Nikola Petkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bulgarian politician
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Place of Birth: Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
About Nikola Petkov
- Nikola Dimitrov Petkov (Bulgarian: ?????? ???????? ??????; July 8, 1893 – September 23, 1947) was a Bulgarian politician, one of the leaders of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (usually abbreviated as BZNS).
- He entered politics in the early 1930s.
- Like many other peasant party leaders in Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria in 1945–1947, Petkov was tried and executed soon after postwar Soviet control was established in his country.
- He was a son of the politician Dimitar Petkov.
- His brother Petko Petkov was shot dead by an unknown assassin in 1924.
- Nikola Petkov was among the founders of the Fatherland Front (FF) in 1943 and participated in the establishment of the new government before becoming its target.
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