dupnitsa prison.<ref>Деметра Андонова, интервю с д-р Георги Георгиев: Яне Сандански заслужава паметен знак в Дупница, но обществото ни не е готово за този дебат. [https://kamerton.news/content/content/details/1302/lang/1 18.05.2019 г. Kamerton.]</ref> He switched to the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) in 1901. He built the organisation's network of committees in the districts of Serres and Gorna Dzhumaya.<ref name="db" /> Due to the organisation's bad financial situation, he had to ponder different ways to earn money.<ref name="mm" /> He settled on kidnapping an American Protestant missionary for ransom. On 3 September 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone along with her companions set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Macedonia and were ambushed by his detachment led by him and his friend [[Hristo Chernopeev]]. She was kidnapped along with her Bulgarian companion Katerina Tsilka.<ref name="mm" /> It resulted in the [[Miss Stone Affair]] - America's first modern hostage crisis. SMAC attempted to acquire both women but the attempt was foiled by Sandanski.<ref name="rd">{{cite book |author=Raymond Detrez |title=The A to Z of Bulgaria |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810872028 |pages=390-391, 423 |edition=2nd}}</ref> The affair ended after the organisation received the ransom money (which was used to purchase weapons) and the women were released.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="nla">{{cite book |author=Nadine Lange-Akhund |title=The Macedonian Question, 1893-1908, from Western Sources |date=1998 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=9780880333832 |pages=96-97, 234-238, 253, 263-264}}</ref> |
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===Activity in IMARO=== |
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[[File:Deliradev.jpg|right|thumb|380px|[[Pavel Deliradev]], Yane Sandanski and [[Todor Panitsa]] photorapphed in [[1908]].]] |
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In 1902, Sandanski persuaded the [[Vlachs]] in the [[Sanjak of Siroz|sanjak of Serres]] from Melnik, mostly shepherds, to join his Serres committee, in exchange for his protection against soldiers and detachments.<ref name="nla" /> He came to be known as the "Tsar of Pirin."<ref>{{cite book |author=Keith Brown |title=The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation |date=2003 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691099958 |page=270}}</ref> Sandanski was opposed to the [[Ilinden uprising]], considering it premature, although he did participate in the military actions in the region of Serres.<ref name="rd" /> The failure of the Ilinden uprising resulted in the split of the IMRO into a left-wing (federalist) faction in the Serres and Strumica districts and a right-wing (centralist) faction in the [[Bitola]] and [[Skopje]] districts. The left-wing faction advocated the creation of a [[Balkan Federation]] (including Macedonia) with equality for all subjects and nationalities, as well as favouring the decentralisation of IMRO. The right-wing faction of IMRO aimed for the unification of Macedonia with Bulgaria and advocated for centralisation to counter the incursions of Serb and Greek bands into Macedonia.<ref name="db" /><ref name="mh">{{cite journal |author=Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu |title=Yane Sandanski as a political leader in Macedonia in the era of the Young Turks |journal=Cahiers balkaniques |date=2012 |pages=1-14 |doi=10.4000/ceb.1192 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/1192 |issn=0290-7402}}</ref> Per Bulgarian historian and former IMARO member [[Hristo Silyanov]], Sandanski's faction sentenced [[Boris Sarafov]] to death in 1904.<ref name="mm" /> Sandanski created observation posts in his district order to watch for Turkish detachments, and the peasants were forced to warn or be killed. He also organised military training for all able men. Several people in his district were executed as collaborators. French consul Guillois described Sandanski as "a ferocious man, bloodthirsty...who enjoys an absolute authority over all Bulgarian villages to the northeast of Salonika."<ref name="nla" /> Sandanski justified the executions in an open letter to him and argued that the organisation had the right to ignore the law of the land and to punish as it saw fit.<ref name="mm" /> |
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[[File:Јане Сандански и младотурскиот деец Нуредин-бег.JPG|right|thumb|Yane Sandanski as [[collaborationist]], posing in front of [[Ottoman flag]] with [[Young Turks]] activist Nurredin Beg.]] |
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Since 1908 until the [[Balkan Wars]] he supported the movement of the [[Young Turks]]. After the [[Young Turk Revolution]] during the [[Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire)|Second Constitutional Era]] Sandanski was also founder and leader of one of the left political parties in Ottoman Macedonia – [[Peoples' Federative Party (Bulgarian Section)]], whose headquarters was in [[Solun]]. The [[Kjustendil]] congress of [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] (IMARO) in 1908 led to a disintegration of the organization – Yane Sandanski and [[Hristo Chernopeev]] contacted the [[Young Turks]] and started legal operation. After the disintegration of IMARO, the two first tried to set up the Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (MORO). Later, the congress for MORO's official inauguration failed. Sandanski and Chernopeev abandoned the idea of MORO, and they started to work towards a creation of the Peoples' Federative Party. In 1909 the group around Sandanski and Chernopeev participated in the rally of the [[Young Turks]] to [[Istanbul]] that led to the deposition of sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] from the throne. Sandanski dreamed about the creation of a [[Balkan Federative Republic]] according to the plans of the [[Balkan Socialist Federation]] and Macedonia as a part of that Federation.<ref>In the Directive issued by the Federalists in 1904, the Balkan Federation was stated to be the ‘sole way for the salvation of all’, and their whole subsequent policy stemmed from their recognition of the fact that, in order to solve the Macedonian problem in a manner satisfactory to the Bulgarian population, it was necessary for the Organization to win the good will and trust of all the nationalities who lived there. More recently, the escalation of chauvinist activity on the part of the Greeks and Serbs, inspired and financed by their respective governments, had led a number of people to the realization that, since an autonomous Macedonia would, to all intents and purposes, be a Bulgarian Macedonia, the Greeks and Serbs would never countenance its establishment, and therefore the achievement of autonomy for Macedonia—however desirable from the Bulgarian point of view—was not a practical possibility, unless it were to come about as part of a much wider progressive political process involving the whole Turkish Empire and the other Balkan states.(See Pavel Deliradev, Razvitieto na federativnata ideya, Makedonska misal, Book 5-6, 1946, pp. 203-208.)</ref> He demanded that the IMARO should embrace all [[nationalities]] in the region, not only Bulgarians.<ref>''Today, all of us, Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews and others, we have all sworn that we will work for our dear Fatherland and will be inseparable, and we will all sacrifice ourselves for it, and, if necessary, we will even shed our blood." - This part of Yané's speech held in the town of [[Nevrokop]] during the [[Young Turk Revolution]] is quoted from a hand-written leaflet, bearing the seal of the Razlog Committee for Union and Progress, and a price, i.e. the leaflet was one of many copies made for sale. The leaflet was found among the papers of Lazar Kolchagov of Bansko, and was published by Ivan Diviziev in Istoricheski Pregled, 1964, Book 4 (Nov Dokument za Yané Sandansky).[http://promacedonia.org/en/mm/mm_19.htm#13.]</ref> |
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In 1905, the Rila Congress of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation adopted the main ideas of the left-wing faction led by Sandanski. The organisation changed its name to IMARO (Internal Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organisation) and allowed membership for people from European Turkey independently of sex, religion, nationality and conviction.<ref name="dm">{{cite book |title=We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe |editor=Diana Mishkova |publisher=Central European University Press |date=2009 |isbn=9639776289 |page=125-126, 129-130}}</ref> At the end of the congress, Sandanski confronted Sarafov, accusing him of having accepted money from the Serbs, having facilitated the transit of Serbian detachments into Macedonia and organising his own armed groups in order to weaken the organisation and take the leadership. In turn, Sarafov accused him of being a traitor due to his refusal to participate in the battles of the Ilinden uprising. However, the congress ended with the delegates deciding not to examine the cases of the leaders who could have violated the rules in order to preserve the organisation's unity. In 1906, his faction controlled Serres and Strumica and for geographical reasons, it rarely fought against Serbs or Greeks but often against Ottoman troops. Mihail Daev, who was a member of his committee, sent a letter to the right-wing faction in September 1907, where he asserted that as long as Sandanski was alive, there was no question of uniting the organisation again. The letter was discovered by [[Todor Panitsa]], an associate of Sandanski and on 10 October, the Serres committee sentenced Boris Sarafov, Ivan Garvanov and Mihail Daev to death.<ref name="nla" /> Panitsa assassinated Sarafov and Garvanov in the same year. After their assassination, Bulgarian authorities issued an arrest warrant against Sandanski.<ref name="igd">{{cite book |author=Igor Despot |title=The Balkan Wars in the Eyes of the Warring Parties: Perceptions and Interpretations |publisher=iUniverse |date=2012 |isbn=1475947038 |pages=15, 27, 66}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=M. Şükrü Hanioğlu |title=Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908 |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195134636 |page=244}}</ref> The [[Kyustendil]] congress of the right-wing faction of IMARO in 1908, sentenced him to death, which led to a final disintegration of the organisation.<ref name="dl">{{cite book |author=Denis Š. Ljuljanović |title=Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire: State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878–1912) |date=2023 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=9783643914460 |pages=219-221}}</ref> |
