Stojan Kochov (25 December 1930) is an Ethnic Macedonian historian, scientist and publisher. From 1946 to 1949 he fought as 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...

 in Democratic Army of Greece

Democratic Army of Greece

This article is based on a translation of an article from the Greek Wikipedia.The Democratic Army of Greece , often simply abbreviated to its initials DSE , was the army founded by the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War, 1946–1949...

 during Greek Civil War

Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Greek Communist Party , backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania...

 and also participated in the ethnic Macedonian organizations in northern Greece (NOF). After the defeat of the communists in the Civil War, Kochov fled to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 where he lived and studied from 1950 to 1957. In 1957 he emigrated to SR Macedonia. Stojan Kochov is one of the most active researchers of the participation of the ethnic Macedonians in the Greek Civil War and has published many books related to the subject.

Some of Stojan Kochov's most famous works:

• Идеолошкиот активизам над Македонците под Грција
• Ѓорѓи Пејков - Македонскиот воин низ историјата на ДАГ (1945–1949)
• Мртвото лице на војната
• Средба
• Една мртва војска