G. M. Dimitrov

Deceased Person

1903 – 1972

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Who was G. M. Dimitrov?

Georgi Mihov Dimitrov, known as Gemeto to distinguish him from Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, was a Bulgarian politician, a leading figure of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union in the 1930s and 1940s and an opponent of Nazism and communism alike.

G. M. Dimitrov was born in the Eastern Thracian village of Eni Chiflik by the Sea of Marmara on 15 April 1903 to a Bulgarian family. His family, along with practically all Bulgarians of 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, a proletarian party devoted to representing the causes of the Bulgarian peasantry. In 1923, he organized a peasant revolt in the Lovech region to counter the coup d'état of 1923. He was imprisoned and may have been sentenced to death had it not been for his young age. After the St Nedelya Church assault in 1925, he was arrested again along with other opposition figures.

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Born
Apr 15, 1903
Edirne
Died
Nov 28, 1972

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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