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According to his very close and loyal friend [[Todor Panitsa]], |
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{{Quote|— '''Sandanski was an Apostle of the [[Macedonian nation]].''' <ref>Todor Panitsa interviewed by Elefterios Stavridis; '''Ελευθέριος Σταυρίδης - [http://www.papasotiriou.gr/product/ta-paraskinia-toi-kke ''Τα Παρασκηνια του ΚΚΕ'']''', Athens, 1953, [https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/575858_481150755244153_1771646882_n.jpg?oh=aff67977ee0f87247b1a97c3e0628bbc&oe=54CD7E12&__gda__=1422501009_686afcc50771278d41b05a18e2aa2722 pg. 213].</ref>}} |
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Pavel Deliradev, also a fellow revolutionist of Sandanski's, name him as: |
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{{Quote|— '''a meritorious son of the Macedonian nation<ref>Pavel Deliradev's [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/47608518?access_key=key-qs0wta5vf8jbe9zptkd biography of Yane Sandanski], Sofia, 1946, pg. 44.</ref> who fought against the Bulgarian chauvinism, for a free, united and independent [[Macedonia (country)|Macedonian state]], which will have brotherly relations with all free Balkanic nations.<ref>same source, [https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/3w7googyf4tydxv/images/12-937b6feba0.jpg the exact page 13 of the ''Biography'']</ref>'''}} |
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=== Collaboration with the Young Turks === |
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In this way it would be possible to create a healthy system aimed at the organization of a mass uprising.<ref>''"Long ago you are regarding our Macedonian-Adrianopole question only as Bulgarian question. The struggle we are on, you consider as the struggle for triumph of the Bulgarian nationality over the others which are living with us. Let forget henceforth who is Bulgarian, who is Greek, who is Serbian, who is Vlah, but remember who is underprivileged slave."'' - A letter to the Greek citizens of Melnik, (Революционен лист (Revolutionary Sheet), № 3, 17.09.1904)</ref> Later Sandanski and his faction actively supported the [[Bulgarian army]] in the [[Balkan wars]] of 1912–1913, initially fighting for Bulgaria, but with the idea, that their duty is to fight for autonomous, and later – independent Macedonia.<ref>Hristo Konstantinov's [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59185920?access_key=key-8z1c4aeyfwmqil91anw Biography of Yane Sandanski], Sofia, 1944, pg. 70-72.</ref><ref>Ј. Богатинов - "Спомени", бр.11 од в. "Доброволец", 1945 г.</ref><ref>The Russian journalist Viktorov-Toparov, who met Yané in May 1913, wrote: At the beginning of 1913, when the Serbian and Greek occupation regime forced the Macedonians once again to consider the fate of their country, serious doubts had assailed Sandanski. And I shall always remember that evening in 1913 when Sandansky came to me to confide his doubts and vacillations: "There, look this always happens when someone is freed by force of arms! How fine it would have been if Macedonia could have freed herself! But now it's happened, our duty is to fight alongside Bulgaria, and for Bulgaria" - Sŭvremena Misŭl, 15.V.1915, pp. 24-25.</ref> Unfortunately, on a banquet organized by General [[Georgi Todorov (general)|Georgi Todorov]], when Sandanski tried to make a toast for the autonomy of Macedonia, the Bulgarian officers pulled their swords out and made it clear to him that their struggle is for full annexation of Macedonia to Bulgaria.<ref>Pavel Deliradev's [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/47608518?access_key=key-qs0wta5vf8jbe9zptkd Biography of Yane Sandanski], Sofia, 1946, [https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/377580_606366149389279_85815131_n.jpg?oh=79f1362f03953063f5b4e77d05d7ad41&oe=54F41E58&__gda__=1422018879_7fc74584a87da7715fc900b2cf0e97ec pg. 41].</ref><ref>Angel Dinev’s [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/48186687?access_key=key-8e9an7rj9j0pjcvfpe5 “Short biography of Yane Sandanski”], “Selected works of Angel Dinev”, Skopje, 1983, pg. 321-322.</ref> Sandanski had no power to protest against it, so his tactical struggle continued until his murder, about a year later. After the Balkan wars, the Bulgarian government gave him amnesty for all of his illegal activities, but he knew he was still being followed. He knew that the Bulgarian authorities were aware and afraid of his Macedonian national-separatist ideals.<ref>Ангел Динев, Илинденска епопеа, дел II, Скопје 1949., str. 548.</ref> |
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[[File:Sandanski, Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, Todor Panitsa with Young Turks.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Sandanski, [[Dimo Hadzhidimov]], [[Todor Panitsa]] and other ''Federalists'' with [[Young Turks]]]] |
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[[File:Jane Sandanski Manifest 1908.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The manifesto proclaimed by Sandanski at the beginning of the [[Young Turk Revolution]]. The socialist views of its author [[Pavel Deliradev]], who appealed to the Ottoman Bulgarians "not to fall prey to the propaganda that might be launched by the official authorities in Bulgaria against their joint struggle with the Turkish people", won the sympathies of the Young Turks.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Roumyana Preshelova |title=Cities in the Balkans: Spaces, Faces, Memories |location=Sofia |publisher=IBSCT-BAS |date=2021 |isbn=978-619-7179-20-0 |page=139}}</ref>]] |
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Sandanski and his faction decided to work with the [[Young Turks]] in 1907.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Christopher Psilos |title=From Cooperation to Alienation: An Insight into Relations between the Serres Group and the Young Turks during the Years 1906–9 |journal=European History Quarterly |date=2005 |volume=35 |issue=4 |page=546 |doi=10.1177/0265691405056877}}</ref> During the first days of [[Young Turk Revolution]], the collaboration of the Macedonian leftists with the Ottoman activists was stated in a special ''Manifesto to all the nationalities of the Empire''. Sandanski called his compatriots to discard the "propaganda" of official Bulgaria in order to live together in a peaceful way with the [[Turkish people]]. The manifesto was authored by Bulgarian socialist Pavel Deliradev but signed by Sandanski.<ref name="mm" /> The loyalty to the Empire declared by Sandanski deliberately blurred the distinction between Macedonian and Ottoman political agenda.<ref name="dm" /> Among the Ottoman public, Sandanski was known as "King of the Mountains" and "Sandan Pasha". After the revolution, Sandanski and Chernopeev worked towards creating a left-wing political party called [[People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section)|People's Federative Party]], whose headquarters were in [[Thessaloniki]] (Salonica).<ref name="dl" /> This federalist project was supposed to include different ethnic sections in itself, but this idea failed and the only section that was created was the faction of Sandanski, called ''Bulgarian section''. In this way its activists only "revived" their Bulgarian national identification, as Sandanski's faction advocated the particular interests of the "Bulgarian nationality" in the Empire.<ref name="dm" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Entangled Histories of the Balkans: Volume One |author1=Roumen Daskalov |author2=Tchavdar Marinov |publisher=BRILL |date=2013 |isbn=900425076X |page=303}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него |author=Коста Църнушанов |publisher=Унив. изд. "Св. Климент Охридски" |date=1992 |url=http://www.promacedonia.org/kc/cyrn13_b.html |page=101}}</ref> In 12 April 1909, a counter-revolution took place in Istanbul and conservative Muslim forces were able to gain control. The Young Turks gathered their forces in Salonica and marched upon the capital. A detachment of 1,200 IMARO revolutionaries took part under the command of him, Todor Panitsa, and Hristo Chernopeev.<ref>Bojinov, V. (2012). Bulgaria and the Young Turk Revolution (June 1908 – April 1909): The Beginning of the End of Ottoman Empire. Adam Academy Journal of Social Sciences, 2 (1). pp. 81-90.</ref> The capital was captured by the Young Turks. [[Abdul Hamid II]] was deposed from the throne.<ref name="va">{{cite book |author=Vemund Aarbakke |title=Ethnic Rivalry and the Quest for Macedonia, 1870-1913 |date=2003 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=9780880335270 |pages=148-151}}</ref> |
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Through his good relations with the [[Committee of Union and Progress]] (CUP), Sandanski contributed to the appointment of local administrators and the affairs of school education. At the beginning of 1910, however Chernopeev, who was the leader of the leftist group in Strumica, left politics and moved to Sofia. There, he founded a new illegal organization, the Bulgarian National Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Chernopeev also invited him to join him, however Sandanski ignored his invitation. The Bulgarian press launched a propaganda campaign against Sandanski. Sandanski was accused of betraying the Bulgarians in Macedonia, since he did not launch an armed resistance against the Ottoman government. The socialist groups in Bulgaria also criticised Sandanski as a collaborator of the Turks. Despite the pressure and critiques, Sandanski continued with his legitimate political activity. The CUP also wanted to carry out the disarmament of the population in the region dominated by Sandanski. Sandanski rejected the attempt, resulting in tension between him and the CUP. In the process of negotiations, Sandanski ensured the CUP that in his region he was responsible for all illegal actions and that it was unnecessary to disarm the population. The CUP accepted his proposition and halted the disarmament of the Christian population in the area.<ref name="mh" /> The rivaling faction's activists of IMARO organised several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Sandanski at that time. They came closest to achieving their goal in Thessaloniki, where [[Tane Nikolov]] managed to kill two of his comrades and heavily wounded Sandanski. |
