"I don't want to make a criticism centered on the history of the KKE. Let me refer to the Slavo-Macedonian alphabet that the Communists in Tashkent distributed to the children of the Slavo-Macedonian fighters of the DSE. Not even the 70,000 refugees of the civil war that the Greek state denied the right to return to their homeland in 1983. Nor to the Slavo-Macedonian Irini Gini/Mirka Ginova, the first woman executed in the civil war. Deal with all this on your own with your shenanigans"... Alexis Tsipras, Parliament, debate on the ratification of the "Prespa Agreement", January 24, 2019.
On July 26, 1946, while the Civil War had officially broken out, a woman was executed just outside Giannitsa. She was Mirka Ginova (Irini Gini, the Hellenized), a member and heroine of the KKE, but also a member and heroine of the Slavic NOF and the Skopians.
Gionova was born in Xanthogeia Pellis in 1916. Her father had taken part in the Ilinden uprising in 1903. Her relatives had relations with the Bulgarian comitatzis, at the same time. She studied as a kindergarten teacher in Kastoria and in 1939 the "fascist silk regime" appointed her to Arnissa. But Ginova started a relationship, got pregnant and had a child out of wedlock, something particularly serious, at that time, for a teacher. So she lost her place.
During the occupation it was organized in the youth of the KKE. After the liberation, she fled to the Yugoslav "Republic of Macedonia" accused in Greece of participating in the murders of two people. In Yugoslavia he joined NOF (Macedonian National Liberation Front), a creation of Tito whose mission was to seize Greek Macedonia and integrate it into the "people's democracy" of Yugoslavia. At the same time, she was a member of the Macedonian "Anti-Fascist Women's Union". The NOF did not approve the Varkiza Agreement and the cessation of the armed struggle, while it started sabotage against the men of the National Guard, which Greece had pushed to the border.
It is worth noting that the role of the NOF in the outbreak of the Greek Civil War and its development was not a small one. NOF guerillas had begun action in Macedonia long before the KKE took up arms again in March 1946.
After the agreement of the Communist Party of Greece and Yugoslavia on 16/10/1946, members of the NOF returned to Greece and its ranks KKE. The KKE tried to maintain control of the NOF, but due to the need to recruit as many men as possible, it could not stop the redemptive and propaganda activity of the pro-Yugoslav elements of the NOF. Sources state that at least 11,000 Slavs served in the ranks of the DSE during the Civil War.
And Ginova emerged as a leading executive of NOF. However, in some skirmish he was arrested by the Greek forces, sentenced to death and executed. At the military court where she was tried, she stated:"I am Macedonian and I believe in the KKE because it is the only party that represents all the peoples of Greece and guarantees equal rights to Macedonians." In Skopje, Ginova is considered a heroine of the "national liberation struggle of the enslaved Macedonians of the Aegean". She was especially honored by the dictator Tito, but also by the people of Skopje later, who, in fact, in 2006, erected a monument to her in the ancient Greek city of Monastirius.
Andriantas of Ginova in Skopje.
