Blagoy Simeonov Popov () (22 November 1902 – 28 December 1968) was a Bulgarian Communist activist and

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executive who was one of the co-defendants along with

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and Vasil Tanev in the Leipzig trial. After the trial, Popov moved to

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in February 1934. He studied there until 1937 when he was caught up in the Stalinist purges. He spent the next seventeen years in a

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until he was officially rehabilitated in 1954.

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* 1902 births 1968 deaths Bulgarian communists People from Pernik Province Bulgarian people imprisoned abroad Soviet rehabilitations Bulgarian expatriates in the Soviet Union Gulag detainees {{Bulgaria-bio-stub