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Dimitar Vlahov

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Dimitar Vlahov (1878, Kilkis, present day Greece - 1953, Belgrade, present day Serbia) was a revolutionary from Macedonia, member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (also knowan as IMRO). As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians from the Republic of Macedonia consider him an ethnic Macedonian and in Bulgaria he is considered an ethnic Bulgarian.

He was born in Kilikis and learned in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. After that he emigrated in Kingdom of Bulgaria and graduated the secondary school in Belogradtchik. Vlachov studied also chemistry in Germany and Switzerland, but graduated it in Sofia University. In 1903 Vlahov entered a military service in a Officer's school in Sofia. Then he worked as teacher in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki where he was active in IMRO. In this period he was arrested from the Ottoman authorities and later emigrated to Switzerland where he took part in socialist circles. In 1905 Vlahov went back to Bulgaria and worked as a teacher in Kazanlak. In 1908, after the Young Turks revolution he began working in the Bulgarian secondary school in Thessaloniki again. In the next few years Vlahov was active politically as a member of the Ottoman Parliament as a representative from the Federative People's Party (Bulgarian section). After the Balkan Wars Vlachov was representative of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in high diplomatic and administrative positions in Odessa and in Pristina. In 1924 IMRO entered negotiations with the Comintern about collaboration between the communists and the Macedonian movement and the creation of a united Macedonian movement. In this case Vlahov helped the subscription of the so-called May Manifesto about forming a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union. In 1925 he was one of the founders of the connected with Comintern - IMRO (United) in Vienna. He also became a member of Bulgarian Communist Party. During the late 1920's he worked in France, Germany and Austria as a Comintern publicist. From 1936 to 1944 he lived in the Soviet Union and in 1944 he went back in the new Socialist Republic of Macedonia where he worked in high state's and political positions. As last survivor among the communists associated with the idea of Macedonian autonomy Dimitar Vlahov was used "solely for window dressing". Vlachov died in Beograd in 1953 as pensioner.


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