Metodi Shatorov

Metodi Shatorov - Sharlo

Metodi Tasev Shatorov - Sharlo (Bulgarian: Методи Шаторов - Шарло and Macedonian Cyrillic: Методиja Шаторов - Шарло) (1897 in Prilep, Ottoman Empire – 1944 near Pazardjik, Bulgaria) was a pro-Bulgarian Macedonian politician and outstanding leader of the Macedonian communists during the first half of 20th century.

Monument of Metodi Shatorov in Bratsigovo, Bulgaria

He became a member of Bulgarian Communist Party in 1920 and later became also member of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United). As significant party's worker, he grew as functionary of Comintern and a member of the Central Committee of Bulgarian Communist Party. In 1940 he went back to Vardar Macedonia, then part of Yugoslavia where he was elected Secretary of the Macedonian Regional Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party (YCP). In April 1941, after the Bulgarian takeover of Vardar Banovina during the World War II, the Macedonian communists fell in the sphere of influence of the Bulgarian Communist Party under Sharlo's leadership. The Macedonian Regional Committee refused to remain in contact with the YCP and linked up with BCP as soon as the invasion of Yugoslavia started. Sharlo refused to distribute the proclamation of the YCP which called for military action against Bulgarians.

For his pro-Bulgarian actions, he was later sentenced to death by the Yugoslav Communist Party. After that Shatorov moved to Sofia, where he began working as one of the leaders of Bulgaria's partisan movement. He was killed under unknown circumstances in 1944 in a battle between partisans and gendarmerie in the Rhodopi mountains near the city of Pazardjik. Shatorov's supporters in Vardar Macedonia, called Sharlisti, were systematically exterminated by the YCP in the autumn of 1944, and repressed for their anti-Yugoslav and pro-Bulgarian political positions.

External links

• „За тебе говори приказната“
• Ефтим Гашев „Шарловизија“
• Стефан Алексовски „Која е вистината за Шарло“
• Кокан Стојчев „'Браварот' од Кумровец наредил, а Колишевски од 'Крагуевац' ја извршил задачата - смена на Шарло“
• Владимир Јовановски „Шарло 'акробатот' и Лазо младоженецот“
• „Од чии куршуми загина Шаторов?“
• „Убийството на Методи Шаторов“
• „Националното дело на Методи Шаторов - Шарло“
• „Влиянието на делото на Шаторов“
• "Metodi Shatorov"