Nikos Zakhariadis ( Greek Νίκος Ζαχαριάδης , also known as Frantic Nikos , Nikolaev Nikolay Nikolaevich , April 27, 1903 , Edirne , Ottoman Empire - August 1, 1973 , Surgut , RSFSR , USSR ) - leader of the Greek labor movement. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956.
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| Predecessor | Marcos Wafiadis | ||||||
| Successor | Dimitrios Partzalidis | ||||||
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| Death | Surgut , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||
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| Education | Communist University of the East Workers | ||||||
Biography
He was born in a tobacco family, from his youth he worked at the port as a loader, participated in the strike movement. He graduated from the Moscow Communist University of the East. I.V. Stalin . From 1936 to 1945 he was repeatedly imprisoned in Greek prisons and German concentration camps . In May 1945 he returned from the German Dachau camp , spoke to 200,000 supporters. In the Greek civil war of 1946-1949, he commanded the Democratic Army of Greece . The war ended with the defeat of the army of Zakhariadis, after which he, together with the headquarters of the KKE, moved to Albania , then to Bucharest . He supported Stalin , sharply opposing Tito .
The 7th expanded Plenum of the Central Committee of the KKE (February 18-24, 1957) decided to withdraw N. Zakhariadis from the Central Committee of the KKE and to expel him from the party "as an anti-party, factionalist, anti-internationalist, enemy element." Then he was sent to the actual exile in Borovichi ( Novgorod region ), where he worked as the head of forestry under the name of N. N. Nikolaev. Then he was deported to the Khanty-Mansiysk National District of the Tyumen Region . July 16, 1970 was recognized as a political emigrant . He lived in exile under a false name in Surgut , where he hanged himself on August 1, 1973 [2] .
He was buried in Tyumen , and then, in December 1991, reburied in Greece , in Athens .
On October 2, 2011, the Communist Party of Greece officially rehabilitated and reinstated Nikos Zakhariadis in the party [3] : “There was a need to rehabilitate Nikos Zakhariadis, who was removed from the post of leader of the KKE and expelled from the party due to an unfair, erroneous charge of imposing a sectarian, dogmatic and adventurist line on the party . This accusation was the result of the dominance of opportunism in the international communist movement, in the CPSU and in other parties in power, which led to its dominance in the KKE, too , ”said Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece Alec Papariga in her speech on December 14, 2011 [4] .
In September 2014 in Surgut, on the building where N. Zakhariadis worked, a memorial plaque was inaugurated. The opening was attended by officials, including those from the KKE.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11889949X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ August 1 - Thirty years from the death of the former Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece, Nikos Zahariadis .
- ↑ The rehabilitation event of Nikos Zakhariadis .
- ↑ Communist Party of Greece - Speech by the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Aleka Papariga at the presentation of the second volume of the Essay on the history of the party (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 22, 2012. Archived July 2, 2012.
Links
- Alexey Zakhariadis: “I gave my word to keep a secret, but I didn’t keep it”
- V. Malyshev: The Case of Frantic Nikos. How the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece Zakhariadis and his associates turned out to be emigrants in Tashkent [1]
- ΕΠΙΣΤΡΕΦΕΙ ΤΟ ΚΚΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΝΙΚΟΥ ΖΑΧΑΡΙΑΔΗ- ΟΙ ΑΝΑΔΡΟΜΙΚΕΣ ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ (Greek)