Background
He was born in Veles (then known by the name Köprülü) in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia) where he graduated from Bulgarian Exarchate"s school.
politician Political commissar
He was born in Veles (then known by the name Köprülü) in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia) where he graduated from Bulgarian Exarchate"s school.
Brashnarov graduated from the Bulgarian pedagogical school in Skopje. In 1914-1915 he completed a two-year higher educational course in Plovdiv.
However such Macedonian activists, who came from the IMARO and the IMRO (United) never managed to get rid of their strong pro-Bulgarian bias. In 1903 he took part in the Ilinden Uprising. In 1908 he joined the People"s Federative Party (Bulgarian Section).
In 1903-1913 Brashnarov worked as Bulgarian teacher.
He was mobilized in the Bulgarian army during the First World War and participated in the battles of Doiran. In 1919, he joined the Yugoslav Communist Party.
In 1925 in Vienna, Brashnarov was elected as one of the leaders of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United). Because of his political convictions, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
After his release he remained politically passive.
When Bulgaria annexed Vardar Banovina in 1941, he was one of the founders of the Bulgarian Action Committees Until 1943, Brashnarov worked again as a Bulgarian teacher. On 2 August 1944, the Antifascist assembly of the national liberation of Macedonia took place at the Saint Prohor Pčinjski monastery. Brashnarov served as the first speaker.
Many of the former left-wing IMRO government officials were purged from their positions, then isolated, arrested, imprisoned or executed on various (in many cases fabricated) charges including pro-Bulgarian leanings, demands for greater or complete independence of Yugoslav Macedonia, collaboration with the Cominform after the Tito-Stalin split in 1948, forming of conspirative political groups or organisations, demands for greater democracy and the like.
In 1948, being fully disappointed by the policy of the authorities, Brashnarov complained of it in letters to Joseph Stalin and to Georgi Dimitrov. He did so together with Pavel Shatev.
As a result, he was arrested in 1950 and imprisoned in Goli Otok labor camp where he died the following year.
Then he became politically active again and joined the Communist partizan"s movement fighting against the Axis Powers. From the start of the new Yugoslavia, the authorities organised frequent purges and trials of Macedonian communists and non-party people were charged with autonomist deviation.
As with many other IMARO members of the time, historians from the Republic of Macedonia consider him an ethnic Macedonian, whereas historians in Bulgaria consider him a Bulgarian.