Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper. He opposed the countrys participation in World War I and its support for the Central Powers. In a famous incident during 1914 Stamboliyskis patriotism was challenged when members of the Bulgarian parliament questioned whether he was Bulgarian or not, to which he shouted in response I am neither a Bulgarian nor a Serb, I am a South Slav . This statement relates to his belief in a Balkan Federation which would unite the region and supersede many of the national identities which existed at the time. He was courtmartialed and sentenced to life in prison in 1915.

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