Vanga was considered intelligent for her age. They confiscated all his property and the family fell into poverty for many years. Yugoslav authorities arrested her father because of his pro-Bulgarian activity. After the war, Strumica was ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (i.e., Yugoslavia). This left Vanga dependent on the care and charity of neighbours and close family friends for much of her youth.
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Her father was an Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization activist, conscripted into the Bulgarian Army during World War I, and her mother died soon after. In her childhood, Vangelia was an ordinary child with brown eyes and blonde hair. Another stranger's proposal was a Greek name, but since she was Bulgarian: Vangelia (from Evangelos). The stranger proposed Andromaha ( Andromache), but this was rejected for being "too Greek" during a period of anti-Hellenic sentiment within Macedonian Bulgarian society. When the baby first cried out, a midwife went into the street and asked a stranger for a name. In accordance with local tradition, the baby was not given a name until it was deemed likely to survive. She was a premature baby who suffered from health complications. Vanga was born on 3 October 1911 to Pando Surchev ( – 8 November 1940) and Paraskeva Surcheva in Strumica.
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