Christo Michajłow
Monument to Christo Mikhailov in Montana
Christo Mikhail Popov (Bulgarian Христо Михайлов Попов, born April 18, 1892 in Widyń, died February 8, 1944 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian Communist activist.
He worked as a teacher during the Second Balkan War, incarnated in the Bulgarian army, graduating in 1914 as Reserve Officer. He participated in the First World War, was taken prisoner and released in 1920. Since 1918 he was a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, and since 1921 the Bulgarian Communist Party (BPK). An active participant in the September 1923 uprising, he commanded a communist detachment during an assault on Ferdinand. After the fall of the insurrection, he escaped to Yugoslavia, was sentenced to death in absentia. In 1924 he illegally returned to Poland and attempted to organize a new rebellion against the authorities in Widyn and Plovdiv. In April 1925 arrested and sentenced to death, however, the sentence was changed to life imprisonment. In 1937 he escaped from prison and resumed his activities in the Communist Party in Sofia, becoming a member of the Central Committee of the BPK. He graduated from law faculty at the University of Sofia. During World War II he was a participant in the resistance movement for which he was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Radojnow died at the head of the Communist Party Central Committee, and after Emil Markov's death he became the Bulgarian Army's Bulgarian Army Insurgent. He was responsible for many partisan activities in Bulgaria. In July 1942, he was again sentenced to death in February 1944, severely wounded in a shootings with the police, captured and killed.
To commemorate the leader of the communist guerrilla after the war, Ferdinand (now Montana) was renamed "Mikhailovgrad"; There was also a statue of Christo Mikhailov. Bibliography
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