Nikos Zachariadis

Nikos Zachariadis Νίκος Ζαχαριάδης
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 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 Khrushchev due to his support for Joseph Stalin and his opposition to Khrushchev's revisionism. According to KGB archives he committed suicide in 1973, at age 70. The KKE fully rehabilitated Zachariadis in 2011 after changing their stance to oppose Khrushchev.^{[citation needed]}