Vlado Makelarski ( mk, Владо Макеларски; 1919–1993) was a
Macedonian Partisan in
World War II.
Life
Makelarski was born in the village of
Maqellarë
Maqellarë ( mk, Макелари/''Makelari'' or Макеларе/''Makelare'') is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dib ...
,
Albania in 1919 and completed schooling in nearby
Debar,
Yugoslavia, where he also worked as a waiter. In 1936, he moved with his parents to
Skopje where, with his brother's influence, he joined the
League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia , SKOJ mk, Сојуз на комунистичката младина на Југославија, СКМЈ sl, Zveza komunistične mladine Jugoslavije, ZKMJ
, colorcode = red
, founded = 1919
, dissolved = 1948
, succeeded by = League of S ...
. His and his brother's apartment was used as a place for illegal communist meetings. In 1943, the apartment was raided with several arrested, while Makelarski was sentenced to death in absentia by the
occupying Bulgarian authorities.
Following the war, he became director of the ceramics factory "Yug" in Skopje. After the
Tito-Stalin split, Makelarski took the side of the
Comintern
The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet Union, Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to ...
and was subsequently jailed at
Goli Otok.
Makelarski died on 29 January 1993. He was a recipient of the
Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941
The Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 ( sh, Partizanska Spomenica 1941 / Партизанска Споменица 1941, sl, Partizanska spomenica 1941) is a commemorative Yugoslav medal instituted on 14 September 1944, awarded to tho ...
.
References
1919 births
1993 deaths
Yugoslav Partisans members
Albanian people of Macedonian descent
People from Dibër (municipality)
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