Bane Andreev

Bane Andreеv (; 12 August 1905 – 31 October 1980), also known under the pseudonym Ronkata, was a communist official and politician in Yugoslav Macedonia. He was a leader of the Regional Committee of Communists in Macedonia during World War II. After the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, he was removed from all of his positions as a Cominformist.

Life Bane Andreev was born in Veles on 12 August 1905. He became a member of the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1922 and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1923. In 1924, he became a member of the Veles committee of SKOJ. He later became a member of the Regional Committee of Communists in Macedonia and in 1941 went along with the committee's secretary Metodi Shatorov's decision to place the committee under the authority of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). A dispute ensued between KPJ and BCP. After the Communist International confirmed KPJ's authority in Macedonia, Andreev was included in the new regional committee (consisting of Vera Aceva, Mara Naceva and others), Andreev cooperated with Balgaranov and took orders from BCP. At KPJ's Fifth Congress in 1948, he was not selected in KPJ's CC, while all the six Macedonians who were selected were pro-Tito. In the 1940s, he was described as "the oldest living Communist in Macedonia who retained his party position until the Fifth Congress." Andreev only had the status of a CC candidate along with four other Macedonians, all of whom had joined the KPJ only in 1940. At the First Congress of KPM in late December 1948, Andreev was elected to the CC, but not to the Politburo. During the Informbiro period then, rumors of his implicit Cominformism soon followed. He denied them in the newspaper Borba on 16 June 1949. Despite the denial, he soon developed contacts with the Cominformists.