Comintern (Communist International), KKE (Greek Communist Party) and the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia

Question

Comintern’s involvement on the creation of a Slav-“Macedonian” identity and a Slav-“Macedonian" nation state in the pre-Yugoslavian era (which led Tito to assign the name of the “People’s Republic of Macedonia” to the former “Vardarska Banovina” which became the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia – FYROM ) is attested and well known. But what about the position of the Greek Communist party -KKE- of the time? Please provide sources.

Answer 1

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_P...

At its third party congress in 1924, the KKE announced its policy to promote the creation of two new independent secessionist states in the northern Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace. This policy was reiterated several times throughout the pre-war era. In 1934, the KKE expressed its intent to "fight for the national self-determination, and ultimately secession, of the repressed Macedonians and Thracians, and to collaborate for this goal with the Bulgarian organizations of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and the Thracian Revolutionary Organisation".

KKE's policy, which would have entailed the detachment of large areas of northern Greece, was dictated by Comintern and hurt the popularity of Communism at the time. Nikos Zachariadis officially renounced KKE's policy of secession in 1945.

The promise of self-determination for Macedonia was however resumed during the 5th congress of the central committee of KKE held during the civil war; this has been attributed to the fact that by 1949, about 40% on the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) was composed of Greek Slavophones. The number of Slavic speakers in the DSE increased considerably after the merger of it with the National Liberation Front in 1946.

Have a look here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_Comm...

Answer 2

http://books.google.com/books?id=SB1OrH8iZtcC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=greek+anti+makedonien+under+tito&source=web&ots=IG6kBGGq_g&sig=7cY1_dKqxedPXxJcdAfBcS5p7dA

Greek Nationalism toward Macedonia is almost paranoid,
must be a late Alexander syndrom. After WW2 criminals
in Greece were supported by the west to install the usual
dictatorship, in fear of communism. Was indeed a threat,
but the mass murder, political cleansing is a thrauma still.
Tito the Croatian, then Serbian partisan, supported the
comunists halfheartedly, he knew that Stalin wanted to
kill him, same as it happened to the Bulgarian leader.
Yugoslavia was unique, you could run down the street,
shouting, "Tito is an idiot" with not much fear, but if you
dared to say, he's the sofa hero of Jovanka (his wife)
you were treated as it was "normal" in the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As0LxS10WDUdini7QwbH4n_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071101220224AA4EfYo
I Cr 13;8a

Answer 4

http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/archive/f-24.html

http://historyofmacedonia.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/paidomazoma-communist-children-abductions-in-the-greek-civil-war/