As an accomplished businessman, he slowly expanded his business from a small shop to a medium size manufacture in the center of Kumanovo. As an affluent person he invested his profit in real estate, owning several buildings in the city. But during the Second World War, as a declared opponent of the new Bulgarian occupation government in Macedonia, he was sentenced to forced labor in a quarry in Central Bulgaria. After the liberation of Macedonia, he returned back to Kumanovo, reunited with his family, and he reestablished his business. But to no avail…the new communist authorities following their governing philosophy nationalized his private property, closing his business and acquiring his possessions. He never recuperated from this loss because it hurt his personal dignity and identity as a breadwinner for his family. Shortly after the nationalization of his business he died as a result of a bad illness.

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Global History

• Emperor Boris the III of Bulgaria – led his country to join the fascist Axis. As an ally of Hitler and Mussolini, his Bulgaria joined the invasion on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Greece expanding the Bulgarian territory into present day Macedonia and the region of Macedonia in Greece.  In 1934, Bulgarian authorities summoned the entire Jewish population from the occupied territories sending them in cattle train cars to the extermination camp of Treblinka (very few of them survived).

• Josip Broz Tito – leader of the Yugoslav communists and the Yugoslav partisan resistance against Nazi Germany and its allies. After the Second World War he reestablished the country of Yugoslavia as a socialist federation of six federal republics. The dark side of his rule were the purges of the non-communist politicians, other opposition groups and the forced nationalization of the agriculture and industry in former Yugoslavia.