Политиката на БКП по македонския въпрос (юли 1948–1956)
The Policy of the BCP on the Macedonian Question (July 1948–1956)

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the policy of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) on the Macedonian question from July 1948 to 1956. The claims of communist propaganda and historiography are refuted that during that period the BCP and its leaders at that time had given up their denationalization Macedonianist policy and had corrected their "mistakes" towards the population in Pirin Macedonia. The facts submitted indicate, however, that during the period under reviews the BCP continued to pursue the Pro-Macedonianist policy followed from September 1944 to June 1948: it tried to continue the so-called cultural-national autonomy for the “Macedonians”, worked for the “cultivation of a Macedonian national awareness” among the Bulgarians in that region, holding in 1956, as in 1948 a second demographic census, during which again in a compulsory and administrative way it declared them “Macedonians”. The discontinuation of this nihilistic policy occurred as late as in 1965 when the population in an official demographic census declared its Bulgarian nationality.

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