G. M. Dimitrov

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In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Mihov and the family name is Dimitrov.

Georgi Mihov Dimitrov (Bulgarian: Георги Михов Димитров; 15 April 1903 – 21 November 1972), known as Gemeto (Bulgarian: Гемето, lit. 'The G. M.') to distinguish him from Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, was a Bulgarian politician, a leading figure of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union during the 1930s and 1940s, and an opponent of fascism and communism alike.[1][2]

History

G. M. Dimitrov was born in the

vilayet of Edirne, today Yeniçiftlik in Tekirdağ Province, Turkey) on 15 April 1903 to a Bulgarian family. His family, along with practically all Bulgarians in Eastern Thrace, was forced to move to Bulgaria in 1913 after the Balkan Wars, and settled in the village of Doyrentsi in Lovech Province
.

In 1922, he became a member of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), a party devoted to representing the causes of the Bulgarian peasantry. During the

St Nedelya Church assault
in 1925, he was arrested again along with other opposition figures.

In 1923, he began to study

coup d'état of 1934 he was in opposition to the monarchist
regime and semi-legally headed BANU.

In 1941, G. M. Dimitrov organized a large-scale campaign against Bulgaria's growing political and military alignment with the

coup d'état of 1944, G. M. Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became the leader of BANU. Due to his anti-Fatherland Front activities he was deprived of his leadership and expelled from the party. Thanks to the intervention of the United States ambassador, Dimitrov was saved from death.[4] His fellow leader of the party Nikola Petkov was executed by the Bulgarian Communist Party after a show trial
in 1947.

In May 1945, G. M. Dimitrov left the country; two years later, he founded the Agrarian Committee or Green Front, an anti-communist union of Eastern European émigrés in the West. He also headed the Bulgarian National Committee, a strictly Bulgarian organization with similar goals. In 1951, he assisted the foundation of the first Bulgarian NATO company,[5][6] the Bulgarian Volunteer Company 4093, that consisted of 200 émigrés.

Dimitrov died in Washington, D.C., on 21 November 1972. His daughter Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser (b. 1937) is also a BANU politician. He also had a son called Aleksandar.

See also

  • List of Eastern Bloc defectors

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-89803-011-0
    – via Internet Archive.
  2. ISBN 0-521-25340-3 – via Internet Archive
    .
  3. ^ "Д-р Георги Михов Димитров". Archived from the original on 2011-08-28. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  4. ^ See, for example, Black, Cyril E. (1982). "The View from Bulgaria". In Hammond, Thomas T. (ed.). Witnesses to the Origins of the Cold War. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 76-80 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Янева, "Гемето ни вкарва в НАТО преди 52 г.".
  6. ^ "Bulgarian volunteer company in NATO (1951–1964)". Bulgaria: a loyal partner and prospective member of NATO (PDF). Institute for Regional and International Studies. pp. 373–378.

References

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