Bulgarian Communist Party

Okay, if Stambuliski failed, it's time to definitely turn to the communists.

So from 1924, he joins the Communist Party of Bulgaria, and he starts this journal called La Federacion Balkanica.

And in it, he gathers people, most notably Mustafa Golubic and Pavle Bastaic, Kostan Novakovic as well of the Yugoslavs, some other people.

David Fabian is kind of the main contributor of the Romanians.

In particular, how that invasion shocked everyday Bulgarians, ending the convenient situation where the country's pro-Russian and pro-German feelings could easily be reconciled.

But more than that, it pressed the Bulgarian Communist Party to begin armed actions against the government.

However, in the first few months, it seemed like the communists were scrambling, while the government arrested them by the hundreds.

This was part of a wider crackdown on anti-government activity.

But just days after the Dramma uprising was fully put down, Bulgaria faced the first attack of its forces in Vardar, Macedonia as well.

Now to understand this attack, we first need to understand what's been happening with Macedonian communists.

I've mentioned how they agreed to be incorporated into the Bulgarian Communist Party and ignored calls from the Yugoslav communists to begin armed action against the Bulgarian authorities there.

In fact, quite ironically, the Macedonian communists were more enthusiastic about Bulgarian annexation than the Bulgarian communists were, despite the fact that the Bulgarian communists had previously argued that the Macedonians were, quote, neither Serbs nor Bulgarians, but only Macedonians, end quote.