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At the time of the Tsankoff coup d'etat in June, 1923, Chervenkov was secretary of the [[Young Communist League of Bulgaria|Young Communist League]] in Sofia, and as leader of the Komsomols he took part in the [[September Uprising|September insurrection]]. After the revolt was suppressed he remained illegally in Bulgaria and was sentenced to death in absentia. Due to his bulk and striking physical characteristics, it was not an easy thing for Chervenkov to go underground. Time and again he escaped capture by a hair's-breadth. In the two years between the 1923 revolt and the 1925 attentat in the Sofia Cathedral, he was constantly on the run. He played an important role in rebuilding the Communist Party machine, but following the wholesale massacre of Communists in 1925, he was ordered by the Central Committee to leave the country. He left illegally for [[Moscow]] and studied at [[Moscow University]]. A striking tribute to his abilities was his appointment as a director of the [[Marx-Lenin Institute]] in Moscow, where many of Europe's leading [[Communism|Communists]] passed through his hands.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=Wilfred G. Burchett|year=1951|title=People's Democracies|title-url=http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm|chapter=The life of Georgi Dimitrov, Part II|chapter-url=http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch13.htm}}</ref> | At the time of the Tsankoff coup d'etat in June, 1923, Chervenkov was secretary of the [[Young Communist League of Bulgaria|Young Communist League]] in Sofia, and as leader of the Komsomols he took part in the [[September Uprising|September insurrection]]. After the revolt was suppressed he remained illegally in Bulgaria and was sentenced to death in absentia. Due to his bulk and striking physical characteristics, it was not an easy thing for Chervenkov to go underground. Time and again he escaped capture by a hair's-breadth. In the two years between the 1923 revolt and the 1925 attentat in the Sofia Cathedral, he was constantly on the run. He played an important role in rebuilding the Communist Party machine, but following the wholesale massacre of Communists in 1925, he was ordered by the Central Committee to leave the country. He left illegally for [[Moscow]] and studied at [[Moscow University]]. A striking tribute to his abilities was his appointment as a director of the [[Marx-Lenin Institute]] in Moscow, where many of Europe's leading [[Communism|Communists]] passed through his hands.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=Wilfred G. Burchett|year=1951|title=People's Democracies|title-url=http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm|chapter=The life of Georgi Dimitrov, Part II|chapter-url=http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch13.htm}}</ref> | ||
===World War 2 === | ===World War 2=== | ||
He was naturally in closest contact with [[Georgi Dimitrov|Dimitrov]] and [[Vasil Kolarov|Kolarov]] during his exile and he was in charge of educating all Bulgarian political exiles in the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]]. When war broke out, he was put in charge of the Bulgarian language, [[Christo Botev Radio Station]].<ref name=":0" /> | He was naturally in closest contact with [[Georgi Dimitrov|Dimitrov]] and [[Vasil Kolarov|Kolarov]] during his exile and he was in charge of educating all Bulgarian political exiles in the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]]. When war broke out, he was put in charge of the Bulgarian language, [[Christo Botev Radio Station]].<ref name=":0" /> | ||