News of the surrender was dismissed as Serbian propaganda.
In early 1888, the group, consisting of 19 people, including other future IMRO-revolutionaries was attracted by the Serbian propaganda.
Adzhalarski also took several successful actions against the armed Serbian propaganda.
To sum up the Serbian propaganda attempted to inspire the Macedonians with a separate ethnic identity to diminish the Bulgarian influence.
At this position, he supported the Bulgarian education in these regions and countered the Serbian propaganda.
Ivan Naumov had battles not only with the Turkish military, but also with the Serbian armed propaganda.
Now, he is accused of spreading the sort of Serbian nationalist propaganda that fueled a decade of Balkan wars.
Later the society's fellows constituted the backbone of the Serbian armed propaganda in Macedonia.
At that period Serbian propaganda began to promote its variant of "Macedonism" and to recruit young people in order to "Serbianize" them.
On the eve of the war, Serbian propaganda implemented a strong anti-Albanian campaign.