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Οbserving the atrocity of [[Serbs]] over the local population, former [[IMORO]] members began restoration of the organizational network. In the same peiod a group around [[Petar Chaulev]] began negotiations with the [[Albanians|Albanian]] revolutionaries. The temporary Albanian government proposed to them a common revolt to be organized and risen. The negotiations from the part of the Organization had to be carried by [[Petar Chaulev]]. The Bulgarian government believed however, that it would not come to a new war with [[Serbia]], so it did not attend the negotiations. However later, in June 1913 the Bulgarian government sent in [[Tirana]] Yane Sandanski for new negotiations. He gave an interview for the newspaper "''Seculo''", where he said that he came to agreement with the Albanians and that from the Bulgarian side there would be organized bands and assaults. So he helped the preparation of the [[Ohrid-Debar Uprising]], organised jointly by IMORO and the Albanians of Western Macedonia.<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/dg/dgoc_4.htm ИДЕЯТА ЗА АВТОНОМИЯ КАТО ТАКТИКА В ПРОГРАМИТЕ НА НАЦИОНАЛНООСВОБОДИТЕЛНОТО ДВИЖЕНИЕ В МАКЕДОНИЯ И ОДРИНСКО, 1893-1941, Димитър Гоцев, Изд. на БАН, София, 1983; 1912- 1919 г.]</ref> After the [[Balkan wars|wars]], [[Pirin Macedonia]] was ceded to Bulgaria and he resettled again in the [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Kingdom]]. |
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[[File:Sandanski, Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, Todor Panitsa with Young Turks.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Sandanski, [[Dimo Hadzhidimov]], [[Todor Panitsa]] and other ''Federalists'' with [[Young Turks]]]] |
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=== Balkan Wars and aftermath === |
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== Controversy == |
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Sandanski was at the service of the Bulgarian army during the [[Balkan Wars]].<ref name="db" /> During the [[First Balkan War]], the area that Sandanski controlled was occupied by Bulgarian forces. Sandanski helped the occupying armies with his guerillas. The Macedonian Bulgarian detachments burned Muslim villages and massacred Muslims and within his region, they were treated in the same manner. The Muslim men and women of the village Petrovo were burnt to death and only the children were left alive. Per MacDermott, Sandanski was not aware about the incident. He usually tried to prevent such massacres on the Muslims. When he learned about this massacre in Petrovo, he gave the children of killed Muslims to the Bulgarian villagers.<ref name="mh" /> Sandanski had a unit under his control which fought together with the Bulgarians, but under independent command. It was located at the right flank of the [[7th Rila Infantry Division|Seventh Rila Division]], numbered 2,000 men and was also the unit that captured Melnik.<ref name="igd" /> Later, Sandanski and his comrades were included in the [[Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps]] and were active in the [[Adrianople |Adrianople region]]. In June 1913, the Bulgarian government sent a delegation headed by Sandanski to Albania for negotiations with the [[Provisional Government of Albania|provisional Albanian government]] for joint action in the event of a war with Serbia and Greece. He gave an interview for the Italian newspaper "''Il Secolo''" in [[Tirana]], where he said that he came to an agreement with the Albanians and that revolutionary activity would be renewed.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.promacedonia.org/dg/dgoc_4.htm |title=Идеята за автономия като тактика в програмите на национално-освободителното движение в Македония и Одринско (1893-1941) |author=Dimitŭr Got︠s︡ev |publisher=Изд. на БАН |date=1983 |pages=40-41 |language=bg}}</ref> |
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The Macedonian liberation movement consisted of three major factions. Led by his excessive ambitions, Sandanski came into conflict with the majority — the ''Centralists'' in IMARO and the ''Varhovists''. Although initially a member of the Bulgarian [[nationalistic]] ''Varhovists'' band, later Yane Sandanski and his [[Serres]] group (the ''Federalists'', or ''Sandanists'') proclaimed a fight for an [[autonomous]] Macedonia which was to be included in a [[Balkan Socialist Federation]]. In this manner, the policy of [[Sofia]] was completely identified to the adversary character of [[Athens]] and [[Belgrade]].<ref>Bulgaria was clearly treated by the Serres activists as a ''foreign, hostile force'' and Sandanski condemned what he called the ''Bulgarian imperialism''. According to him, the Macedonians (incl. all ethnicities) had to emancipate themselves as a ''self-determining people''(Siljanov, Ibid. 498).</ref> The activists of Serres nonetheless stipulated that the [[Macedonian Question]] could not be resolved if it is formulated as a part of a [[Bulgaria]]n [[national question]]. However, some claim that the idea of Macedonian autonomy was strictly [[political]] and did not imply a secession from Bulgarian ethnicity.<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/en/ib/i_banac.html The Macedoine, "The National Question in Yugoslavia. Origins, History, Politics", by Ivo Banac, Cornell University Press, 1984.]</ref><ref>"''The Bulgarians of the principality – if there be still some who dream of the Bulgaria of San Stefano, have no reason to object to the separatism of the Macedonian population. Irrespective of the harm that the dream of the Bulgaria of San Stefano might bring both now and in the future, irrespective of all the opportunities that political separatism can bring, there is one essential and important consequence of this doctrine, that is, the preservation of the Bulgarian tribe – whole, undivided, and bound by their spiritual culture, though separated politically. Without this politically separatism, the spiritual integrity of the Bulgarian tribe seems impossible. It is in the interest of the Bulgarian principality not only to support this idea but to continue to work for its realization.''" - ''Pravo'' was a Sofia newspaper close to the BMORK - the article appeared on June 7, 1902 (O.S.), Ibid., pp. 424 – 425.</ref><ref>...This idea, (''of autonomous Macedonia'') nevertheless, remained a Bulgarian idea until it disappeared even among the Bulgarians. Neither the Greeks, nor the Turks, nor any other nationality in Macedonia accepted that slogan... The idea of autonomous Macedonia developed most significantly after the creation of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, which was Bulgarian in respect of its members... [[Dimo Hadjidimov]], "Back to the Autonomy", Sofia, 1919.[http://www.promacedonia.org/mpr/documents/hadjidimov.html]</ref> Still, there are written statements of Sandanski and his followers, where they explicitly claimed "'''we are not Bulgarians, we are Macedonians!'''"<ref>'''"Who told you that I'm a Bulgarian?! We, the [[IMRO]] are not Bulgarians! We are Macedonians! I'm astonished that you, as a Greek communist say something like that. I must explain it to you - You insult us when you call us Bulgarians!"''' - [[Todor Panitsa]] interviewed by Elefterios Stavridis:'Τα Παρασκηνια του ΚΚΕ'', Athens, 1953, [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10155884_887487211277170_3348486361607129531_n.jpg?oh=176e3dac404ee1c61bafd888d3f213c3&oe=54BBB304&__gda__=1421342424_e550a2f37f2ab419c2db23002a482938 pg. 209].</ref><ref>"'''Sandanski was an Apostle of the [[Macedonian nation]]! ...He claimed that the Macedonians are neither Bulgarians, Serbs, Vlachs nor Greeks, but a distinct ethnicity, and they all are descendants of the people of [[Alexander the Great]] and [[Philip II of Macedon]]ia, who also weren't Greeks, but their enemies, and they defeated and subjugated them."''' – ibid., [https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/575858_481150755244153_1771646882_n.jpg?oh=aff67977ee0f87247b1a97c3e0628bbc&oe=54CD7E12&__gda__=1422501009_686afcc50771278d41b05a18e2aa2722 pg. 213].</ref><ref>[[Todor Aleksandrov]] called the “''Sandanists''” traitors to the Bulgarian nation, because “'''they’ve always claimed, and they still claim that [[Macedonia (country)|Macedonia]] should become an independent state, that it’s a separate land and the [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]] are a separate nation with its own multi-centennial history”'''. (Tsocho Bilyarski: [http://www.sitebulgarizaedno.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=242:2011-02-23-17-45-4 Truth about the autonomy of Macedonia], see the letter [http://www.sitebulgarizaedno.com/images/stories/statii/02232011/5-3.jpg here])</ref><ref>When miss [[Ellen Stone]] asks Sandanski - "What are you?" he answers - "Among us are Bulgarians, Albanians, Serbs, '''Macedonians''', and a Jew." (Teresa Carpenter: [http://books.google.mk/books?ei=9FbCUIOgNcSK4ATixYAo&id=oj5tAAAAMAAJ&dq=miss+stone+tsilka+chief+giant+macedonians&q=macedonians+serbs+bulgarians#search_anchor The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis], Simon & Schuster, 2003, pg. 40) </ref><ref>Italian publicist Rodolfo Foa in the newspaper "L`Italia all`Estro", says that Sandanski disseminated the idea that: “Macedonia will be freed by the Macedonians themselves, without any help of neighbouring states – In Macedonia there shouldn’t be [[Bulgarians]], [[Greeks]], [[Serbs]] nor [[Romanians]], but only Macedonians.“ („Јане Сандански и македонското национално дело“, [[Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts|MANU]], Skopje, 2007, pg. 93.)</ref> |
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After the wars, most of Macedonia was ceded to Greece and Serbia, while [[Pirin Macedonia]] was ceded to Bulgaria and Sandanski resettled in the [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Kingdom]]. On July 1914, the Bulgarian assembly pardoned him for all offences.<ref name="mm" /> In the same year, Macedonian nationalist [[Dimitrija Čupovski]] under the [[pseudonym]] Strezo wrote that Sandanski was a Bulgarian agent, bodyguard of the Bulgarian prince and an ordinary criminal.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dimitar|first=Chupovski|date=1914|title=Dimitar Chupovski from the village of Papradishte, Veles region, Vardar Macedonia - "The case of J. Sandanski - not a Macedonian case", published in the newspaper "Makedonskij Golos", year II, issue. 11, Petrograd, Russia, November 20, 1914|url=http://www.strumski.com/books/Dimityr_Chupovski_za_Jane_Sandanski.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513091608/https://www.strumski.com/biblioteka/?id=2637|archive-date=2021-05-13|website=Strumski Online Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Blaže Ristovski |title=Историja на македонската нациjа |location=Скопjе |publisher=MANU |date=1999 |page=458}}</ref> He and his IMARO-wing officially supported at that time the [[Russophilia|Russophiles]] from the [[Democratic Party (Bulgaria)|Democratic Party]]. However, the idea to join the anti-Serbian [[Central Powers]], who fought against Russia, prevailed in Bulgaria, as well as among the rightists in the IMARO. Sandanski attempted to change this course and conspired to assassinate Bulgarian [[Tsar Ferdinand I]]. He proposed that Bulgaria be proclaimed as a republic and the foreign policy of the country to be changed. Sandanski seeked support among the opposition parties, which were on the side of the [[Allies of World War I|Entente]], but they refused to participate in the conspiracy, and it failed. As a result, he was assassinated near the [[Rozhen Monastery]] on 22 April 1915 while travelling from [[Melnik, Bulgaria|Melnik]] to [[Nevrokop]], by local right-wing IMARO faction activists.<ref>{{cite book |trans-title=The fifty biggest assaults in Bulgarian history |author=Krum Blagov |title=50-те най-големи атентата в българската история |publisher=Издателство Репортер |date=21 September 2000 |isbn=954-8102-44-7 |page=178}}</ref> He was buried at the monastery.<ref name="mm" /> His famous words "To live means to struggle, the slave for freedom and the free man for perfection" are written on his grave.<ref name="dw">{{cite book |editor1=John B. Allcock |editor2=Antonia Young |title=Black Lambs & Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the Balkans |publisher=Berghahn Books |date=2000 |isbn=1571817441 |pages=180-181}}</ref> |
