A conspiracy theory claims that his secret service was behind the 1981 assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II.
This man's anti-Muslim policies included banning the washing of the dead and forbidding anyone who was not a qualified surgeon from performing a circumcision. Muslim retaliation to this man's policies included a wave of bombings accompanied with the slogan "forty years, forty bombs." Unrealistic modifications of his country's Third Five-Year Plan were known as this man's "Theses." Under this man, the company Kintex provided arms to Third World countries and may have also been involved in the drug trade. Late in his rule, he proposed a liberalization of government known as the "July Concept" and initiated the "New Economic Mechanism," but also demanded that all Turks in his country change their names. A conspiracy theory claims that his secret service was behind the 1981 assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II. For 10 points, name this Communist leader of Bulgaria from 1954 to 1989.
This man's anti-Muslim policies included banning the washing of the dead and forbidding anyone who was not a qualified surgeon from performing a circumcision.
Todor Zhivkov