Anton Yugov
| Anton Yugov Антон Югов |
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| 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria | |
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In office 17 April 1956 – 19 November 1962 |
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| Preceded by | Valko Chervenkov |
| Succeeded by | Todor Zhivkov |
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| Born | 28 August 1904 Rugunovec, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 July 1991 (aged 86) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Political party | Bulgarian Communist Party |
Anton Tanev (Dontcho) Yugov (Bulgarian: Антон Танев Югов) (28 August 1904 – 6 July 1991) was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) served as Prime Minister of the country from 1956 to 1962. Anton Tanev (Dontcho) Yugov is Honorary Citizen of Tirana, Albania.
Yugov was born to a Bulgarian family in Rugunovets, Ottoman Macedonia (today Polykastro, Greece); after World War I, his family moved to Plovdiv.
Yugov was a prominent figure in the BCP during the Second World War and attempted to reach a settlement with Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia regarding co-operation between both countries' communists. This 1941 initiative was aborted however as Tito would not accept the sacrifice of Macedonia, something upon which Yugov insisted. The two would revisit the issue in 1945 when they discussed the possibility of a Bulgarian-Yugoslav confederation to solve the issue although the United States and United Kingdom raised such objections to the plan that Joseph Stalin personally intervened to tell the two leaders to abandon the idea.
He served as Minister of the Interior from 1944 to 1949. As Interior Minister he oversaw a purge of the army of members of Zveno and other fascist sympathisers that became noted for its brutality. Linked to Traycho Kostov, he fell with him in 1949 and, whilst Yugov was not to follow his ally to the gallows, he was nonetheless rebuked by new Prime Minister Valko Chervenkov for supposedly allowing Kostov's conspiracies to go unchecked.
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