Immediately after the Pact, Georgi Dimitrov, chief of the Comintern, sent a ciphered message to Browder explaining that the CPUSA’s line supporting the Pact was not fully correct because while it broke with President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of supporting Britain, France, and Lend-Lease aid, it failed to take the additional step of breaking with FDR’s domestic policies as well.
There are five cities named after Georgi Dimitrov in the world in Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Armenia.
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A massive painted statue of Dimitrov survives in the centre of Place Bulgarie in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, two decades after the country abandoned Marxism-Leninism and the colossal statue of Vladimir Lenin was removed from Place Lenine.
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Hays attended the Reichstag trial in Berlin on behalf of Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist accused by the Nazis in 1933 of burning the Reichstag.
A notable native is Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949), whose parents were refugees from the Pirin region, which was left under Ottoman rule until the Balkan Wars.