The Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization or MYSRO ( bg, Македонска младежка тайна революционна организация, mk, Македонска младинска тајна револуционерна организација), was the name of a secret pro-Bulgarian

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established by the

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

, active across the most regions of Macedonia between 1922 and 1941. The statue of MYSRO was approved personally from the leader of the

(IMRO),

Todor Alexandrov Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, best known as Todor Alexandrov ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Тодор Александров), also spelt as Alexandroff (4 March 1881 – 31 August 1924), was a Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, politician and t ...

. The aim of MYSRO was in concordance with the statue of IMRO – unification of all of Macedonia in an autonomous unit within Greater Bulgaria. It was established in 1921–1922 in Zagreb by students from Vardar Macedonia, it soon gained influence amongst

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communities in

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and other places where Macedonian students lived.Обвинетите македонски студенти ги бранел Анте Павелиќ
/ref> In a short time its influence had spread amongst the student youth in Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia and across Europe. After the

Skopje Student Trial The Skopje student trial began on December 5, 1927, in Skopje, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The trial was against activists of the Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization. A total of 20 Macedonian Bulgarians, Macedonian Bulgarian ...

of MYSRO followers, the local intelligentsia devolved the organizational structure even further. In Greece, the government exiled scores of suspected members to the Aegean Islands. When in 1941 the Yugoslav and

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rulers were replaced by Bulgarian administration, the organization became marginalized, and ultimately dissolved.{{Citation needed, date=May 2015

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Балканските държави и македонския въпрос, Антони Гиза (превод от полски - Димитър Димитров, Македонски Научен Институт София, 2001)
Bulgarian revolutionary organisations Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization 1920s in Bulgaria 1930s in Bulgaria Political history of Bulgaria Modern history of Macedonia (region) Yugoslav Macedonia Youth organizations established in 1921 Secret societies in Bulgaria Defunct organizations based in Bulgaria Vardar Macedonia (1918–1941) Bulgarian nationalism 1921 establishments in Yugoslavia Organizations disestablished in 1941

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