Strašo Pindžur
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Strahil Pindžurov or better known by his partisan
Partisan (military)
A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity...

 name Strašo Pindžur (Страшо Пинџур) was born in 1915, in the village of Vataša, Kavadarci
Kavadarci
Kavadarci is a town located in the Tikveš region of the Republic of Macedonia. Situated in the heart of Macedonia’s wine country, it is home to the largest winery in south-eastern Europe, named after the Tikveš plain. The town of Kavadarci is the seat of Kavadarci Municipality...

.. As a war orphan, he was a state pupil in Kraguevac, where in secondary school he came in contact with the progressive labor movement. Strašo Pindžur studied at the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
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's Law School
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law
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, and was a secretary of the illegal student association "Vardar". He was a close collaborator, and a friend of the national hero Ivo Lola Ribar
Ivo Lola Ribar
Ivan "Ivo Lola" Ribar , was a Yugoslav communist politician of Croatian descent, who achieved National Hero status thanks to his contributions in the fight against fascism...

 and participated in a number of demonstrations of the party.

He tried to be a volunteer in the Spanish civil war
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

, but did not succeed. Because of his revolutionary activism Pindžurov was arrested by the Serbian authorities. After the occupation of Macedonia he clashed with the secretary of the Regional Committee of the CPY for Macedonia, Metodi Shatorov Sharlo. Straso became a member of the first Main headquarters of the partisan detachments of Macedonia and new established Regional Committee in December 1942, but the same year he fell into the hands of the Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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n police. During the interrogation, Strašo Pindžur kept silent and was shot in January 1943.
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