Talk:Dimitrovgrad, Serbia
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[edit] Origins of Dimitrovgrad
Dimitrovgrad was named after Georgi Dimitrov - the "Lion of Leptzig". He became Bulgarian president after the Communist takeover in 1945. Dimitrov was a fervent Communist. Following Marxist ideas he was also a fanatical internationalist. Together with Stalin and Tito he was behind the project for creating Macedonian nation. He went so far in his internationalist endeavours that Serbs hailed him as a hero and named Tsaribrod Dimitrovgrad, in his honour. Whereas there were no immediate consequences for carving out a separate nation out of the Bulgarian ethnos, his internationalist persuits costed him his life. Believing that the Balkans should be turned into a Balkan Federation, he was summoned to Moscow and poisoned by Stalin. His internationalist Balkan idea explains to a great extent his actions of fragmenting a nation for a greater good - a strong federal Balkan state. United under common Slavic cultural ties, a a federation of united Slavs including Yugoslavia and Bulgaria could have been an immense political and economic accomplishment.
