Barbis, Henry (Henry Barbesse) (Paris, 17. 1873 – Moscow, 30. ⅷ 1935) – French writer and socialist, who advocated protection against terrorizing the Macedonian population. He was born in the First World War and the Macedonian (Thessaloniki) Front. He is the author of the Anti-war novel “Fire” (1916). As a member of the Communist Party of France (1923), he was president of the World Committee against Fascism and the War and Chairman of the Defense Committee of White Terror in the Balkans, based in Paris. He showed up as a great friend of the Macedonian people. Among other things, he participated in the Survey on Terrorist from the Vanchamyhailists and, together with other intellectuals, sent a protest telegram to the Bulgarian government (1925). In his book “Les Borauge” (“Pallers”, Paris, 1926) condemned the terror of the Bulgarian government of Aleksandar Tsankov in the Pirin part of Macedonia. As an editor of c. “Mond, among other things, wrote:” Macedonians, who have their authentic special language and their undeniable ethnic originality, do not even have the right to call Macedonians. We belong to the right clear and highly protest against enslavement and oppression of a nation. “(June 1930). Lit.: Tosho Popovski, Svca Fiftist Communist, “Communist”, ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ, 89, Belgrade, 8. ⅰ 1959, 7; Djuring Donevska-Trentevska, in the service of White Terror, “Macedonian Time”, ⅱ, 14, Skopje, October 1995, 17-18. S. Ml.
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Кириличен напис БАРБИС, Анри