Monday, Mar. 27, 1950
Places & Things
The men who run Bulgaria were busily engaged in a favorite Communist pastime last week. They were renaming places & things after the Revolution's Red saints.
Highest honors went to Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov.
The Sofia orphanage was named after Liliana Dimitrova, Communist under ground worker killed during the war.
The railway stations of Shumen and Mirkovo, Panporovo summer resort and Belmeken mountain were renamed for Kolarov.
Yumruk Peak was renamed after the 1 19th Century Bulgarian revolutionary, Christo Botev.
The state Physculturum Technicum was renamed for Soviet Marshal Vasilevsky.
Varna Gulf, Varna Lake and the Mus-Allah lakes were renamed for Stalin.
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