ЛОКАЛЕН АКТИВИЗАМ, УНИВЕРЗАЛНИ ИДЕИ / LOCAL ACTIVISM, UNIVERSAL AIMS

Abstract

This paper brings insufficiently known testimonies about the revolutionary, social-
cultural and humanitarian activities of Aco Šopov, from high school to the first partisan
environments. The poet is profiled among classmates and comrades, participants in the
earliest preparation for resistance and struggle for human rights and national freedom,
amid the hostile fascist, Bulgarian and Albanian occupation of Macedonia. The youth
ideological and literary engagement of Šopov is mapped in the context of illegal and
conspiratorial actions, together with Vita Pop Jordanova, within the framework of
organizational, informative and later partisan activity in Štip, in the partisan detachments of
the mountains of Plachkovica and Skopska Crna Gora. The socio-cultural and revolutionary
engagement of Aco Šopov is more concretely illustrated through the activities of his
closest friend, classmate, comrade-in-arms and inspiration for Kara Dak’s battle song, Vita
Pop Yordanova, and through memories of her mother Sofia Pop Yordanova KoŠevaliska
from Štip. Segments about the operational power and personal and collective realization
of Šopov through his anti-fascist activity in the Second World War are listed in the events
related to the Macedonian political activists - youth, workers, mothers and fighters who
acted in Štip, Skopje and Kacanik. The revolutionary phenomenon until the Second World
War is contrasted with today’s digital revolution.