Kostas Lazaridis (1900–1943) was a Greek trade unionist and politician. He was a member of Central Committee of Communist Party of Greece. Lazaridis was also the General Secretary of the National Workers' Liberation Front (Εθνικό Εργατικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο, ΕΕΑΜ) which constituted the worker's section of National Liberation Front.[1]
He was born in 1900 in Iasmos, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. From his youth he became a communist member and took part in several Greek elections.[2] In 1936, Ioannis Metaxas'4th of August Regime outlawed the Greek Communist Party. In 1937 he was arrested and imprisoned in Acronauplia. When Greece was occupied by the Axis powers in 1941 Lazaridis was turned over to the occupiers, alongside other political prisoners. While in prison he learned some words from a Slavic dialect. With the permission of Giannis Ioannides (2nd in KKE ranks), he falsely declared himself to be of Bulgarian ethnicity in order to be released and resume working for the Greek Communist Party.[3]
Axis Occupationedit
He was the secretary of the Workers Committee and also a high-ranked member of KKE. For his activity was shot by Nazis in 1943.[4]
Familyedit
His wife was sentenced to death by Bulgarian occupation army for her activities.[5] He had a daughter and son, well known from the case Nikos Beloyannis.
^Γιάννης Ιωαννίδης, Αναμνήσεις. Προβλήματα της πολιτικής του ΚΚΕ στην Εθνική Αντίσταση (1940–1945), επιμ. Αλέκου Παπαναγιώτου, σσ. 86, 87, Αθήνα 1979
^"Ποιοι πολέμησαν και ποιοι ήταν οι συνεργάτες των κατακτητών, Λεωνίδας Στρίγγος, Ριζοσπάστης Φύλλο: 10/11/1981, Σελίδα: 3 & 7" (in Greek). efimeris.nlg.gr. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
^Ευτυχώς Ηττηθήκαμε Σύντροφοι. Τάκης Λαζαρίδης, εκδόσεις Πελασγός Την ίδια περίπου εποχή, το 1943, η μητέρα μου, επειδή ανέπτυξε αντιστασιακή δράση κατά των Βουλγάρων κατακτητών, πιάστηκε μαζί με άλλους πατριώτες στην Κομοτηνή, δικάστηκε από βουλγαρικό στρατοδικείο και καταδικάστηκε σε ισόβια δεσμά. Κλείστηκε στις βουλγαρικές φυλακές και σίγουρα θα σάπιζε εκεί αν δεν μεσολαβούσε η συμμαχική νίκη και το διώξιμο των Βουλγάρων από τη Θράκη.
January 01, 1970
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