Todor Aleksandrov fought for a free and united Macedonia, he was fought under VMRO against the Turks as a fifth faction in the Balkan wars. Because Macedonia was portioned and occupied under new enemies, Todor Aleksandrov believed the Macedonian question has not been settled so he reorganized VMRO to free Macedonia and unite it in an autonomous state. Todor Aleksandrov openly stated that “The Macedonian question is not Bulgarian, but simply a national Macedonian question”.On the 20th of June 1920, Todor Aleksandrov encouraged all the VMRO members in Vardarska Macedonia to vote for the communists and for anyone else who is for a Yugoslavian federation. Todor Aleksandrov in July 1923 stated that he is ready to fight for the annexation of Aegean Macedonia to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia under the condition that it obtains autonomy. Todor Aleksandrov was one of the signatories of the May Manifest, where it asked for a free and united Macedonia, Dimitar Vlahov in his memoirs explains that Todor Aleksandrov withdrew after from his signature as the May Manifest was not the same as the original (before the May manifest was going to be introduced, there was some dirty games being played which apparently have not been exposed in our history yet).Todor Aleksandrov’s daughter, Marija Koeva (who now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria) has explained that the reason why her father withdrew from his signature was that he didn’t want VMRO to become a party, Todor Aleksandrov wanted VMRO to stay as a fatherland patriotic organization, as Macedonia still hadn’t become a country.When Dimitar Vlahov was serving Todor Aleksandrov, VMRO was very united, the Macedonians were all united, however this in turn was not welcomed for the Serbian and Bulgarian propaganda, hence with their propaganda Serbia and Bulgaria tried to disrupt the unity in VMRO.Todor Aleksandrov’s success was that the Macedonians accepted him and were ready to risk their lives for him and Macedonia.During the time Todor Aleksandrov entered Vardarska Macedonia and traveled there, out of 17,000 normal soldiers that Yugoslavia had (not including border patrol guards chetniks, etc), 12,000 were stationed in Macedonia, in such circumstances, Todor Aleksandrov entered Vardar Macedonia, a man from the plains of Macedonia, he ate black bread with the poor villagers, he was one of them, he saw how they lived and could not bear the neighboring states build wealth on the poor Macedonians back.In the Macedonian mountains Todor Aleksandrov conducted interviews, met with foreign diplomats and journalists which he gave interviews to, he held discussions for Macedonia in London, Rome and Vienna.On 31st of August 1924, on Pirin Mountain Todor Aleksandrov was killed while he was eating, along with his bodyguard, Panzo Zafiro from sveti Nikole and Aleksandar Protogerov from Ohrid, with the death of Todor Aleksandrov, VMRO was also wounded.While heading to the congress of the Serskiot revolucioneren Okrug, Todor Aleksandrov met with Dimcho Balkanski and Dimcho Sugarski, as they were traveling to Lopovo, they rested and ate, it was then when Dimcho Balkanski killed Panzo Zafirov and Todor Aleksandrov, and it is interesting how Aleksandar Protogerov was not touched.The son of Panzo Zafirov said that “first my father was killed, then Todor Aleksandrov, I was born after the death of my father, the Serbian officials did not let my mother Christen me for 6 months because my father was the bodyguard of Todor Aleksandrov, My father was not a Bulgarian agent, nor a Bulgarian police officer, and if he was that, then he would have moved his whole family to Sofia how normally all the spy’s do”.Panche Kocev Ivanov from the village of Vrsakovo, Shtipsko said “It was like Todor Aleksandrov could foresee the future, when I was carrying him across the river Bregalnica he told me the following”; “The day will come when Macedonia will be a state, but I will not await that day”.The real killers of Todor Aleksandrov were the Bulgarian government along with Aleksandar Protogerov, they organized this dirty act at the expense of the greed of Aleksandar Protogerov for his desire to be in government of Bulgaria and to become leader. Aleksandar Protogerov stated the following after the death of Todor Aleksandrov “It is tough without Todor Aleksandrov, it is even tougher with him”Todor Aleksandrov was not killed in a Bulgarian courtyard, or in a street in Sofia, his destiny was to be killed on Macedonian land, on the legendary Pirin.Todor Aleksandrov was traveling to the Serskiot congress to strengthen the principles of VMRO, because people from the caliber of Aleko Vasilev and Georgi Atanasov (also involved in the murder of Todor Aleksandrov), Aleko Vasilev and Georgi Atanasov found it in themselves to control the assets and lives of the people from Petrichkiot Okrug, when Aleko Vasilev and Georgi Atanasov are killed, in their bank books were found a huge number of money stolen from VMRO, Todor Aleksandrov was a firm moral believer of VMRO and that the money of the organization is the money of the poor Macedonian people. Todor Aleksandrov is sung in many folk songs, it is not logical for a revolutionary who is sung by the people to be a traitor.When Todor Aleksandrov was killed, The Bulgarians and the Serbs were rejoicing the most, The Bulgarians were saying “More useful dead” and the Serbs were saying “The terror for our land is dead”, The Macedonians were however saying “Macedonia died”.
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