Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (June 18, 1882 – July 2, 1949) was one of the most influential and polarizing figures of the 20th-century international communist movement. To some, he was a courageous anti-fascist hero who famously humiliated Hermann Göring on the world stage; to others, he was a ruthless Stalinist dictator who orchestrated the brutal Sovietization of post-World War II Bulgaria [1, 2]. As the General Secretary of the Communist International (Comintern) and the first communist leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, Dimitrov’s political career reflected the turbulent shifts of European geopolitics from the collapse of empires to the freezing point of the Cold War. next...