Talk:Dimitrovgrad, Serbia

Origins of Dimitrovgrad
Dimitrovgrad was named after Georgi Dimitrov - the "Lion of Leptzig". He became Bulgarian president after the Communist takeover in 1945. Dimitrov was a fervent Communist. Following Marxist ideas he was also a fanatical internationalist. Together with Stalin and Tito he was behind the project for creating Macedonian nation. He went so far in his internationalist endeavours that Serbs hailed him as a hero and named Tsaribrod Dimitrovgrad, in his honour. Whereas there were no immediate consequences for carving out a separate nation out of the Bulgarian ethnos, his internationalist persuits costed him his life. Believing that the Balkans should be turned into a Balkan Federation, he was summoned to Moscow and poisoned by Stalin. His internationalist Balkan idea explains to a great extent his actions of fragmenting a nation for a greater good - a strong federal Balkan state. United under common Slavic cultural ties, a a federation of united Slavs including Yugoslavia and Bulgaria could have been an immense political and economic accomplishment.

"Others"
Just out of interest, who are the "other" 20% of the population who are neither Bulgarian or Serbian? Bezuidenhout (talk) 15:20, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Turks, Gypsies and those not giving any "ethnicity" and others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.14.246 (talk) 13:18, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Greeks are another possibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.14.246 (talk) 15:11, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

70 year claus with Bulgaria
By now, Dimitovgrad should be part of Bulgaria, because of an overdue claus. Should that be mentioned? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domata789 (talk • contribs) 14:01, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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