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Nikos Zachariadis

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Nikos Zachariadis was a Greek politician and revolutionary who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1931 to 1956.

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The public source identifies “Nikos Zachariadis” as general Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nikos, Zachariadis and General.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikos Zachariadis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.