Bloody Christmas (1945)

The Bloody Christmas (Bulgarian: Кървав Божик, romanized: Karvav Bozhik; Macedonian: Крвав Божиќ, romanized: Krvav Božikj) was a campaign in which several hundred people of Macedonian Bulgarian descent were killed as collaborationists by the Yugoslav communist authorities in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in January 1945. Thousands of others who retained their pro-Bulgarian sympathies or views, suffered severe repression as a result. Many people with a pro-Bulgarian orientation or accused of having one were arrested and sentenced on fabricated charges. Also, many of the accused were pro-independence and anti-Yugoslav patriotic Macedonians. During the Cold War, the event was silenced by the communist authorities.

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