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Nikos Zachariadis Νίκος Ζαχαριάδης | |
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| Born | 27 April 1903 Adrianople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1 August 1973 (aged 70) Surgut, RSFSR, USSR |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism |
| Political party | Communist Party of Greece |
Nikos Zachariadis (27 April 1903 – 1 August 1973) was a Greek revolutionary who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956. He spent the duration of the Second World War in the Dachau conectration camp until May 1945. He led the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) in the Greek civil war (1946-1949). He was exiled in Siberia by Nikita Khrushchev due to his support for Joseph Stalin and his opposition to Khrushchev's revisionism. According to KGB archives he commited suicide in 1973, at age 70. The KKE fully rehabilitated Zachariadis in 2011 after changing their stance to oppose Khrushchev.☃☃
Nikos Zachariadis (27 April 1903 – 1 August 1973) was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956. He spent the duration of WW2 in the Dachau concentration camp until May 1945. He led the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) in the Greek civil war (1946-1949). He was exiled in Siberia by Nikita Khruschchev due to his anti-revisionist stance against the anti-Stalinist Nikita. According to KGB archives, he commited suicide in 1973, at age 70. The revisionist KKE, following the Kruschchevite line, fully rehabilitated Zachariadis in 2011.[citation needed]