The Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, or ASNOM, was formed this day in 1944. It was the supreme legislative and executive people's representative body of the communist Macedonian state from August 1944 until the end of World War II. The body was set up by the Macedonian Partisans during the final stages of the World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia. That occurred clandestinely in August 1944, in the Bulgarian occupation zone of Yugoslavia.

The first plenary session of ASNOM was convened underground on the symbolic date of August 2 (Ilinden uprising day) 1944 in the St. Prohor Pčinjski Monastery, now in Serbia. The Monastery and surrounding area, which are part of the Region of Macedonia, were transferred from SR Macedonia to SR Serbia in 1947. The most important assembly decisions are the proclaiming of a Macedonian nation-state of ethnic Macedonians, proclamation of Macedonian as the official language of the Macedonian state. The citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic affiliation, would be guaranteed all civil rights, as well as the right to their mother tongue and confession of faith.

The first session was opened with the anthem of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) "Rise up dayspring of the freedom", which became also the anthem of the newly proclaimed republic. However, in the next year it was banned by the authorities as bulgarophile sentiment. The Assembly issued a Manifesto which described the situation in the Vardar Banovina under the old Yugoslavia as that of a colony. The manifesto issued by ASNOM's first session also explicitly stated its hope for the "unification of the whole Macedonian people", i.e., in the whole of the geographical region of Macedonia.

Simultaneously another state was declared by pro-Nazi Germany Macedonian right-wing nationalists. In early September, Nazi Germany briefly sought to establish a puppet state called independent Macedonia. However, the state was de facto not established due to the lack of any military support. Despite this it was declared by Macedonian right nationalists on 8 September. After Bulgaria have switched sides in the war on September 9, the Bulgarian 5th. Army stationed in Macedonia, moved back to the old borders of Bulgaria. In the early October the newly formed Bulgarian People's Army together with the Red Army reentered occupied Yugoslavia. The Germans were driven off from Vardar Macedonia in the late November by the Bulgarian Army with the help of the units of the Macedonian National Liberation Army.

The ASNOM became officially operational in December, shortly after the German retreat. The first step to eliminate Čento was the installation of Lazar Koliševski, the new leader of the Communist Party of Macedonia, as his first deputy in the ASNOM presidency during the second session of this assembly on 28–31 December. In September 1944, Koliševski who was a prisoner, was freed by the new Bulgarian pro-communist government. At the same session a decision was taken a tribunal to be created, that will judge "the collaborators of the occupiers who have panned the Macedonian name and the Macedonian national honor".

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  • Skysthelimit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    proclaiming of a Macedonian nation-state of ethnic Macedonians

    Whoa.

    So they were alt-right then.

    • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      national liberation is not fascist. you have to get that Macedonia had never been a country before this point. they were under other empires and groups for centuries and now fascism had come and been imposed upon them by Bulgarians claiming Macedonians as Bulgarians. their identity, and the historical suppression of it, has a lot to do with the movement, that doesn't make them fash, nationalism can be left wing and very much was in much of Yugoslavia with the communist partisans

      • Skysthelimit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        An ethno-state is exactly what the alt-right wants.

        "Can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding"

        -- They Might Be Giants, "Your Racist Friend"

        • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          you really should educate yourself on national liberation, this is not a hot take. there is a difference in different types of nationalism. Cubans are nationalist, Yugoslavs were nationalist, Vietnam is nationalist, this is not the same type of exclusive nationalism of settler colonial or imperialist powers, it's a bottom up nationalism of struggle against imperialism that seeks to destroy their socialist ideals. nationalism started as a radical left wing idea in opposition to divine monarchism, you're stuck viewing this through your own cultural lense than the much wider topic it is

    • WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided]M
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      3 years ago

      So they were alt-right then.

      Well, there was also

      The citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic affiliation, would be guaranteed all civil rights, as well as the right to their mother tongue and confession of faith.

      So not at all fascist

      • Skysthelimit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yaknow, we had that in America too, it was called "all men are created equal" and it is a very common lie when founding a country.

        • VeganVelveeta [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          :very-intelligent: “Fighting to retain your indigenous language and culture is the same thing as creating an apartheid settler-colonial state.”