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Stefan Kemilev, а lawyer from Bulgaria and opponent of Yane Sandanski, witnessed: |
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[[File:Sandanski2.jpg|right|270px|thumb|Sandanski (II) with IMARO members supporting Bulgarian troops during [[Balkan Wars]].]] |
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{{Quote|— '''"Yanе had a theory that the Macedonian question should not be regarded as a part of the Bulgarian national ideals… He clearly stated that those who propagate "Bulgarian national unification" in Macedonia are death-enemies of [[IMRO]], just like the Greek and the Serbian national-chauvinistic agitators. Furthermore, he disseminated the belief that the masses are an independent, distinctive people, and they have to believe in it. They mustn't rely on any of the alien forces."'''<ref>Хриcтo Силянов: [http://www.promacedonia.org/obm2/43.html ''Освободителнитѣ борби на Македония'', том II] (изд. на Илинденската Орг., София, 1943; II фототипно изд. "Наука и Изкуство", София, 1983), [https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/1836946_888003244558900_7552058488467313376_o.jpg с. 498].</ref>}} |
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[[File:Yane Sandanski Dead.jpg|right|thumb|252x252px|The body of Yane Sandanski, c. 1915]] |
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== Views == |
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Atanas Djolev, Macedonian [[IMRO]] nationalist from the [[Strumica]] area and one of the many "Sandanist" sympathizers, in his "Memoirs" says: |
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As the leader of the left-wing (federalist) faction, he supported the autonomy of Macedonia. He supported the 1908 [[Young Turk Revolution]], hoping that it would bring equality to all peoples in the Ottoman Empire and autonomy for Macedonia.<ref name="bio" /> Sandanski criticised the politics of both Serbia and Bulgaria and accused them of being more interested in the enlargement of their states than in the freedom of the people in Macedonia.<ref name="va" /> During the lack of the resistance against Ottoman authorities, the internationalist ideas of Bulgarian [[socialist]] activists influenced Sandanski's agenda: what was seen as [[national interests]] had to be subdued to the pan-Ottoman ones in order to achieve a "supra-national union" of all the nationalities within a reformed Empire.<ref name="dm" /> After the Young Turk Revolution, he publicly disowned Bulgarian nationalism. As chairman of the newly established People's Federative Party, he demanded democratisation of the political system, administrative autonomy for the provinces, abolition of national, religious, and social privileges, separation of religious from state affairs, secular education in state schools, and universal conscription. On that basis, the CUP had reached an understanding with his wing.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory |date=2017 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=9783319446424 |editor1=Katrin Boeckh |editor2=Sabine Rutar |pages=34-35}}</ref> He saw the solution of the [[Macedonian Question]] through the creation of a [[Balkan Federation]], which would include Macedonia and Adrianople.<ref name="db" /> Afterwards, he became disappointed with the [[Turkish nationalism|Turkish nationalist]] policy of the new government.<ref name="rd" /> Despite rejecting religion, he was deeply superstitious and remained as such throughout his life.<ref name="mm" /> He had never rejected the [[Bulgarian Exarchate]] as an institution, or denied that it had a role to play in the life of the [[Macedonian Bulgarians]].<ref>{{cite book |title=For Freedom and Perfection: The Life of Yané Sandansky |author=Mercia MacDermott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkZtAAAAMAAJ&q=Supremists+Ferdinand%E2%80%99s+generals |isbn=978-1-85172-014-9 |publisher=Journeyman Press |date=1988 |pages=424-425 |quote=When, at the People Federative Party Congress, some more extreme left-winger began to attack the Exarchate during a debate on education, Yané, who was chairing the session, rose to his feet and said: ‘Leave the Exarchate alone! The situation in Turkey is still fluid.’ There was a great commotion, and Yané adjourned the session. During the interval, he went over to the delegate who had attacked the Exarchate and said: ‘You know nothing! If it should so happen that the Bulgarians in Macedonia don’t get what they want, I shall defend the Exarchate with a weapon in my hand.}}</ref> Per a member of his cheta Atanas Yanev, Sandanski was saddened by internecine struggles.<ref>{{cite book |quote=It was somewhere around 1905-1906. At that time, the Supremists—Ferdinand’s generals, as we called them—appeared in our part of the country as well. And they managed to get a foothold in the village of Lyubovka. "We are not going to stand for this," Yané decided, and collected a group of us. "Go and wake up Lyubovka! See to it that there’s no bloodshed!" (...) We went back. We told Yané what had happened, and he was silent as though struck dumb. He was silent, and sighed; only at one time he said: "We’re all Bulgarians, Tatso, and yet we kill each other to no useful purpose whatsoever. This futile bloodshed weighs heavy upon me. . . What do you think?" ‘What could I say to him? I was a simple chetnik. I’m telling you, those were troubled times, and there was plenty of unnecessary bloodshed. . . As for Yané, bright soul, he grieved over everything. |title=For Freedom and Perfection: The Life of Yané Sandansky |author=Mercia MacDermott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkZtAAAAMAAJ&q=Supremists+Ferdinand%E2%80%99s+generals |isbn=978-1-85172-014-9 |publisher=Journeyman Press |date=1988 |pages=186-187}}</ref> |
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{{Quote|— '''"Within the whole of Macedonia, the [[IMRO]] struggled equally against the three Balkan imperialist states, for completely autonomous and independent Macedonia... The liquidation of the "Sandanists" meant a kind of an end of this Macedonian nationalistic struggle, and the Organization was usurped by the bulgarophile servants… Our [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonian]] revolutionists, amongst whom I was something like an ordinary soldier of [[Macedonia (country)|Macedonia]], struggled for Macedonia’s [[Macedonian nationalism|national]] liberation, above all. We could not wait our Macedonian brothers in [[Aegean Macedonia]] to become "Greeks", those in the Serbian-occupied part to become "Serbians" and the [[Pirin Macedonia]]ns to become "Bulgarians". The Macedonians then, nationally were enslaved by the three Balkan countries. It was important to us to be free to call ourselves Macedonians, and to speak and write on our native [[Macedonian language]]. Here, I want to point out that the history of the Macedonian people from 50 years ago must be seen as continuum of the period before 1941. It must be understood by the future generations of Macedonians that their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers struggled for the same ideal. There were no differences between the 1903 and 1941, they had the same dreams."'''<ref>[http://macedonian.atspace.com/knigi/adz_sp.htm Атанас Џолев – „Спомени”], „Премрежињата на македонското револуционерно движење - Спомени“, Скопје, 2006 г, стр. [http://bp3.blogger.com/_NzpNBfJxkY8/RpTAqs5zioI/AAAAAAAAAOk/BDvD50NIF9c/s1600-h/scan0006.jpg 223], [http://bp2.blogger.com/_NzpNBfJxkY8/RpS-Zc5ziiI/AAAAAAAAAN0/HXs2VJzdcpA/s1600-h/scan0012.jpg 235-236]</ref>.}} |
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On the other hand, the bigger fraction (the Centralists), as well as that of the other revolutionary organization - ''[[Macedonian Supreme Committee]]'' - ''Varhovists'', (most of which followers joined the "''Centralists''", after its dissolution in 1903) aimed also at autonomy. But they did not expected inclusion in a [[Balkan Socialist Federation]] and had not so extreme policy by their relation to Sofia. These political differences led to sharp conflict between them. |
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Arguably Sandanski's greatest sin in the context of the whole movement were the assassinations of the [[vojvod]] [[Michail Daev]] and later of [[Ivan Garvanov]] and [[Boris Sarafov]], both members of the IMARO's Central Committee. He came to regret these and other murders later.<ref>"We are all Bulgarians, Taso (i.e. Atanas), but we are killing ourselves for nothing. It is hard for me..." (The words are quoted in the memoirs of his adherent Atanas Yanev and published in "Eho" newspaper, 26.05.1972)</ref> Because of that he was even sentenced to death by the ''Centralists''. The Bulgarian authorities investigated the assassinations and suspected Sandanski was the main force behind them. On the other hand he was [[Amnesty|amnestied]] by the [[National Assembly (Bulgaria)|Bulgarian Parliament]] after the support he gave to the [[Bulgarian Army]] during the [[Balkan wars]]. |
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[[File:Jane Sandanski Manifest 1908.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The manifesto proclaimed by Yane Sandanski at the beginning of the [[Young Turk Revolution]]]] |
