Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer, journalist, political prisoner, and member of the Bulgarian National Assembly.
Monument to Talev in Borisova gradina park, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.
Zhivkov in 1971
Todor Zhivkov and Georgi Dimitrov in a Fatherland Front congress in 1946.
Large-scale industrialisation caused many labourers to move from rural to urban areas, which required the construction of numerous pre-fabricated apartment buildings such as this one in Sofia
Zhivkov's reforms resulted in some expansion of trade with the West, as evidenced by licensed Coca-Cola production since the 1960s with a Cyrillic logo