Biography
Todor Hristov Zhivkov (7 September 1911 – 5 August 1998) 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 after Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.
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The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)
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Space Sailors (2010)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1911-09-07
Deathday1998-08-05 (86 years old)
Birth PlacePravets, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Religionatheism
ChildrenVladimir Zhivkov, Lyudmila Zhivkova
CitizenshipsKingdom of Bulgaria, People's Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria
Also Known AsTodor Živkov, Toдор Живков, Todor Jivkov
AwardsGrand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star, Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Gold Olympic Order, Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Order of Playa Girón, Order of Klement Gottwald, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Order of José Martí, Order of the Nile, Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the Yugoslav Star, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Chrysanthemum, Order of Karl Marx, Olympic Order, Order of the Redeemer, Order of Sukhbaatar, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Republic, Order of the Aztec Eagle, Order of Prince Henry
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