Ivan Mihailov
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Ivan Mihailov Gavrilov (Bulgarian: Иван Михайлов Гаврилов; 26 August 1896 – 5 September 1990), sometimes Vancho Mihailov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia, and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Under Mihailov, the IMRO identified itself closely with Bulgarian nationalism. He also cooperated actively with Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, Admiral Horthy’s Hungary and Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He changed the organization's tactics from guerrilla campaigns to individual terrorist acts. Numerous terrorist attacks were carried out by IMRO against Yugoslav officials under his leadership, the most spectacular of which was the assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia, in collaboration with Croatian Ustaše. During the last stage of the Second World War he tried to realize the IMRO plan about Independent Macedonia, however he abandoned this idea due to the lack of real German military support. At the end of the Cold War, only a months before his death in 1990, he kept insisting: I am Bulgarian from Macedonia. Thus, rejecting the Macedonian national separatism, he is considered a bulgarophile traitor in North Macedonia.
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26 August 1896 Novo Selo, Ottoman Empire (now Republic of Macedonia)
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| Died |
5 September 1990 (aged 94) Rome, Italy
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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