Angel Solakov
Bulgarian politician
Angel Ivanov Solakov (Bulgarian: Ангел Иванов Солаков; 22 July 1922 – 1998) was a Bulgarian Communist politician and statesman who served as the Minister of Interior and chairman of the Committee for State Security.
Biography
Solakov was born in Sofia and joined the Workers' Youth League at the age of 16 in 1938 and the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1942.
During the war, Solakov led communist partisan detachments against the regime. He was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Solakov was released in 1944 after the Soviet army invaded Bulgaria.
Solakov was active in the Dimitrov Communist Youth Union and was secretary of the Central Committee of the union from 1951 to 1958. After power was solidified in the hands of Todor Zhivkov, Solakov quickly rose in the hierarchy of the Bulgarian People's Republic. He was co-opted into the Central Committee of the BCP and was appointed deputy Interior Minister.
In 1965 he took an active part in the suppression of the 1965 coup d'état attempt, after which the dictator Zhivkov made him chairman of the State Security Committee, separated from the Ministry of Interior, and after the KDS was merged with the Ministry in 1968, he received the rank of minister.
In the 1971 he started to fall out of favor with the BCP leadership, particularly Zhivkov himself and subsequently he was removed from his office.
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