Anton Tanev Yugov (28 August 1904 - 6 July 1991) was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party

Bulgarian Communist Party

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 served as Prime Minister of the country from 1956 to 1962. Anton Tanev (Dontcho) Yugov is Honorary Citizen of Tirana

Tirana

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, Albania

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Yugov was born to a Bulgarian

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 family in Rugunovets, Ottoman

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 Macedonia

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 (today Polykastro

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, Greece

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); after World War I

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, his family moved to Plovdiv

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. Before becoming prime minister, Yugov served as interior minister

Interior minister

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 from 1944 to 1949, during the beginning stages of the communist government. Although a long standing member of the Party, Yugov was heavily involved in the De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization

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 that came about in 1956 on the back of Nikita Khrushchev's

Nikita Khrushchev

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 reforms in the Soviet Union

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. As a result of this, Yugov was appointed Prime Minister on 17 April 1956. He remained in the job for 6 years until overall leader Todor Zhivkov

Todor Zhivkov

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 also assumed this role. Yugov, who had criticised Zhivkov for allowing the Great Leap Forward

Great Leap Forward

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 to influence economic policy, was removed as a potential rival. He was rehabilitated on the 1990 BKP party congress. http://countrystudies.us/bulgaria/20.htm.