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There was, a long history of friction between the [[Bulgarian Exarchate]] and the Organization, since those more closely connected with the Exarchate were moderates rather than revolutionaries. Thus the two bodies had never been able to see eye to eye on a number of important issues touching the population in Thrace and Macedonia. In his regular reports to the Exarch, the Bulgarian bishop in Melnik usually referred to Yane as ''the wild beast'' and deliberately spelt his name without capital letters. Despite [[extreme left]]ist he also had ever rejected the Bulgarian Exarchate as an institution, or denied that it had a role to play in the life of the [[Macedonian Bulgarians]].<ref>When, at the People Federative Party Congress, some more extreme left-winger began to attack the Exarchate during a debate on education, Yané, who was chairing the session, rose to his feet and said: ‘Leave the Exarchate alone! The situation in Turkey is still fluid.’ There was a great commotion, and Yané adjourned the session. During the interval, he went over to the delegate who had attacked the Exarchate and said: ‘You know nothing! If it should so happen that the Bulgarians in Macedonia don’t get what they want, I shall defend the Exarchate with a weapon in my hand.(Dnevnik, 11.VIII.1909. The debate in question took place on 7.VIII.1909.)</ref> Sandanski also [[collaborated]] later with the [[Young Turks]], opposing other factions of IMARO, which fought against the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] authorities in this period. |
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[[File:August 30 1909 The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette-Sandanski.jpg|right|180px|thumb|The assassination attempt of [[Tane Nikolov]] against Sandanski in [[Thessaloniki]], as seen by the American daily ''[[The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)]]'' on August 30, 1909.]] |
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During the first days of [[Young Turk Revolution]], the collaboration of the Macedonian leftists with the Ottoman activists was stated in a special ''Manifesto to all the nationalities of the Empire''.<ref>Sandanski called his ''compatriots'' to discard the ''propaganda'' of official Bulgaria in order to live together in a peaceful way with the [[Turkish people]].(Adanır, Ibid., 258.)</ref> The loyalty to the Empire declared by Sandanski deliberately blurred the distinction between Macedonian and Ottoman political agenda. This ideological transition was quite smooth as long as the rhetoric of Macedonian autonomist supra-nationalism was already quite close to the Ottomanist idea of the so-called ''unity of the elements''.<ref>Andonov-Poljanski et al., Ibid., 543-546</ref> During the honeymoon of Serres revolutionaries and Ottoman authorities, it was the internationalist ideas of Bulgarian [[socialist]] activists that left their stamp on Sandanski's agenda: what was seen as [[national interests]] had to be subdued to the pan-Ottoman ones in order to achieve a ''supra-national union'' of all the nationalities within a reformed Empire. After Bulgaria lost the [[Balkan Wars]] and as result most of Macedonia was ceded to Greece and Serbia, Sandanski attempted to organize the assassination of Bulgarian [[Tsar Ferdinand I]], but it failed. |
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The ''Centralists'' organised several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Sandanski. They came closest to achieving their goal in [[Thessaloniki]], where [[Tane Nikolov]] managed to kill two other ''Federalists'' and heavily wounded Sandanski. Eventually, Sandanski was killed near the [[Rozhen Monastery]] on April 22, 1915, while travelling from [[Melnik, Bulgaria|Melnik]] to [[Nevrokop]], by local IMARO activists.<ref>[http://www.krumblagov.com/fifty/27.php The fifty biggest assaults in Bulgarian history, Blagov, Krum] 50-те най-големи атентата в българската история. Крум Благов. Издателство Репортер. 21.09.2000. ISBN 954-8102-44-7</ref> |
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== Legacy == |
== Legacy == |
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[[File:Yane Sandanski dead place.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Place of Sandanski's death, near the village of [[Pirin (Bulgarian village)|Pirin]].]] |
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During World War II, the [[Macedonian Partisans]] named units after him and other figures, with whom the [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] and its regional leaders identified themselves with.<ref>{{cite book |author=Andrew Rossos |title=Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History |date=2013 |publisher=Hoover Institution Press |isbn=9780817948832 |pages=192-193}}</ref> Communist Partisan detachment, part of the [[Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II]], was named after him too.<ref>История на антифашистката борба в България, т. II 1943/1944 г., С., 1976, стр. 175.</ref> In [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]], the regime appreciated Sandanski because of his socialist ideas and honoured him by renaming the town Sveti Vrach to [[Sandanski]], in 1949. Due to indications of a socialist inclination, he was among the left-wing IMRO figures glorified by Yugoslav Macedonian historians.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Stephen E. Palmer |author2=Robert R. King |title=Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian Question |date=1971 |publisher=Archon Books |isbn=9780208008213 |page=162}}</ref> In November 1968, the historical institute of the [[Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]] confronted the [[Yugoslav Macedonia]]n attempt to claim him as an ethnic Macedonian with a monograph.<ref>{{cite book |author=Spyridon Sfetas |date=2017 |chapter=The Fusion of Regional and Cold War Problems: The Macedonian Triangle Between Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1963–80 |title=The Balkans in the Cold War, |editor=Svetozar Rajak |publisher=Springer |isbn=1137439033 |page=313}}</ref> A statue of him was placed in the entrance of [[Melnik, Bulgaria|Melnik]] in 1972, where he has been seen as a national hero. In 1981, Bulgarian communist politician [[Lyudmila Zhivkova]] listed him and Delchev as among the "national heroes who fought for the freedom of the Bulgarian nation."<ref name="id" /> English historian [[Mercia MacDermott]] published a biographical book called ''For Freedom and Perfection: The Life of Yane Sandansky'' in 1988. Per Diane Waller, he is a controversial figure and MacDermott admitted that she had a "real battle" over him.<ref name="dw" /> MacDermott has described him as a Bulgarian revolutionary and whose wing, under the influence of socialist ideas, tried to solve the [[Macedonian Question]] by uniting all the Balkan peoples.<ref>{{cite book |title=For Freedom and Perfection: The life of Yané Sandansky |author=Mercia MacDermott |page=Abstract |date=1988 |url=https://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/mm/mm_abstract.htm}}</ref> After the [[fall of communism]], nationalist Bulgarian historians have depicted him as a traitor to the Bulgarians, a collaborator of the Turks (seen as Bulgarian enemies) and a robber who was only motivated by money.<ref name="mh" /> [[VMRO – Bulgarian National Movement|VMRO-Union of Macedonian Associations]]' president {{Interlanguage link|Stoyan Boyadziev|bg|Стоян Бояджиев}} described Sandanski as an extremely controversial Bulgarian revolutionary, whose separatist асtivitу however produced as a whole Macedonian nationalism.<ref>{{cite book |author=Stoyan Boyadziev |title=Истинският лик на Яне Сандански |publisher=Makedoniya Press |date=1994 |page=21 |language=bg}}</ref> Bulgarian president [[Georgi Parvanov]] placed a wreath on his monument in Melnik together with his Macedonian counterpart [[Branko Crvenkovski]] in March 2008.<ref name="db" /> Parvanov, who is a professional historian, claimеd that earlier he was critical to Sandanski's activities, but from the distance of time, he thinks that Sandanski cannot be reproached for having a self-consciousness different from the Bulgarian one.<ref>Първанов: Бях критичен към делата на Яне Сандански, но той е българин. [https://www.dnes.bg/a/58-obshtestvo/42135-parvanov-byah-kritichen-kam-delata-na-yane-sandanski-no-toy-e-balgarin 05.10.2007 г., Днес.бг.]</ref> |
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The identity of Sandanski has been disputed between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.<ref name="id">{{cite book |editor1=John Lampe |editor2=Mark Mazower |title=Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe |date=2004 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=9789639241824 |pages=110-115}}</ref> According to the Turkish professor of history Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu, who is interested in nation-building in the late Ottoman Empire,<ref>{{cite web |website=Yıldız University, Department of Political Science and International Relations |url=http://www.sbu.yildiz.edu.tr/en/kadro.php?id=87 |author=Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122174417/http://www.sbu.yildiz.edu.tr/en/kadro.php?id=87 |title=Profile |archive-date=22 January 2019}}</ref> it is very difficult to find a definitive answer to some questions regarding Sandanski's biography. Hacısalihoğlu suggested answering the question "Was Sandanski a betrayer of national Bulgarian interests in Macedonia?" positively but also pointed out that the region under his influence was not subject much to the oppressive measures of the CUP government due to his good relations with the CUP. He supported an autonomous Macedonia because it would permit him to expand his role as a political leader. However, this does not mean, he regarded the [[Macedonian Bulgarians|Bulgarian Macedonian]] population as a separate [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonian nation]].<ref name="mh" /> |
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In the Republic of Macedonia, Sandanski is considered a national hero and one of the most prominent revolutionary figures of the 20th century. Most of the Macedonian mainstream specialists on the history of local revolutionary movement, like Academician Katardzhiev, argue that the political separatism of Sandanski represented a form of early [[Macedonian nationalism]],<ref>Ivan Katardžiev, Makedonija sto godini po Ilindenskoto vostanie, Skopje: Kultura, 2003, 54-69</ref> asserting later that at that time it was only a political phenomenon, without an [[ethnic]] character. Today, Sandanski is one of the names mentioned in the National anthem of the Republic of Macedonia. |
