Vlado Chernozemski

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Vlado Chernozemski (Bulgarian: Владо Черноземски; born Velichko Dimitrov Kerin (Bulgarian: Величко Димитров Керин); October 19, 1897 – October 9, 1934) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and assassin of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He is also known as "Vlado the Chauffeur". He killed two notable Bulgarian politicians, communist Dimo Hadzhidimov, and IMRO member Naum Tomalevski. Chernozemski trained a group of three Ustaše to assassinate Alexander of Yugoslavia, but eventually assassinated Alexander himself in 1934 in Marseille, and was killed afterwards. French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou was also killed by a stray bullet fired by French police during the scuffle following the attack. Croat and Macedonian Bulgarian circles celebrated his act. For murdering King Alexander I, Chernozemski was posthumously declared the most dangerous terrorist in Europe. Chernozemski is considered a hero in Bulgaria. The official historiography in North Macedonia regards him as a controversial...

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