in 1932 members of imro (united), put for the first time the issue of the recognition of a separate macedonian nation in a lecture in moscow. the question was also studied in the highest institutions of the comintern and in the autumn of 1933, dimitar vlahov arrived in moscow and took part in a number of meetings. so on january 11, 1934, the political secretariat of the comintern adopted a special resolution on the macedonian question. from 1936 to 1944, vlahov lived in the soviet union and in 1944 he went to the new yugoslavia with socialist republic of macedonia, where he worked in high state and political positions.