Blagoi Popov
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Blagoy Popov (1902 – 1968), one of the co-defendants along with Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Tanev in the Leipzig trial
. After the trial, he moved to Moscow in February 1934. Popov studied there until 1937 when he was caught up in the Stalinist purges. He would spent the next seventeen years in a Soviet Gulag until he was officially rehabilitated in 1954.
Leipzig Trial
The Leipzig Trial, also known as the Reichstag Fire Trial, took place from 21 September to 23 December 1933. It involved Ernst Torgler , Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov and Marinus van der Lubbe...
. After the trial, he moved to Moscow in February 1934. Popov studied there until 1937 when he was caught up in the Stalinist purges. He would spent the next seventeen years in a Soviet Gulag until he was officially rehabilitated in 1954.