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Alekso Martulkov
Alexandar Martulkov
BornOctober 23th, 1878
Veles, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
DiedDecember 19th, 1962 (aged 84)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Other names"Bismarck"
CitizenshipYugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria

Alexander Martulkov (Also known as "Bismarck") — (Macedonian: Александар “Алексо“ Мартулков) was a Macedonian revolutionary and publicist. As a member of the Macedonian Socialist Group, and later IMRO (United), he advocated for the liberation of Macedonia. Alexo was a member of the Presidium of ASNOM and in the Assembly of Macedonia.

Biography

Alexandra (Alekso) Martulkov (1878-1965) was born in Veles. He studied in his hometown and in Skopje, where he was expelled because of a rebellion. He left for Sofia, where he began to develop and propagate socialist ideology as a member of the Macedonian-Adrianopolean Social Democratic Group, part of Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party.

He joined IMRO at a young age. He participated in the fight against propaganda, and later (December, 1912) in the All-Macedonian Conference in Veles, together with Dimitrija Chupovski, Petar Poparsov, Rizo Rizov and other Macedonian patriots. In his youth he noted how Veles wasn't full of pro-bulgarian propaganda but instead with pro-Serbian (Serbophile) organized by the Serbian authority.

During his time in IMRO he worked at Veles and Kumanovo and helped in organizing and helping wounded soldiers during the llinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.

After the failure of the uprising he fled to Sofia to avoid being drafted by the Serbian authorities, then he became a member of IMRO (United), which is why he was persecuted and imprisoned, because of his pro-Macedonian national views. In the summer of 1935, he was arrested in Sofia and tried under the Law for the Protection of the State together with other members of the IMRO (United). At the trial, Martulkov was among the defendants who declared themselves as "Bulgarians" and not "Macedonians". Before the court, Martulkov denied his membership in IMRO (United). He was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of BGN 50,000.

September, 1944 Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria as well as asking for Pirin Macedonia to be united with Macedonia. One of the signatories is Aleksandar Martulkov.

Second World War and after

After the capitulation of Bulgaria in September 1944, he signed the Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria along with other prominent revolutionaries and actors such as: Pavel Shatev, Tushe Deliivanov, Petar Shandanov, Mihail Gerdzhikov and others. During this time he was a representative in the minority Macedonians in the BCP he along with Hristo Trajkov. In the 1940s He suffered an assassination attempt by bulgarian bandits which ended up taking Hristo Trajkov's life while he was badly injured After the Second World War, he returned to Macedonia, where he participated in ASNOM. He retires in Skopje. It is the bearer of the Ilinden Monument. He finished the memories of the revolutionary struggles in Macedonia in 1953. in Skopje, and were issued by the Institute of National History of Macedonia in 1954. Later, disappointed, he returns to Sofia, where he dies on December 19, 1962

In his memoirs "My participation in the revolutionary struggles of Macedonia", published in post-war Yugoslavia, Alexo Martulkov writes about the Macedonian revolution, about the fight against the Ottomans and various national-chauvinist propaganda of the neighboring countries, about the turmoil in the Organization. The struggle of the IMRO against the Serbian church propaganda, that is, against the Great Serbian armed nationalist propaganda, is very well described, as a fratricidal war, a war between Macedonian Bulgarians - Exarchates and Macedonians - Serbophiles (Serbian Chetnik Movement). He also talks about the factionalism in the Organization itself, about the personal interests of certain actors, about the antagonism between the pro-Macedonian elements and the pro-Bulgarian neo-supervisors, and so on.

Disappointed with the policy of the new authorities in Yugoslavia, he returned to Sofia, where he died on December 19, 1962. According to the Macedonian historian Ivan Katardzhiev such left-wing Macedonian activists, former members of the IMRO (United) never managed to get rid of their strong Bulgarophile sentiments. Thus, they practically continued to feel themselves as Bulgarians, even in Communist Yugoslavia after the Second World War.

External Source

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