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Highest honors went to Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Places & Things | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...railway stations of Shumen and Mirkovo, Panporovo summer resort and Belmeken mountain were renamed for Kolarov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Places & Things | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Died. Vasil Kolarov, 72, bald, bull-necked old Comintern handyman who in July 1949 succeeded Georgi Dimitrov as Premier of Bulgaria; after long illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...chancelleries and Eastern Europe's cafes were once more abuzz with such speculation. The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party had announced that Premier Georgi Dimitrov, 66, was "on leave," receiving medical treatment in the U.S.S.R. In his absence, hippo-jawed Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Vassil Kolarov would look after the business of running Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Political Illness? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Bulgaria's parliament last week, Foreign Minister Vassil Kolarov introduced a bill to close down religious organizations with "foreign ties." The bill described the Soviet-controlled Orthodox Church as "the People's Democratic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: He Was a Great Man | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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