Vera Aceva - Dosta (November 24, 1919 in Oreovec (

Prilep Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 and is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko. Name The name of Prilep appear ...

) – November 10, 2006 in

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) was a Macedonian

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, participant in the

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and a national hero of

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Between the two world wars

Facing a difficult financial situation, Aceva had to cease her education after her second year of gymnasium and to find work, eventually finding employment in the tobacco industry. Aceva joined the labor movement when she was 16 years old, and became a member of the

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in the early 1940. In September of the same year, at the provincial conference she was elected as a member of the Regional Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Macedonia. From September 1940 to November 1941 she was the Secretary of the Local Committee in

World War II in Yugoslavia

Aceva was one of the first organizers of the Prilep Partisan Detachment. In early 1942 she worked in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in

, then as a party instructor in

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and

Štip Štip ( mk, Штип ) is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of North Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities. As of the 2002 census, the city ...

. In August 1943 she became the commissioner of the Shar detachment, and when on 11 November 1943 the First Macedonian-Kosovo Brigade was formed, Aceva was elected deputy political commissar. She was at this position until January 1944 when she became the political secretary of the Third and Fourth District Committee of the

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. In August 1944 she participated in the first session of the

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, at which she was selected in its

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After liberation

After liberation Aceva performed at more of managerial positions. In 1948 she was the

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. At the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in July 1948 she was elected to the Central Committee of the

. In March 1949, during the reconstruction of the

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government she was elected as

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. She was then a member of the Federal Executive Council, Member of Parliament in more of the convocations of the

and

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. In 1960 Aceva came into conflict with the then-Secretary of the Communist Party of Macedonia

Lazar Koliševski Lazar Koliševski ( mk, Лазар Колишевски ; 12 February 1914 – 6 July 2000) was a Yugoslav communist political leader in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and briefly in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was clos ...

, accusing him of making decisions together with Vidoe Smilevski - Bato outside of the Executive Committee of the

. At the meeting on 18 October 1960 Aleksandar Rankovic came from

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, and stood on the side of Koliševski. Aceva was forced to retreat and moved to work in Belgrade.Крсте Црвенковски, Мирче Томовски „Заробена вистина“, „Култура“, Скопје, 2003, 149-151 стр. In 1991 she published the book ''Letter to Svetozar Vukmanovik - Tempo''.

References

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