 Their differences also extended to the national character of the Macedonians – whereas Dimitrov considered them to be an national offshoot of the Bulgarians, Tito regarded them as an independent nation which had nothing to do with the Bulgarians.Thus the initial tolerance for the Macedonization of Bulgarian Macedonia gradually grew into outright alarm.As result gradual change of that policy came in Bulgaria after the Tito-Stalin split in the same year.