2007: G. Dimitrov’s 125^th Anniversary

BORN: June 18, 1882 (South West Bulgaria) Starts work as a printer at age 12.

1901: Secretary of the trade union organization of the printers in Sofia.

1902: Joins the Bulgarian Workers’ Social Democratic Party, organized by Dimitar Blagoev, founder of the 1^st Workers’ Marxist Group and Party in Russia, where he studied at the University of St. Petersburg. He joined Lenin’s Meeting of the 8^th Congress of the Second International in Copenhagen in 1910.

1909: Elected as member of the CC of the Party.

1919: The party is organized as the Bulgarian Communist Party.

1921: He meets Lenin during the Third Congress of the Communist International.

1923: Together with Vasil Kolarov, former Secretary General of the Comintern he leads the September Revolt against the fascist coup d’etat. After its defeat he emigrated abroad and worked for the Comintern in Europe.

1933: He wins a marvelous moral victory over Nazism during the provocative Leipzig trial of the arson of the German Reichstag.

1935-1943: Secretary General of the Comintern Executive.

1945: Returns to Bulgaria on November 6, 1945 until his death on July 2, 1949 is the Prime Minister of the Fatherland Government of Bulgaria and leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Many of Dimitrov’s thoughts and ideas are valid now, under the conditions of the temporary restoration of capitalism, and the reactionary upheaval in many parts of the world.

"For all of us nowadays the friendship with the USSR is so vital as the sun and the air are for any living creature in the world!"