Valko Velyov Chervenkov

In memoriam

Bulgarian Statesman. He served as the 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria from January 23, 1950 to April 18, 1956. He joined the Bulgarian Workers' Party in 1919 and was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League from 1920 to 1925. In 1923, he took part in an unsuccessful communist uprising and two years later, fled to Russia. While in Moscow, he studied at the Marx-Lenin School and later served as director of the school. In 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was appointed director of the Khristo Botev radio station, which broadcast to Bulgaria. In September of 1944 Georgi Dimitrov, head of the Comintern and his brother-in-law, sent him to Bulgaria, where he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). In 1949, he became secretary-general of the party and a year later, was named premier. His position was seriously weakened after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 and became precarious with Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation in 1956 of the Stalin personality cult. On April 17, 1956, he was replaced as premier, but for five years he remained in office as one of the deputy premiers. In 1962 he was expelled from the Communist Party, but he was silently rehabilitated seven years later.

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