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Mikhail Dinchev Tsitselkov (Михаил Динчев Цицелков)
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- Died
Biography
Bulgarian anarcho-communist revolutionary.
As a student, he became acquainted with the ideas of anarchism and became a consistent and convinced anarcho-communist. Because of his active anarchist activity in school he was expelled from the Koprivshtitsa High School.
After the exclusion from high school, Tsitselkov became even more actively involved in the struggles of the anarchist movement. He writes and disseminates calls, legal and illegal anarchist literature. He met with many anarchists, including Vasil Ikonomov, Nesho Tumangelov and others. He maintains close ties with the famous anarchist, a friend of Mihail Gerdzhikov, Pencho Kalkanov - Vidin. Kalkanov participated in the Transfiguration Uprising and in the struggles for the liberation of Thrace and Macedonia.
In 1923. Tsitselkov participated in the September uprising. After the defeat of the uprising, he was arrested and inquired by the police. He was convicted and jailed. He was released from prison in 1924, but continued to be persecuted by the authorities, forcing him to go underground. He is associated with Vasil Ikonomov. In Koprivshtitsa Vasil Ikonomov organized a detachment of 17 people, in the vicinity of Zlatitsa Mihail Tsitselkov gathered 6 people.
At the end of November – the beginning of December 1924, after an action, the illegal Tsitselkov, Vasil Ikonomov and Ivan Alexiev moved from Pazardzhik to Zlatitsa. On December 4, the evening reached the vicinity of Zlatitsa, where Tsitselkov parted with his comrades and headed for the city. On December 5, after treason, he was found and surrounded by the police. He refuses to turn himself in and starts a shootout with the officers. With the last bullet he killed himself so he wouldn't fall into the hands of the police.