Veles: 74 years since the shooting of the Macedonian heroine Mirka Ginova

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A Greek soldier who attended the shooting recorded the last moments of Mirka Ginova's life.

The Association of Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia "Zvezda" in front of the monument of the fallen fighters from Aegean Macedonia and the bust of Mirka Ginova in Veles, by laying flowers and a convenient report and program marked 74 years since the shooting of the Macedonian heroine Mirka Ginova on July 27, 1946 year and also 71 years since the Greek Civil War.

Bouquets of fresh flowers in honor of these Macedonian fighters were laid by the members of this Veles association together with the members of the Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia "Makedon" and other such associations of the Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia from Stip, Bitola and Skopje, as well as representatives of The Union of Fighters, from the Municipality of Veles and Gradsko, from the political parties and members of their families.

About the life and revolutionary path of the Macedonian heroine Irina Guinness in Macedonian known as Mirka Gineva 1916 -1946, reminded Aleksandar Janevski, President of the Association of Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia-Bitola.

She was the first woman shot in Greece for political reasons, teacher Irina Guinness was to blame for her fight.

- Mirka Ginova is an activist and fighter for democracy and freedom. During World War II and the Greek Civil War. Together with thousands of Macedonian and Greek patriots, he fought against the fascist occupier in Greece, and later against the forces of reaction and monarcho-fascism. Mirka Ginova was a woman who did not accept life as peaceful in exchange for the ideals of the Macedonian struggle and freedom, as a fighter for the Macedonian national liberation movement, and she became a symbol of courage and bravery of the Macedonian woman - said Janevski.

He reminded that Mirka Ginova in 1945 joined the secret Macedonian Liberation Revolutionary Organization. During the outbreak of the Civil War in Greece, she participated in the armed groups of the National Liberation Front. On July 6, 1946, in the place Dolga Livada on the mountain Pocit near Voden, Mirka Ginova formed a small partisan detachment. Soon in an action of 400 Greek gendarmes and soldiers, the detachment was surrounded and Mirka Ginova, who was the only one armed, killed two gendarmes. When she was left without ammunition, she and her six friends were captured. She was tortured and taken to the streets of Voden.

- But she remained upright and smiled all the time at the people who gathered to see her, after which she was brutally tortured and buried up to her neck. She was then taken to a city school trial with six friends, who were sentenced to death by firing squad. She and six of her comrades were shot at 6 a.m. on July 27, 1946. During the shooting, she did not allow her eyes to be closed and sang the International all the time.

A Greek soldier who attended the shooting recorded the last moments of Mirka Ginova's life.

In a letter to her father, Kostadin, he wrote, "Congratulations on the birth of your daughter. She greeted death with a smile on her face, singing boldly.

When he asked her what she wanted to write to her parents, she told him if you like it write this to my father

 

- I am dying because I believe with all my soul as honest, not as dishonest, not for my life and for the worse life of others, she was wonderful and did not show despair until her death, and the others, but mostly her. I am not writing these words to praise your daughter, to present here only the truth that I saw. I greet you, a soldier who was made duty to attend this unfortunate act, reminded Janevski.

 

Today's event was attended by 82-year-old Jovanka Markoska, who is one of the families of those killed, who laid flowers at the monument to the fallen fighters from the Aegean part of Macedonia with tears in their eyes.

She told MIA that her brother Atanas Markov, 20, was captured and killed in the Greek Civil War. His name is written on the monument. He told us that he had been captured and sentenced to death on June 20, 1948 in the town of Negush. She wrote and dedicated verses about him and all the fighters who died of pain.

- White Sea-Beascule. Bloody tears white eyes, end - said with tears in her eyes 82-year-old Markoska.

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