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In North Macedonia, Sandanski is considered a national hero. Macedonian historian [[Ivan Katardžiev]] argued that the political separatism of Sandanski represented a form of early [[Macedonian nationalism]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Ivan Katardžiev |title=Makedonija sto godini po Ilindenskoto vostanie |location=Skopje |publisher=Kultura |date=2003 |pages=54-69}}</ref> asserting that at that time it was only a political phenomenon, without ethnic character. His name is mentioned in the national anthem of North Macedonia, ''[[Denes nad Makedonija]]'' (Today over Macedonia).<ref>{{cite book |title=Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia |isbn=9780253008473 |publisher=Indiana University Press |date=2013 |author=Keith Brown |page=174}}</ref> A monument commemorating him was placed in Skopje as part of the [[Skopje 2014]] project.<ref>{{cite book |title=Macedonia’s Long Transition From Independence to the Prespa Agreement and Beyond |publisher=Springer International Publishing |editor1=Ivan Dodovski |editor2=Robert Hudson |isbn=9783031207730 |date=2023 |page=198}}</ref> The [[Macedonian historiography]] has emphasised the particularity of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation's left-wing and Macedonian historians refer to his actions in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of Macedonian nationalism or at least ''proto-nationalism'' within a part of the local revolutionary movement at his time.<ref name="igd" /> They also depict him as a fighter against the "Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia" and the "Turkish yoke".<ref name="mh" /> Sandanski's grave has been a place for commemoration and gatherings by Macedonian nationalists from Bulgaria and North Macedonia. In response, Bulgarian nationalists set up a second gravestone next to the original, inscribing an alleged statement by Sandanski in a Bulgarian patriotic tone.<ref>{{cite book |editor1=Maria Couroucli |editor2=Tchavdar Marinov |title=Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture |date=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781134800759 |pages=84, 92}}</ref> [[Sandanski Point]] on the E coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, [[Livingston Island]], Antarctica, was named after him by the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition. |
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In Bulgaria, the communist regime appreciated Sandanski because of his socialist ideas and honoured him by renaming the town Sveti Vrach to [[Sandanski]], in 1949. In the years after the [[Fall of Communism]], some right-wing Bulgarian historians have been keen to discredit his reputation.<ref>[http://books.google.bg/books?id=2yLfmoaeWukC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=yane+sandanski+bulgarian+revolutionary&source=bl&ots=aJGvt9CAPy&sig=B6WxGYgdFqepj3m7eDr_yk0W1KU&hl=bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Bulgaria, Jonathan Bousfield, Rough Guides, Dan Richardson, Richard Watkins, Edition: 4, Rough Guides, 2002, ISBN 1-85828-882-7, p. 160.]</ref> [[Sandanski Point]] on the E coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, [[Livingston Island]], Antarctica bears his name as well. |
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Among Yané's personal books is a copy of Plehanov's "Anarchism and Socialism, translated into Bulgarian by Georgi Bakalov, and published in Varna in 1898. He regarded Slav Macedonian population and its language as Bulgarian: in his "Memoirs", redacted and published in Bulgaria in [[1927]] (12 years after his death),<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/bmark/lm_voevodi/lm_voevodi_korica.jpg the front page] of the first edition of the study that contains Sandanski's [http://www.promacedonia.org/bmark/lm_voevodi/index.html "Memoirs"], redacted and published in Bulgaria in [[1927]], 12 years after his death.</ref> Sandanski called his language "Bulgarian" (page 19), 2007), and one village inhabited by [[Turkish people|Turks]] and Macedonian Slavs "Turkish-Bulgarian village" (first page).<ref>He established a political party, called "People's Federative Party (Bulgarian section)" and noted in its statute (written in literary [[Bulgarian language]]) that member of this party could be "every Bulgarian, Ottoman citizen twenty years of age or older" (newspaper "Narodna volya", number 1, January 17, 1909). In addition, as [https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/988838_866747330017825_1608661020_n.jpg?oh=0936e375f5f04bcea2b3fcbf3d80141e&oe=54AEC630 pursuant to Article 1], it's said that "a citizen of another nationality is accepted as a member, until a party section for that nationаlity is established."</ref><ref>The ''[[Washington Post]]'' also described him as Bulgarian in his issue on August 30, 1908). (See [http://www.kroraina.com/bugarash/Sunday_Aug30_1908_The_Washington_post.JPG here:])</ref><ref>Among non-Bulgarian records about the Bulgarianness of Sandanski is an article in Serbian newspaper ''Politika'', July 1908, number 1619, written by famous writer [[Branislav Nušić]], in which Sandanski is interviewed and listed among Bulgarian rebels (see [http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7005/isfn4.jpg here], fifth column to the right)</ref><ref>The American journalist Albert Sonixen (who had many publications on the Macedonian struggle) wrote: "Now when I am writing these lines, I am reading in the newspapers that Sandanski at the head of one band consisting of hundred Bulgarians, followed by mixed battalion of Greeks, Jews and Turks are in the gates of Constantinopole". (Сониксен, Алберт. Изповедта на един македонски четник, София 1983, с. 180)</ref><ref>"''Auch der von ihm ausführlich behandelte Vojvode Jane Sandanski, ein exponierter Vertreter des linken Flügels der IMRO, bezeichnete sich selbst als '''Bulgaren'''. Regionale Autonomie, das zeigt die Arbeit, musste dabei nicht unbedingt Makedonien als Gesamtheit und einheitliches Gebilde umfassen, sondern konnte durch aus auch in diesem Fall die Stärkung von Sandanskis Machtposition in dem von ihm beherrschten Teilgebiet, dem Pirin-Gebirge, bedeuten''." - ''Die Jungtürken und die Mazedonische Frage'' (1890–1918), Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu, Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, Bd. 116, München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 2003, 445 S., ISBN 3-486-56745-4; Rezensiert von: Heinz Willemsen (Bochum/Bielefeld)</ref> but is regarded as an ethnic [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonian]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]]. The Bulgarianness of Sandanski is recognized by several Macedonian historians like [[Academician]] Ivan Katardzhiev, director of the Historical Sciences section in the [[Academic department|Department]] of [[Social Sciences]] in the [[Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts]] and the director of the Macedonian State archive [[Ph.D.]] Zoran Todorovski.<ref>Katardzhiev defines all Macedonian revolutionaries from the period before the 1930s as "Bulgarians" and asserts that separatism of some Macedonian revolutionaties toward official Bulgarian policy was only political phenomenon without ethnic character (an interview for [http://www.forum.com.mk/Arhiva/Forum37/megaintervju/megaintervju.htm "Forum" magazine], in Macedonian, retrieved on September 6, 2007). Todorovski asserts that "All of them declared themselves as Bulgarians..." and "he considered himself as Macedonian too" about Sandanski (an interview for [http://www.tribune.eu.com/articles/79.html www.tribune.eu.com], June 27, 2005, in Macedonian, retrieved on June 26, 2007).</ref> On the other hand, some Bulgarian historians have confirmed that Sandanski's activities produced Macedonian nationalism.<ref>Стоян Г. Бояджиев: [http://macedonia-history.blogspot.com/2010/01/istinskia-lik-na-yane-sandanski.html Истинският лик на Яне Сандански], София, 1994, с. 21.</ref><ref>“Sandanski was trouble for Bulgaria, he and his followers inflamed the population against Bulgaria and the [[Bulgarian Exarchate|Exarchate]].” (Iliya Paskov, “Atanas Shopov’s Diary,” Sofia, 1995, pg. 113.)</ref> |
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[[File:Sandanski2.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Sandanski (left) with IMARO members supporting Bulgarian troops during [[Balkan Wars]].]] |
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* Mercia MacDermott. ''For Freedom and Perfection. The Life of Yane Sandansky'', 1988, Published by Journeyman, London, ISBN 1-85172-014-6, ISBN 978-1-85172-014-9, OCLC 16465550 [http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/mm/index.htm] |
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* [http://www.promacedonia.org/bmark/lm_voevodi/1_0.htm Memoirs of Yane Sandanski] (original edition in Bulgarian) |
* [http://www.promacedonia.org/bmark/lm_voevodi/1_0.htm Memoirs of Yane Sandanski] (original edition in Bulgarian) |
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* Pavel Deliradev: [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/47608518?access_key=key-qs0wta5vf8jbe9zptkd Yane Sandanski] (Biography, 1946) |
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* Hristo Konstantinov: [https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59185920?access_key=key-8z1c4aeyfwmqil91anw (Old Man Yane Sandanski Figure and Deed)] (Biography, 1939) |
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Voivode Yane Sandanski | |
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 Yane Sandanski c. 1900 | |
| Native name | Яне Сандански |
| Birth name | Yane Ivanov Sandanski |
| Born | 18 May 1872 Vlahi, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 22 April 1915 (aged 42) Blatata, near Pirin, Tsardom of Bulgaria |
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| Service |  Bulgarian Army |
| Battles / wars | Ilinden Uprising Macedonian Struggle Balkan Wars |
| Signature | .svg) |
Yane Ivanov Sandanski (Bulgarian: Яне Иванов Сандански, Macedonian: Јане Иванов Сандански, romanized: Jane Ivanov Sandanski;[1] Originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography as Яне Ивановъ Сандански (Yane Ivanov Sandanski);[2] 18 May 1872 – 22 April 1915) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the left-wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).[3]
In his youth Sandanski was involved in the anti-Ottoman struggle, joining initially the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), but later switched to IMARO. As an activist of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), he became the head of the local prison in Dupnitsa. After the Ilinden uprising, Sandanski became the leader of the Serres revolutionary district. He supported the idea of a Balkan Federation, and Macedonia as an autonomous state within its framework, as an ultimate solution of the national problems in the area. During the Second Constitutional Era he became an Ottoman politician, collaborating with the Young Turks and founding the Bulgarian People's Federative Party.[4] Sandanski took up arms on the side of Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars (1912–13). Afterwards, he became involved in Bulgarian public life again but was assassinated by the rivalling IMARO right-wing faction activists.
