Mircea Donev Atsev ( Serb. and maked. Mircea Donev Atsev ; September 26, 1915 , Oreovac - January 4, 1943 , Skopje ) - Yugoslav Macedonian partisan, student of the University of Belgrade , People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Brother of Vera Atseva , People’s heroine of Yugoslavia.
| Mircea Donev Atsev | ||
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| Maced. and Serb. Mircea Donev Atsev | ||
 Postcard and commemorative stamp with the image of Mirce Acev | ||
| Date of Birth | September 26, 1915 | |
| Place of Birth | Oreovac , Kingdom of Serbia | |
| Date of death | January 4, 1943 (aged 27) | |
| Place of death | Skopje , Third Bulgarian Kingdom | |
| Affiliation |  Yugoslavia | |
| Years of service | 1941-1943 | |
| Rank | guerrilla troops | |
| Commanded | guerrilla units Pokryiny | |
| Battles / wars | The People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia | |
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Biography
Born on October 20, 1915 in the village of Oreovac near Prilep . He came from a noble family of the Atsevs, who participated in numerous uprisings against the Turkish yoke and the Russian-Turkish wars in the Balkans. The name was given in honor of the leader of one of the rebel companies that participated in the Ilinden rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. Mircea also had a sister, Vera, who participated with him in the People's Liberation War.
He graduated from school in Oreovets, then studied at the gymnasium in Prilep, but was forced to drop out of school in Prilep and left for Bitola , where he graduated from the gymnasium. He entered the University of Belgrade at the Faculty of Law, where he joined the student communist organization, supervised by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He was an activist of the Vardar movement of the Macedonians in Belgrade. In Belgrade, he met Strakhil Pinjur and Kuzman Yosifovsky .
In 1939 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia . Later, he formed first a student organization in Ohrid , and then a professional party unit and the Ohrid City Committee. From August 1940 to April 1941, the Ohrid branch was in an illegal position, based first in Belgrade and then in Skopje. In parallel, Mirce was a member of the technical committee of the Pokrainsky district committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia.
At the beginning of the war, Atsev was hiding in Prilep, where he was preparing an anti-German uprising. Since July 1941, by order of the leadership of the Communist Party, he was hiding in Krushevo. In October 1941, he became a member of the Pokrainsky district committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia, and from the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1942 he worked as an instructor in Bitola. Since mid-1942 he took the post of secretary of the district committee.
Together with Kuzman Yosifovsky, he organized the Macedonian partisan detachments. In September 1942, Mircea and Strahil Pinjur even met with the partisans of Veles and Prilep. However, on December 19, 1942 in Veles, Mircea suddenly fell into the hands of the Bulgarian pro-Nazi police. After long torture and torment without trial or investigation, on January 4, 1943, Atsev was brutally murdered by policemen in the Skopje prison.
By order of the leaders of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia of July 29, 1945, Mircea Atsev was posthumously awarded the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
The partisan battalion in Macedonia , as well as the Osa missile boat , the RČ-301 Mitar Atsev, bore the name Mirce Aceva.
Literature
- Folk Heroes of Ugoslavia . Mladost, Belgrade, 1975.