World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:02:18 1 Background
00:04:43 2 Occupation of Macedonia
00:04:53 2.1 Invasion of Yugoslavia
00:05:52 2.2 Division Macedonian region of southern Yugoslavia
00:06:34 2.3 Collaborationist organizations
00:10:26 3 1941
00:10:35 3.1 Local resistance under question
00:12:57 3.2 First attempts
00:15:25 4 1942
00:15:35 4.1 Local resistance still under question
00:17:07 4.2 Further development
00:20:58 5 1943
00:21:08 5.1 Support from the CC of the CPY
00:23:09 5.2 Formation of the Communist Party of Macedonia (CPM)
00:25:17 5.3 Formation of the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia
00:30:33 5.4 Bulgarian actions in 1943
00:32:41 6 1944 and aftermath
00:32:51 6.1 February Campaign
00:37:59 6.2 Destruction of the Vardar Chetnik Corps
00:42:15 6.3 Actions in northern Vardar Macedonia and south-eastern Serbia
00:43:47 6.4 Spring Offensive
00:49:14 6.5 ASNOM
00:50:42 6.6 "Maximalists" and "Minimalists"
00:52:38 6.7 Failed attempt to create Macedonian puppet state
00:55:27 6.8 Bulgaria switching sides
00:57:03 6.9 Final operations for the liberation of Macedonia
00:57:14 6.9.1 Bulgarian Army
00:59:28 6.9.2 Macedonian partisans
01:02:34 6.10 Aftermath
01:04:19 6.11 Controversy
01:04:28 6.11.1 Communist repressions
01:07:27 6.11.2 Manipulation of historical events
01:09:21 7 See also



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World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia started with the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia. Macedonian communist Partisans of the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia, part of the Yugoslav Partisan movement, started a political and military campaign on 11 October 1941 to resist the occupation of Vardar Macedonia by Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Albanian forces. Officially, the area was called then Vardar Banovina, because the very name Macedonia was prohibited in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.Initially it had no real success, starting to grow only in 1943 with the capitulation of Italy and the Soviet victories over Nazi Germany. The role of the Bulgarian communists, which avoided organizing mass armed resistance, was also a key factor. Their influence over the Macedonian Party organization remained dominant until the spring of 1943 when Tito's special emissary Svetozar Vukmanović arrived in Macedonia. This led to the rise of younger generation anti-Bulgarian oriented partisan leaders, who were loyal to Yugoslavia. In the western part of the area, the Albanian Partisans also participated in the resistance movement.
After Bulgaria switched sides in the war in September 1944, the Bulgarian 5th. Army stationed in Macedonia, moved back to the old borders of Bulgaria. In the early October the newly formed Bulgarian People's Army together with the Red Army reentered occupied Yugoslavia to blocking the German forces withdrawing from Greece. Vardar Macedonia was liberated in end of November when communist Yugoslavia was established. 
The operation was called the National Liberation War of Macedonia (Macedonian: Народноослободителна борба на Македонија, Narodnoosloboditelna borba na Makedonija) by the Partisans, in line with the greater Yugoslav People's Liberation War, but combatants also developed further aspirations over the geographic region of Macedonia. It marked the defeat of Bulgarian nationalism and  the victory of Macedonism in the area.