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Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov, was a Bulgarian communist politician and revolutionary who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 to 1949, and the first leader of the Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. From 1935 to 1943, he was the General Secretary of the Communist International.
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Born 18 June 1882 · Died 2 July 1949 · Q155074
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It is very important to let Chinese comrades to have at least half of the sum as soon as possible, we believe it is necessary to deliver the fund using illegal methods by planes through Mongolia. Dimitrov Diaries On the topic of supplying weapons to the Eighth Route Army, this needs the decision from the USSR; it is of the USSR
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1947–1949).
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“It is very important to let Chinese comrades to have at least half of the sum as soon as possible, we believe it is necessary to deliver the fund using illegal methods by planes through Mongolia. Dimitrov Diaries On the topic of supplying weapons to the Eighth Route Army, this needs the decision from the USSR; it is of the USSR”
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Restored the street's name to Danziger Straße, and the U-Bahn station was renamed Eberswalder Straße
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Following the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, this boulevard was renamed in honor of the former Romanian King Ferdinand I (Bulevardul Ferdinand)
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The song Mavra Korakia along with 20 songs of album "Antartika" (The Guerilla [Songs]) were published by Notis Mavroudis and Petros Pandis, as part of the return of KKE in Greece during the Metapolitefsi
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Replaced by a full-length statue in 1983, which was then relocated to the eponymous street a year later
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To Dimitrovgrad (Димитровград) to honor the late Bulgarian leader, despite the Tito-Stalin split
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Renamed Dimitroffstraße (Dimitrov Street) by the Communist East German regime
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Died 1949-07-02.
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Gave the Bulgarian Government an eagerly-awaited opportunity of denouncing Yugoslav policy in Macedonia as expansionistic, and of revising its policy on the Macedonian question
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1947–1949).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1946–1947).
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Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile and was elected prime minister of the newly founded People's Republic of Bulgaria
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Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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He and his wife adopted another child, Boiko Dimitrov, born 1941.
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Stalin chose Dimitrov to head the international organization
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Was appointed Secretary General of the World Committee Against War and Fascism, replacing Willi Münzenberg
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Dimitrov led a failed communist uprising against the government of Aleksandar Tsankov and was subsequently forced into exile
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But then travelled again to Moscow and was elected in December 1922 to the Executive Bureau of Profintern, the communist trade union international
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Went underground and made two failed attempts to visit Russia, finally reaching Moscow in February 1921
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This party became the Bulgarian Communist Party when it affiliated with Bolshevism and the Comintern
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Helped found the Bulgarian Communist Party
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Voted against awarding new war credits and denounced Bulgarian nationalism, for which he received short prison sentences
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Was elected to the Bulgarian Parliament
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Spent a month in prison for libeling an official of the rival Free Federation of Trade Unions, whom he accused of strike-breaking
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Nikola was arrested and exiled to Siberia where he died in 1916
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Dimitrov married his first wife, Serbian emigrant milliner, writer and socialist Ljubica Ivošević, with whom he lived until her death in 1933
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Was secretary of the Sofia branch of the printers' union
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Born 1882-06-18.
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