Balists – members of the Albanian nationalist and pro-fascist movement, organized in the National Front “Bali Avbeeta”. Acted for the creation of Greater Albania. They constituted the armed part of the organization and were sent directly into conflict with partisan units in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. They were particularly calculated with members of a new one from Western Macedonia, performing murders, terror and looting of the Macedonian and other non-Albanians. Lit.: Gorgi Malkovski, Balists, Skopje, 2002; The same, political parties and organizations in Macedonia in World War II 1941-1944, Skopje. F. Malc. C. “Balkan”, an unofficial body of MNVD (Sofia, 1903)
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис БАЛИСТИ