Markos Vafeiadis

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Markos Vafeiadis
Μάρκος Βαφειάδης
Markos Vafeiadis in 1948
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
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In office
5 November 1989 – 22 February 1992
Head of the Provisional Democratic Government
In office
December 24, 1947 – February 7, 1949
Succeeded byNikos Zachariadis
Personal details
Born(1906-01-28)28 January 1906
Greek Resistance, Greek Civil War

Markos Vafeiadis (also spelled as Vafiadis and Vafiades;

Greek Resistance and the Greek Civil War.[3]

Pre-war life

Markos Vafeiadis in 1931, at the start of his political rise.

Vafiedis was born in Tosya, Ottoman Empire in 1906 although some sources claim he was born in Şenkaya, Erzurum in present-day Turkey.[1] At the age of 17, after the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey of 1923, Vafeiadis went to Thessaloniki and Kavala as a refugee. From 1928, he worked in Thessaloniki as a member of the Young Communist League of Greece (OKNE). In 1932, he was imprisoned and sent to internal exile for his political action. After his release in October 1933, he worked as party instructor in many areas of Greece.

At the beginning of

Chania uprising against the dictatorial regime (July 28, 1938). After the suppression of the uprising, he went to Athens where he was arrested. He was jailed in Akronafplia and was exiled to the island of Gavdos
.

Resistance and Civil War

In May 1941, at the beginning of the

Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS). In May 1944, he was elected as a representative of Thessaloniki to the national congress that took place at the village of Koryschades in Evrytania, but was unable to attend. On 30 October 1944, after the withdrawal of the German army, and following battles against the Security Battalions, he entered as liberator in Thessaloniki with his men of ELAS.[4]

In November 1944, his forces liberated

Greek Jews from imminent peril from the exiting Nazi regime. In February 1946, Markos Vafeiadis disagreed with Nikos Zachariadis
, the general secretary of KKE, who wanted to create a standing communist army. Vafeiadis believed that the forces of the Greek government were too strong, and the best option for the KKE was a guerrilla struggle.

However, in July 1946, Zachariadis appointed him as leader of the communist

War Minister of the Provisional Democratic Government
.

During the last stages of the Civil War his disagreement with Zachariadis on issues of military doctrine led to his removal from leadership (August 1948) and later from all offices (January 1949). In October 1950, he was ousted from the Communist Party, while he was in exile in the Soviet Union, where he had fled after the breakup of the DSE.

Post-Civil War

After the end of

Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).[6]
In 1984 he was awarded the rank of the General of the Hellenic army.

Bibliography

  • Dominique Eude, Les Kapetanios (in French, Greek and English), Artheme Fayard, 1970

References

  1. ^ a b Şentek, Arif (29 January 2022). "Markos ve Tosya'daki evi". Bianet. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  2. ^ Vafeiadis, Markos (1984). ΒΑΦΕΙΑΔΗΣ: ΑΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ (ΠΡΩΤΟΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ. Athens: ΔΙΦΡΟΣ. p. 9.
  3. ^ "Markos Vafiades | Greek political leader". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  4. ^ "Το Ρεπορτάζ Χωρίς Σύνορα". Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
  5. ^ Binder, David (19 October 1986). "Odysseus of the Greek Left Feels Back 'In My Element'". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Dimitras, Panayote Elias (June 1990). "The Greek parliamentary election of November 1989". Electoral Studies. 9 (2): 159–163.

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 Head of Provisional Democratic Government
December 24, 1947 – February 7, 1949 		Succeeded by
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