Ivan Todorov-Gorunia

Ivan Todorov Vankinski-Gorunya (Bulgarian: Иван Тодоров-Горуня; 5 January 1916 – 8 April 1965, also spelled Gorunia and Gorunja) was a Bulgarian politician.

Biography Todorov-Gorunya was born in 1916 in the village Gorna Kremena in Vratsa Province. Little is known about his early life; however, he was known to have been a stonemason for sixteen years.

The coup (also known as April Conspiracy) was exposed by the counter-intelligence service and between 28 March and 12 April 1965 most of the plotters were arrested. Todorov-Gorunya (probably) committed suicide just before the arrest. Nine of the other participants received relatively mild sentences ranging from 8 to 15 years imprisonment, while another 192 got party or administrative punishments. Existence of the plot was kept hidden from the public.

Literature A Handbook of the Communist Security Apparatus in East Central Europe 1944–1989, Warsaw, 2005. Article "Bulgaria" by Jordan Baev and Kostadin Grozev, pp. 37–86. Ionko Bonov: Legendarniiat Ivan Todorov-Gorunya: Khudozhestveno-dokumentalna povest (Legendary Ivan Todorov-Gorunya: Artistic and Documentary Report), 1994.