Stella Blagoeva

Stella Dimitrova Blagoeva (Bulgarian: Стела Димитрова Благоева; 1887–1954) was a Bulgarian Communist revolutionary and diplomat, the most prominent woman politician in the early People's Republic of Bulgaria.

[1] After the failed 1923 insurrection, her parents died and she lost her teaching job.

Released from jail in 1926, she travelled to the Soviet Union, rising in the Comintern to become director of the cadre section of the Latin-language countries.

On the Comintern's 1943 dissolution, she was appointed to the foreign bureau of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and the presidium of the Pan-Slav Committee.

[1] After World War II she returned to Bulgaria, where she became prominent in the Bulgarian Communist Party.