Batino, Rafael Josef (Pseud. Misho Cvetkovic) (Bitola, 1910 – Vucia Kleka, Serbia, ⅶ 1942) – Communist, trade union activist. He studied in Mexico, where he became a prominent leader of the youth and member of Mexico KP. He was expelled and returned to Bitola (1934), where he organized strikes of Ursic Trade Unions (1935), which was why he was convicted (1936). The Raby in Sremska Rafael Batino Mitrovica was along with Mosha Pijade and became “Red University Professor”. There he began to prepare a dictionary and grammar of the Macedonian language, prepared the first translation of Marx’s “capital” in Macedonian. She escaped from the prison (1941) and entered the suborial partisan squad. He was polit. Secretary of the district committee for Sandzak – under the name Misho Cvetkovic (1942). He was captured by the Chetniks of Mount Ljubishi and Shot. Lit.: Zenny Leel, Tide and Slim of Historje Yemea Vardarzke Macedonia, Gordles Milanovac, 1990; Gorgi Tsolev Dimovski, Bitola Jews, Bitola, 1993. J. NAM.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис БАТИНО, Рафаел Јосеф