page_title: Traicho Kostov
section_title: List of defendants
hierarchical_section_title: Traicho Kostov / List of defendants
caption_attribution_description: Български: Гробът на Трайчо Костов на Софийските централни гробища
context_page_description: Traicho Kostov Djunev was a Bulgarian politician, former President of the Council of Ministers and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
  Traicho Kostov, at the age of 52, was sentenced to death by the Bulgarian Supreme Court. He was tried together with ten others in Sofia from 7 December till 14 December 1949. Two days later he was executed. Kostov was the leading figure of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
  On 31 March 1949 Kostov was dismissed from his post of acting President of the Council of Ministers and President of the Economic-Financial Committee of the Council of Ministers. Fifteen days later he was appointed Director of the Bulgarian National Library in Sofia. At a plenum of the Central Committee held on 11 and 12 June 1949, Vasil Kolarov delivered an indictment of Kostov's anti-Party activity.
  Kostov was accused of tolerating and spreading anti-Soviet sentiment in the Party because of his nationalistic deviation, of using anti-Party methods in the Party and Government leadership and trying to kindle a fractional struggle in the Party, of attempting to cause mistrust in the Communist Party and the Party leader, Georgi Dimitrov.
context_section_description: Traicho Kostov Djunev (1897), President of the Council of Ministers, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (executed)
  Ivan Stefanov Hadzhimateev (1899), Minister of Finance (life imprisonment)
  Nikola Pavlov Kolev (1906), Deputy Minister of Construction (life imprisonment)
  Nikola Nachev Petkov (1905), Assistant President of the State Committee for Economic and Financial Affairs (life imprisonment)
  Boris Andonov Hristov (1912), commercial representative in the USSR (15 years)
  Tsonyu Stefanov Tsonchev (1898), Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (15 years)
  Ivan Slavov Gevrenov (1884), Director of the United Rubber Industry (life imprisonment)
  Ivan Georgiev Tutev (1902), Director of the Department of Foreign Trade (life imprisonment)
  Blagoi Ivanov Hadzhipanzov (1911), counselor of the Yugoslav Embassy (15 years)
  Vasil Atanassov Ivanovsky (1906), instructor at the Department of Agitation and Propaganda (12 years)
  Iliya Ivanov Bayaltsaliev (1911), political leader at the United Construction Industry (10 years)
caption: Traycho Kostov's Grave in Sofia Central Cemetery
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