Nikos Zachariadis

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]}