He is recognised as a national hero in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia,[5] but his identity is also disputed between both countries. While People's Republic of Bulgaria honoured him,[6] after the fall of communism he has been described by Bulgarian nationalist historians as a betrayer of the Bulgarian national interests and collaborator with the Turks. On the contrary, in North Macedonia, the positive connotation of him, created in the times of Communist Yugoslavia is still alive, and he has been portrayed there as a fighter against the "Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia" and the "Turkish yoke."
Life
[edit]Early life and activity
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Sandanski was born on 18 May 1872 in the village of Vlahi near Kresna, then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Bulgaria.[7] He was the third and last child of Ivan and Milka, after Todor and Sofia. His father Ivan participated in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising as a standard-bearer in a rebel detachment. In 1879, after the suppression of the uprising, his family moved to Dupnitsa, in the recently established Principality of Bulgaria, where Sandanski received his elementary education. He had to drop out of school after completing two years of post-elementary education due to poverty and became the apprentice of a shoemaker. From 1892 to 1894 he was subject to compulsory military service in the Bulgarian army, as part of the Thirteenth Regiment which was stationed in Kyustendil, and he was demobilized with the rank of corporal.[8] He joined initially the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) in 1895 during the Committee's cheta action into the Pomaks-inhabited regions of the Western Rhodopes.[9] In 1897 in Dupnitsa, a new detachment of the Supreme Committee was formed, under the leadership of Krastyo Zahariev, where Sandanski joined too. After the detachment entered Pirin Mountains, it encountered Ottoman troops. In one of the battles Sandanski was wounded and his detachment returned him to Bulgaria for treatment.[8] Sandanski operated as an activist of Radoslavov's wing of the Liberal Party and shortly after it came to power in February 1899, he was appointed head of the Dupnitsa prison.[10] He switched to the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) in 1901. He built the organisation's network of committees in the districts of Serres and Gorna Dzhumaya.[9] Due to the organisation's bad financial situation, he had to ponder different ways to earn money.[8] He settled on kidnapping an American Protestant missionary for ransom. On 3 September 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone along with her companions set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Macedonia and were ambushed by his detachment led by him and his friend Hristo Chernopeev. She was kidnapped along with her Bulgarian companion Katerina Tsilka.[8] It resulted in the Miss Stone Affair - America's first modern hostage crisis. SMAC attempted to acquire both women but the attempt was foiled by Sandanski.[11] The affair ended after the organisation received the ransom money (which was used to purchase weapons) and the women were released.[7][12]
Activity in IMARO
[edit]In 1902, Sandanski persuaded the Vlachs in the sanjak of Serres from Melnik, mostly shepherds, to join his Serres committee, in exchange for his protection against soldiers and detachments.[12] He came to be known as the "Tsar of Pirin."[13] Sandanski was opposed to the Ilinden uprising, considering it premature, although he did participate in the military actions in the region of Serres.[11] The failure of the Ilinden uprising resulted in the split of the IMRO into a left-wing (federalist) faction in the Serres and Strumica districts and a right-wing (centralist) faction in the Bitola and Skopje districts. The left-wing faction advocated the creation of a Balkan Federation (including Macedonia) with equality for all subjects and nationalities, as well as favouring the decentralisation of IMRO. The right-wing faction of IMRO aimed for the unification of Macedonia with Bulgaria and advocated for centralisation to counter the incursions of Serb and Greek bands into Macedonia.[9][14] Per Bulgarian historian and former IMARO member Hristo Silyanov, Sandanski's faction sentenced Boris Sarafov to death in 1904.[8] Sandanski created observation posts in his district order to watch for Turkish detachments, and the peasants were forced to warn or be killed. He also organised military training for all able men. Several people in his district were executed as collaborators. French consul Guillois described Sandanski as "a ferocious man, bloodthirsty...who enjoys an absolute authority over all Bulgarian villages to the northeast of Salonika."[12] Sandanski justified the executions in an open letter to him and argued that the organisation had the right to ignore the law of the land and to punish as it saw fit.[8]
In 1905, the Rila Congress of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation adopted the main ideas of the left-wing faction led by Sandanski. The organisation changed its name to IMARO (Internal Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organisation) and allowed membership for people from European Turkey independently of sex, religion, nationality and conviction.[15] At the end of the congress, Sandanski confronted Sarafov, accusing him of having accepted money from the Serbs, having facilitated the transit of Serbian detachments into Macedonia and organising his own armed groups in order to weaken the organisation and take the leadership. In turn, Sarafov accused him of being a traitor due to his refusal to participate in the battles of the Ilinden uprising. However, the congress ended with the delegates deciding not to examine the cases of the leaders who could have violated the rules in order to preserve the organisation's unity. In 1906, his faction controlled Serres and Strumica and for geographical reasons, it rarely fought against Serbs or Greeks but often against Ottoman troops. Mihail Daev, who was a member of his committee, sent a letter to the right-wing faction in September 1907, where he asserted that as long as Sandanski was alive, there was no question of uniting the organisation again. The letter was discovered by Todor Panitsa, an associate of Sandanski and on 10 October, the Serres committee sentenced Boris Sarafov, Ivan Garvanov and Mihail Daev to death.[12] Panitsa assassinated Sarafov and Garvanov in the same year. After their assassination, Bulgarian authorities issued an arrest warrant against Sandanski.[16][17] The Kyustendil congress of the right-wing faction of IMARO in 1908, sentenced him to death, which led to a final disintegration of the organisation.[18]
Collaboration with the Young Turks
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Sandanski and his faction decided to work with the Young Turks in 1907.[20] During the first days of Young Turk Revolution, the collaboration of the Macedonian leftists with the Ottoman activists was stated in a special Manifesto to all the nationalities of the Empire. Sandanski called his compatriots to discard the "propaganda" of official Bulgaria in order to live together in a peaceful way with the Turkish people. The manifesto was authored by Bulgarian socialist Pavel Deliradev but signed by Sandanski.[8] The loyalty to the Empire declared by Sandanski deliberately blurred the distinction between Macedonian and Ottoman political agenda.[15] Among the Ottoman public, Sandanski was known as "King of the Mountains" and "Sandan Pasha". After the revolution, Sandanski and Chernopeev worked towards creating a left-wing political party called People's Federative Party, whose headquarters were in Thessaloniki (Salonica).[18] This federalist project was supposed to include different ethnic sections in itself, but this idea failed and the only section that was created was the faction of Sandanski, called Bulgarian section. In this way its activists only "revived" their Bulgarian national identification, as Sandanski's faction advocated the particular interests of the "Bulgarian nationality" in the Empire.[15][21][22] In 12 April 1909, a counter-revolution took place in Istanbul and conservative Muslim forces were able to gain control. The Young Turks gathered their forces in Salonica and marched upon the capital. A detachment of 1,200 IMARO revolutionaries took part under the command of him, Todor Panitsa, and Hristo Chernopeev.[23] The capital was captured by the Young Turks. Abdul Hamid II was deposed from the throne.[24]
Through his good relations with the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), Sandanski contributed to the appointment of local administrators and the affairs of school education. At the beginning of 1910, however Chernopeev, who was the leader of the leftist group in Strumica, left politics and moved to Sofia. There, he founded a new illegal organization, the Bulgarian National Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Chernopeev also invited him to join him, however Sandanski ignored his invitation. The Bulgarian press launched a propaganda campaign against Sandanski. Sandanski was accused of betraying the Bulgarians in Macedonia, since he did not launch an armed resistance against the Ottoman government. The socialist groups in Bulgaria also criticised Sandanski as a collaborator of the Turks. Despite the pressure and critiques, Sandanski continued with his legitimate political activity. The CUP also wanted to carry out the disarmament of the population in the region dominated by Sandanski. Sandanski rejected the attempt, resulting in tension between him and the CUP. In the process of negotiations, Sandanski ensured the CUP that in his region he was responsible for all illegal actions and that it was unnecessary to disarm the population. The CUP accepted his proposition and halted the disarmament of the Christian population in the area.[14] The rivaling faction's activists of IMARO organised several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Sandanski at that time. They came closest to achieving their goal in Thessaloniki, where Tane Nikolov managed to kill two of his comrades and heavily wounded Sandanski.
