Vergil Dimov Vergilov ( November 7, 1901 , the village of Ayazlar (now Svetlen ) - December 1, 1979 , Sofia ) - Bulgarian politician, activist of the Bulgarian Agricultural Peoples Union (BZNS) .
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Biography
Born in a family of refugees from Belomorskaya Trakiya. He was expelled from the gymnasium in Shumen , graduated from the gymnasium in Popovo, and then entered the University of Sofia. In 1920 he joined the BZNS, in 1923 - 1924 - Secretary of the Agricultural Youth Union and editor of the newspaper "Mladezhko Zemedelsko Zname". Due to political persecution by the government, Alexander Tsankov was forced to emigrate to Yugoslavia , and then to Czechoslovakia , where he graduated from the Higher Cooperative School in Prague in 1926 . In the same year, after the announcement of the amnesty, he returned to Bulgaria, in 1929 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Sofia University . He was engaged in law practice, he was a prominent functionary of the VBRCH-1 BZNS - the right wing of the party: in 1926-1931 he was the main organizer, in 1931-1932 - secretary.
In 1931 he was elected to the 23rd ordinary People’s Assembly. From September 7, 1932 to May 19, 1934 - Minister of Public Works, Roads and Accomplishment in the Government of Nikola Mushanov . After the coup on May 19, 1934, which overthrew the Mushanov government and led to an official ban on political parties, Dimov became one of the prominent opposition figures who advocated the restoration of the Tarnovo constitution. He was an adversary of the Patriotic Front, in which the Communists played a significant role. In August 1944, the Manifesto of 13 opposition figures who supported the withdrawal of Bulgaria from World War II signed. From September 2 to September 9, 1944 he was Minister of the Interior and Public Health and the head of the Ministry of Railways, Post and Telegraphs in the government of Konstantin Muraviev .
After the coup on September 9, 1944 he was arrested. In 1945, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the so-called People’s Court - as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was responsible for the clashes between communist demonstrators who wanted to overthrow the government and the police in Sofia on September 6 and 7, 1944 (in 1996, the sentence was quashed by the Supreme Court) . He was released in 1955 , accepting a proposal for political cooperation with the communist authorities. In 1957, he became a member of the Supreme Council of the BZNS (the party officially operating in Bulgaria, which recognized the primacy of the Communists). The author of memoirs about his stay in custody, published in 1990 .
Proceedings
- Native songs ( 1921 ).
- The meaning and objectives of urban organizations BZNS ( 1928 ).
- Agricultural celebrations in Golden Prague (1928).
Bibliography
- Tashev, Tasho. Ministrate to Bulgaria 1879-1999. Sofia, 1999.