On Great Bulgarian Nationalist Positions

On Great Bulgarian Nationalist Positions (На великобугарски националистички позиции), published in 1979 by Vančo Apostolski is a polemic against the memoirs of Tsola Dragoycheva, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The author argues that Dragoycheva's memoirs are an attempt to justify the positions of Great Bulgarian nationalism and to falsify the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party's (BCP) relations with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) regarding the Macedonian national question from 1941 to 1948.

Apostolski states that Dragoycheva’s claim that the "unresolved problem for the future fate of Macedonia hung like a millstone around the Party's neck" reveals the internal struggle of the BCP during the war. He contends that the BCP was torn between its desire to keep Macedonia, which was given to the Bulgarian bourgeoisie by Hitler, and the reality of the Macedonian people's armed uprising for national and social freedom.

The author refutes Dragoycheva's assertion that the CPY leadership agreed to temporarily place the Macedonian party organization under the BCP's leadership, and instead provides evidence from documents to show that the CPY's policy was to preserve the unity of the Yugoslav workers' movement.