Vanco Mihailov

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Sounds like a master manipulator

[VMRO]

Sounds like a master manipulator

One of the best in our history if you ask me.

There are some today who put him up there with the likes of Delchev while turning a blind eye what type of person he really way.

I don't think he ever stepped over the border to Serbian Occupied Macedonia as part of a cheta or otherwise. He had the nerve to dress up in komita unifor for photo ops though.

[Liberator of Makedonija]

One of the best in our history if you ask me.

There are some today who put him up there with the likes of Delchev while turning a blind eye what type of person he really way.

I don't think he ever stepped over the border to Serbian Occupied Macedonia as part of a cheta or otherwise. He had the nerve to dress up in komita unifor for photo ops though.

Do you believe he actually cared about Macedonia or was always a Bulgarian agent?

[vicsinad]

Do you believe he actually cared about Macedonia or was always a Bulgarian agent?

He was motivated by power and control. He used the Bulgarian government and they used him. He used and manipulated the Macedonian people. Many despised him at the time and many of those that supported him did so out of fear. He butchered the Macedonian Cause. He cared more about being King of Macedonia than he did about freeing Macedonia.

[VMRO]

Exactly, he manipulated and organised the murder of many patriotic Macedonians simply because he saw them as a threat.

Mihajlov manipulated VMRO by passing death sentences without the Central Committee ever voting for such an act (A breach of the Organisations rules).

Vojvodi such as Ivan Brlo, Pancho Mihajlov and others were assassinated just so Mihajlov could be supreme leader.

The downfall of VMRO must simply be attributed to Mihajlov, the organisation lost its way by conducting a civil war instead of focusing on the occupied territories of Macedonia.

There is a CIA doc that mentions Mihajlov openly offered the CIA to use VMRO. This was after 1932 while he was in exile. opportunism and Self interest was what he was all about.

[Risto the Great]

He must have had quite the personality. Any video footage of this pig?

[vicsinad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24LfTKAH8s

Here he is in a Bulgarian interview.

[Risto the Great]

He was clearly very old there, but certainly able to structure sentences that danced. I wonder if there were any videos from when he was younger. I can't see any on youtube. Always interesting to see people with the ability to influence (good or bad).

[vicsinad]

Vojvodi such as Ivan Brlo, Pancho Mihajlov and others were assassinated just so Mihajlov could be supreme leader.

The downfall of VMRO must simply be attributed to Mihajlov, the organisation lost its way by conducting a civil war instead of focusing on the occupied territories of Macedonia.

Add to that list Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, Todor Panica, Aleko Vasilev, Chaulev, and Arsen Jovkov, among many, many, many others. Essentially, most of Sandanski's followers were gunned down at the orders of Mihailov (and some from Aleksandrov prior).

[vicsinad]

He was clearly very old there, but certainly able to structure sentences that danced. I wonder if there were any videos from when he was younger. I can't see any on youtube. Always interesting to see people with the ability to influence (good or bad).

I don't know of any videos of him when he was younger. There aren't many from the IMRO back then.

[Risto the Great]

Mihailov had nine life-sentences and three death-sentences in Bulgaria.

I just read this. Funny how becoming a good Bulgarian can make things go away.

[Niko777]

Many despised him at the time and many of those that supported him did so out of fear. He butchered the Macedonian Cause.

The leaders of the MPO in the 1940s portrayed him as a savior and many (if not, most) of the Macedonian diaspora in North America believed in Mihajlov, not that different from how the Macedonian diaspora supported Ljubco Georgievski in the early 90s.

[VMRO]

I don't know of any videos of him when he was younger. There aren't many from the IMRO back then.

There might be personal videos from the 1960's but these would be part of his personal archives.

He was always in hiding whilst he was living in Rome and to meet with him had to be done through his trusted circle.

I've come across private photo's of Mihajlov from what it appears the 70's or 80's over the past few years.

[Niko777]

He was always in hiding whilst he was living in Rome and to meet with his his trusted circle would organised it.

The Mladenov family of Toronto would regularly meet with him in Rome.
This family was so pro-Bulgarian that they even separated from the MPO because to them it wasn't Bulgarian enough lol.


Ivan Mihajlov with George Mladenov:

1967


1968


1980s?


1990

[vicsinad]

The leaders of the MPO in the 1940s portrayed him as a savior and many (if not, most) of the Macedonian diaspora in North America believed in Mihajlov, not that different from how the Macedonian diaspora supported Ljubco Georgievski in the early 90s.

Many, but not most. The 1930s and 1940s North American Macedonians were split between the MPL and the MPO.