Zajkov, Georgi Nikolov (pseudonym: Geo Pirinski) (village city, Bansko, 15. ⅷ 1901 – Sofia, Bulgaria) – The most active cultural directional Deper Mean Macedonian progressive emigration in the United States. Upon completion of the gymnasium in Kyustendil and the participation in Marxist circles, immediately after the Sofia over 9 June 1923, emigrated to the United States and became a member of the US CP (1924- 1951). He works in the North Carolina mines, and after the General Motors company in Gr. Pontiac (Michigan). In September 1929 Together with 14 Ilindens, they form the first Macedonian progressive group in Pontiac, which then grows into a Macedonian National Association in the United States and Canada (later a Macedonian American National Union in the United States and Canada), with the Central Committee, whose president is the Ilinden duke Smile Voydanov, and the secretary geo Pirinski. They issue the most significant authorities of MS / MANS with a clearly defined Macedonian national conception in the interwar period (with collaborators from all parts of Macedonia): “Macedonian Bóletin” (1930-1931), “Balkan Society” (1931-1934), “Labor Macedonia “(1934-1938),” People will “(1938-1978), etc. Organizer of the annual Congresses of MS / MANS and editor of the annual collections (1931- 1940). It writes and signed significant documents for the Macedonian movement. He was elected secretary and the Slavic Committee in the United States to assist the Slavic peoples of the Balkans suffered by fascism (1942-1951). Following the formation of a democratic federal Macedonia, under his name in New York, he published the brochure “On Free Macedonia” (Fort A Free Macedonia), in which he reviews the long-standing struggle of the Macedonian people for his own national state and chaired the declaration of the first session of ASNOM for guaranteeing the right to “full freedom and equality of all of Macedonia, regardless of faith, nationality and political affiliation; The right to freedom of opinion, religion and free education and proclamation of the Macedonian language for official “. Due to the Macedonian activities, it was closed several times, and with the McCarty Law on Internal Security (1950) was sentenced to 10 years in prison or extradition to the country from which he came. In 1951 is extradited by the United States to Bulgaria, and here is immediately placed in the service of the Bulgarian high-stage policy: a member of the BCP (1951); Vice President (1951-1969) and then chairman of the National Committee for Peace Protection (1969-1972); Member of the National Council of the Obreditant Front of Bulgaria (1951); The Bureau of the Slavic Committee of Bulgaria (1952); The World Peace Council (1953); The Central Control-Audit Committee of BCP (1966); the resort of the Committee for Bulgarians abroad (1982); MP, ⅵ and ⅶ People’s Assembly of Bulgaria and declared a hero of the Socialist Labor (1981). AM: “Makedonski Bóletin” (Pontiac, 1930-1931), “Balkan Self” (Detroit, 1931-1934), “Labor Macedonia” (Detroit, 1934-1938), “People will” (Detroit, 1938-1978) ; annual Congress Collections of MNS (1931-1940); Georg PirinskS, FREE A FREE MACEDONIA, NE DRCK, SA.; Geo Pirinski, what kind of Safiah and Safiam, Sofia, 1970. Lit.: Mile Mihailov, the Macedonian National Union in the United States and Canada from 1928 to 1935, , Zagreb, 1978; Dr. Blaze Ristovski, the Macedonian people and the Macedonian nation, 2, Skopje, 1983, 511-528; Todor Cepreganov, national events of the Macedonian emigration in the United States, Clock: Macedonian scientific-literary comrades and its continuity until the founding of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Attachments from the scientific gathering …, Manu, 1997, 269-278. Bl. R.
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Кириличен напис ЗАЈКОВ, Георги Николов