Blagoy Popov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Blagoy Popov

Bulgarin communist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1902

Place of Birth: Dren, Pernik Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1968

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Blagoi Popov (Bulgarian: ?????? ?????) (1902–1968) was one of the co-defendants along with Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Tanev in the Leipzig trial.
After the trial, Popov moved to Moscow in February 1934.
Popov studied there until 1937 when he was caught up in the Stalinist purges.
He would spend the next seventeen years in a Soviet Gulag until he was officially rehabilitated in 1954.