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Nikos Zachariadis (27 April 1903 – 1 August 1973)was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956. He spend the duration of the WW2 in the Dachau conectration camp until May 1945. He led the Democratic Army of Greece(DSE) in the greek civil war (1946-1949). He wa 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.