page_title: Zhan Videnov
section_title: Subtle political affairs
hierarchical_section_title: Zhan Videnov / Subtle political affairs
caption_attribution_description: Български: Движение Че Гевара на анти-протест пред Паметника на Съветската армия в София. Протестът е за запазване на паметника след предишни протести за неговото демонтиране. English: Movement Che Guevara at anti-protest at the Monument of the Soviet army in Sofia which insists for the keeping of the monument after some massive pro-removing of its protests were held.
context_page_description: Žan Vasilev Videnov, sometimes spelled in English as Jean Videnov, was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996. Currently he is a college lecturer and inspirer of Che Guevara of Plovdiv.
context_section_description: Despite the widespread corruption and swindles of his time, Videnov was commonly said to have been a personally honest man whose naivety was misused by his own associates. This assessment was supported with the argument that, unusually for Bulgaria, he apparently didn't make any personal profit from his position and indeed left politics as poor as he had entered it.
  In 2007, it was disclosed that he had collaborated with the Communist Bulgaria's secret service from 1988 to 1990 as a keeper of a secret meeting-place for agents.
caption: The Plovdiv movement Che Guevara protesting for the keeping of the Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia in 2011, later Che Guevara movement took part in the February 2013 protests
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