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Todor Panitsa
BornJuly 2, 1879
DiedMay 7, 1925

Todor Nikolov Panitsa (July 2, 1879 Oryahovo, Bulgaria – May 7, 1925 Vienna) was a Bulgarian revolutionary figure active in the region of Macedonia.[2] He was one of the leaders of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

Panitsa was born in Oryahovo, northwestern Bulgaria, a town located on the right bank of the Danube. He grew up in the family of Nikola Panitsa from Tarnovo and Mitanka Peltekova from Svishtov. Panitsa studied in Lom, where he was attracted to the Macedonian liberation movement. Later he remained an orphan and was raised by his uncle in Varna. Three years Panitsa served as a cavalryman in the Bulgarian army. At the end of 1902 he became an activist of IMRO. Then Panitsa joined the band of Nikola Pushkarov and participated in the Ilinden uprising as rebel in Skopje region. After the uprising he arrived in Varna, Bulgaria. In 1904 Panitza went back to Ottoman Macedonia and joined the band of Mihail Daev. The failure of the Ilinden Uprising reignited the old rivalries between the varying factions of the Macedonian revolutionary movement. In 1907 Panitsa organized and threshed the assassinations of Boris Sarafov and Ivan Garvanov, a right wing's IMRO leaders.[3] During the Young Turks Revolution together with Yane Sandanski he cooperated with the Ottoman authorities and became a member of one of the one left political parties in Ottoman Empire - People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section). This party would like creatе a Balkan Socialist Federation, and Macedonian State as a part of that Federation.

During the Balkan Wars he supported the Bulgarian Army operations in Macedonia, initially with the idea, to fight for autonomous Macedonia, but later fighting for Bulgaria. During the First World War, he was badly injured in the battles of the Bulgarian army against the French in Krivolak. Later he became a mayor of Drama, then occupied by Bulgaria. After the war the IMRO split. In December 1921, left-leaning deserters formed the Macedonian Federative Organization, where Panitsa was active. The Bulgarian premier Aleksandar Stamboliyski started then a campaign against the IMRO after his visit to Belgrade in May 1921. At this point Stambolijski decided upon an anti-IMRO guerrilla, entrusting the job to Panitsa and other federalists. In the bloody battles that followed, Panitsa's federalists, aided by the Bulgarian government, set out to destroy the IMRO, but it scattered the federalists and launched an attack on the Stamboliyski government. In 1923 Stambolijski himself was assassinated by the IMRO.[4]

After the defeat of the Communist uprising of September 1923 in Bulgaria, the new government repressed leftist Macedonian organizations. Panitsa went into emigration in Vienna, where the federalist leadership was reassembled. Here Panitsa got into contact with the Comintern and Bulgarian Communist Party and became a Soviet spy and an associate of the Military Department of the Bulgarian Communist Party.[5] In 1924, the Macedonian Federative Organisation, then headed by him, reached an agreement with the IMRO, the so called May Manifesto. The revelation that Bulgarian nationalist organisation as IMRO, officially sanctioned such a separatist and communist-influenced document, caused uproar in its ranks. After the IMRO revoked the agreement, Panitsa and the federalists participated by the foundation of the pro-communist IMRO (United), that was accepted as a partner in the Balkan Communist Federation and was sponsored directly by the Comintern.[6] Panitsa was alleged then by IMRO to have served foreign interests and was sentenced to dead. In 1925 he was killed by Mencha Karnicheva, an activist of the IMRO's right wing in Vienna.[7]

References

  1. ^ Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0810862956, p. 168.
  2. ^ For freedom and perfection. The Life of Yane Sandansky. Mercia MacDermott, Journeyman press, London, 1988, p. 201.
  3. ^ На 28 ноември 1907 г. Тодор Паница убива Борис Сарафов и Иван Гарванов.
  4. ^ The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Ivo Banac, Cornell University Press, 1988, ISBN 0801494931, pp. 323-324.
  5. ^ Разведка и контрразведка в лицах, Анатолий Валентинович Диенко, Русскiй мiръ, 2002, стр. 375.
  6. ^ Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History, Andrew Rossos, Hoover Press, 2008, ISBN 081794883X, p. 132.
  7. ^ 8 май 1925 г. Във виенския Бургтеатър Менча Кърничева застрелва Тодор Паница

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