Career
In order to deal with the factional fighting in the Yugoslav Communist Party, the Communist International in the spring of 1928 sent more reliable cadres to Yugoslavia, including Popivanova. She first got a job working in Zagreb, then in Dalmatia, which was the center of the left faction in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. After the Congress she returned to Zagreb, but due to illness in 1929 emigrated to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics where she lived and continued to operate under the name Elena Nikolaevna Galkina.
In autumn 1929 she became a lecturer at the Communist University for National Minorities of the West (CONMW).
At the end of 1929 she participated in dealing with opponents of the line of the Communist International in the Yugoslav CONMW sector. She taught at CONMW until December 1932, when she was sent to do organizational work, first in Moscow, and in October 1933 in the Omsk area.
From there, in 1935 she was sent to Chervishevo in the Tyumenskaya area. In 1937, at the height of Stalin"s purges she was excluded from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and then arrested.
In 1939 she was cleared and settled in Tyumen Oblast.
There she worked as a teacher of history at the School of Pedagogy. She was later readmitted to the party. She died in 1954. A November 28, 1963, decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, she along with her father Stefan was politically rehabilitated and registered as Macedonian.
This information was taken from a questionnaire that she filled out in 1932 when seeking papers from the Soviet Union, where in the "nationality" section she wrote - Macedonian.
A primary school in Kocani is named "Malina Popivanova".
