Traycho Kostov Dzhunev (Bulgarian: Трайчо Костов Джунев; 17 June 1897 – 16 December 1949) was a Bulgarian politician. He was a leading figure of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Kostov, as the President of the Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was sentenced to death by the Bulgarian Supreme Court. He was tried together with ten others in Sofia, from 7 December until 14 December 1949. Two days later, he was executed.
Traycho Kostov Dzhunev (Bulgarian: Трайчо Костов Джунев; 17 June 1897 – 16 December 1949) was a Bulgarian politician. He was a leading figure of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Kostov, as the President of the Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was sentenced to death by the Bulgarian Supreme Court. He was tried together with ten others in Sofia, from 7 December until 14 December 1949. Two days later, he was executed.
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Dismissal, trial and execution On 31 March 1949 Kostov was dismissed from his post of acting President of the Council of Ministers and President of the Economic-Financial Committee of the Council of Ministers. Fifteen days later he was appointed Director of the Bulgarian National Library in Sofia. At a plenum of the Central Committee held on 11 and 12 June 1949, Vasil Kolarov delivered an indictment of Kostov's anti-Party activity. Kostov was accused of tolerating and spreading anti-Soviet sentiment in the Party because of his nationalistic deviation, of using anti-Party methods in the Party and Government leadership and trying to kindle a factional struggle in the Party, of attempting to cause mistrust in the Communist Party and the Party leader, Georgi Dimitrov. Kostov was dismissed from the Central Committee, expelled from the Party and deprived of his seat in the National Assembly. He was arrested on 20 June 1949. In December 1949, together with Traicho Kostov, 10 other prominent Communists were tried. Kostov was sentenced to death on the grounds that he had organized the headquarters of an underground organization aiming to overthrow the government by violence, had committed actions aiming at the worsening of the friendly relations between Bulgaria…
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Reassessment The start of open de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union led to a reassessment of the Kostovite trials. On 11 April 1956, at a Sofia City Communist Party meeting it was stated that: a harmful consequence of the personality cult had been the infringement of the laws, as a result of which innocent people were unjustly accused and sentenced. The accusations contained in the indictment and in other materials presented at the Traicho Kostov trial and at other trials that followed, in which those sentenced were unjustly accused of espionage, sabotage and criminal relations with Yugoslav state organisations and leaders, were dismissed as being fabricated and not true. All those detained because of these trials had been set free. A commission of the Central Committee had been entrusted with checking the materials on the trials, so that all innocently accused would be rehabilitated. A decision of the Central Committee, published on 19 September 1956, approved the statements and the conclusions of the commission which had reviewed the Kostov trial and the trials connected with it. It also legally rehabilitated and restored party membership to all those convicted in the trials. Kostov himself was posthumously rehabilitated and readmitted to the party.…
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List of defendants
Traicho Kostov Djunev (1897), President of the Council of Ministers, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (executed)
Ivan Stefanov Hadzhimateev (1899), Minister of Finance (life imprisonment)
Nikola Pavlov Kolev (1906), Deputy Minister of Construction (life imprisonment)
Nikola Nachev Petkov (1905), Assistant President of the State Committee for Economic and Financial Affairs (life imprisonment)
Boris Andonov Hristov (1912), commercial representative in the USSR (15 years)
Tsonyu Stefanov Tsonchev (1898), Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (15 years)
Ivan Slavov Gevrenov (1884), Director of the United Rubber Industry (life imprisonment)
Ivan Georgiev Tutev (1902), Director of the Department of Foreign Trade (life imprisonment)
Blagoi Ivanov Hadzhipanzov (1911), counselor of the Yugoslav Embassy (15 years)
Vasil Atanassov Ivanovski (1906), instructor at the Department of Agitation and Propaganda (12 years)
Iliya Ivanov Bayaltsaliev (1911), political leader at the United Construction Industry (10 years)
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Bibliography
The Trial of Traicho Kostov and his Group, edited by Anton Koev, Sofia 1949
Eastern Europe Since 1945, 3rd Edition, G. and N. Swain, Palgrave Macmillan