Balkan Wars and aftermath
[edit]Sandanski was at the service of the Bulgarian army during the Balkan Wars.[9] During the First Balkan War, the area that Sandanski controlled was occupied by Bulgarian forces. Sandanski helped the occupying armies with his guerillas. The Macedonian Bulgarian detachments burned Muslim villages and massacred Muslims and within his region, they were treated in the same manner. The Muslim men and women of the village Petrovo were burnt to death and only the children were left alive. Per MacDermott, Sandanski was not aware about the incident. He usually tried to prevent such massacres on the Muslims. When he learned about this massacre in Petrovo, he gave the children of killed Muslims to the Bulgarian villagers.[14] Sandanski had a unit under his control which fought together with the Bulgarians, but under independent command. It was located at the right flank of the Seventh Rila Division, numbered 2,000 men and was also the unit that captured Melnik.[16] Later, Sandanski and his comrades were included in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps and were active in the Adrianople region. In June 1913, the Bulgarian government sent a delegation headed by Sandanski to Albania for negotiations with the provisional Albanian government for joint action in the event of a war with Serbia and Greece. He gave an interview for the Italian newspaper "Il Secolo" in Tirana, where he said that he came to an agreement with the Albanians and that revolutionary activity would be renewed.[25]
After the wars, most of Macedonia was ceded to Greece and Serbia, while Pirin Macedonia was ceded to Bulgaria and Sandanski resettled in the Kingdom. On July 1914, the Bulgarian assembly pardoned him for all offences.[8] In the same year, Macedonian nationalist Dimitrija Čupovski under the pseudonym Strezo wrote that Sandanski was a Bulgarian agent, bodyguard of the Bulgarian prince and an ordinary criminal.[26][27] He and his IMARO-wing officially supported at that time the Russophiles from the Democratic Party. However, the idea to join the anti-Serbian Central Powers, who fought against Russia, prevailed in Bulgaria, as well as among the rightists in the IMARO. Sandanski attempted to change this course and conspired to assassinate Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I. He proposed that Bulgaria be proclaimed as a republic and the foreign policy of the country to be changed. Sandanski seeked support among the opposition parties, which were on the side of the Entente, but they refused to participate in the conspiracy, and it failed. As a result, he was assassinated near the Rozhen Monastery on 22 April 1915 while travelling from Melnik to Nevrokop, by local right-wing IMARO faction activists.[28] He was buried at the monastery.[8] His famous words "To live means to struggle, the slave for freedom and the free man for perfection" are written on his grave.[29]
Views
[edit]As the leader of the left-wing (federalist) faction, he supported the autonomy of Macedonia. He supported the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, hoping that it would bring equality to all peoples in the Ottoman Empire and autonomy for Macedonia.[7] Sandanski criticised the politics of both Serbia and Bulgaria and accused them of being more interested in the enlargement of their states than in the freedom of the people in Macedonia.[24] During the lack of the resistance against Ottoman authorities, the internationalist ideas of Bulgarian socialist activists influenced Sandanski's agenda: what was seen as national interests had to be subdued to the pan-Ottoman ones in order to achieve a "supra-national union" of all the nationalities within a reformed Empire.[15] After the Young Turk Revolution, he publicly disowned Bulgarian nationalism. As chairman of the newly established People's Federative Party, he demanded democratisation of the political system, administrative autonomy for the provinces, abolition of national, religious, and social privileges, separation of religious from state affairs, secular education in state schools, and universal conscription. On that basis, the CUP had reached an understanding with his wing.[30] He saw the solution of the Macedonian Question through the creation of a Balkan Federation, which would include Macedonia and Adrianople.[9] Afterwards, he became disappointed with the Turkish nationalist policy of the new government.[11] Despite rejecting religion, he was deeply superstitious and remained as such throughout his life.[8] He had never rejected the Bulgarian Exarchate as an institution, or denied that it had a role to play in the life of the Macedonian Bulgarians.[31] Per a member of his cheta Atanas Yanev, Sandanski was saddened by internecine struggles.[32]
Legacy
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During World War II, the Macedonian Partisans named units after him and other figures, with whom the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its regional leaders identified themselves with.[33] Communist Partisan detachment, part of the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II, was named after him too.[34] In People's Republic of Bulgaria, the regime appreciated Sandanski because of his socialist ideas and honoured him by renaming the town Sveti Vrach to Sandanski, in 1949. Due to indications of a socialist inclination, he was among the left-wing IMRO figures glorified by Yugoslav Macedonian historians.[35] In November 1968, the historical institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences confronted the Yugoslav Macedonian attempt to claim him as an ethnic Macedonian with a monograph.[36] A statue of him was placed in the entrance of Melnik in 1972, where he has been seen as a national hero. In 1981, Bulgarian communist politician Lyudmila Zhivkova listed him and Delchev as among the "national heroes who fought for the freedom of the Bulgarian nation."[37] English historian Mercia MacDermott published a biographical book called For Freedom and Perfection: The Life of Yane Sandansky in 1988. Per Diane Waller, he is a controversial figure and MacDermott admitted that she had a "real battle" over him.[29] MacDermott has described him as a Bulgarian revolutionary and whose wing, under the influence of socialist ideas, tried to solve the Macedonian Question by uniting all the Balkan peoples.[38] After the fall of communism, nationalist Bulgarian historians have depicted him as a traitor to the Bulgarians, a collaborator of the Turks (seen as Bulgarian enemies) and a robber who was only motivated by money.[14] VMRO-Union of Macedonian Associations' president Stoyan Boyadziev described Sandanski as an extremely controversial Bulgarian revolutionary, whose separatist асtivitу however produced as a whole Macedonian nationalism.[39] Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov placed a wreath on his monument in Melnik together with his Macedonian counterpart Branko Crvenkovski in March 2008.[9] Parvanov, who is a professional historian, claimеd that earlier he was critical to Sandanski's activities, but from the distance of time, he thinks that Sandanski cannot be reproached for having a self-consciousness different from the Bulgarian one.[40]
The identity of Sandanski has been disputed between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.[37] According to the Turkish professor of history Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu, who is interested in nation-building in the late Ottoman Empire,[41] it is very difficult to find a definitive answer to some questions regarding Sandanski's biography. Hacısalihoğlu suggested answering the question "Was Sandanski a betrayer of national Bulgarian interests in Macedonia?" positively but also pointed out that the region under his influence was not subject much to the oppressive measures of the CUP government due to his good relations with the CUP. He supported an autonomous Macedonia because it would permit him to expand his role as a political leader. However, this does not mean, he regarded the Bulgarian Macedonian population as a separate Macedonian nation.[14]
In North Macedonia, Sandanski is considered a national hero. Macedonian historian Ivan Katardžiev argued that the political separatism of Sandanski represented a form of early Macedonian nationalism,[42] asserting that at that time it was only a political phenomenon, without ethnic character. His name is mentioned in the national anthem of North Macedonia, Denes nad Makedonija (Today over Macedonia).[43] A monument commemorating him was placed in Skopje as part of the Skopje 2014 project.[44] The Macedonian historiography has emphasised the particularity of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation's left-wing and Macedonian historians refer to his actions in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of Macedonian nationalism or at least proto-nationalism within a part of the local revolutionary movement at his time.[16] They also depict him as a fighter against the "Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia" and the "Turkish yoke".[14] Sandanski's grave has been a place for commemoration and gatherings by Macedonian nationalists from Bulgaria and North Macedonia. In response, Bulgarian nationalists set up a second gravestone next to the original, inscribing an alleged statement by Sandanski in a Bulgarian patriotic tone.[45] Sandanski Point on the E coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica, was named after him by the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition.
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When, at the People Federative Party Congress, some more extreme left-winger began to attack the Exarchate during a debate on education, Yané, who was chairing the session, rose to his feet and said: 'Leave the Exarchate alone! The situation in Turkey is still fluid.' There was a great commotion, and Yané adjourned the session. During the interval, he went over to the delegate who had attacked the Exarchate and said: 'You know nothing! If it should so happen that the Bulgarians in Macedonia don't get what they want, I shall defend the Exarchate with a weapon in my hand.
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