The three versions of Nikos Zachariadis death
A. The first two versions
In the first days of August 1973, when the Soviet authorities and the
Khruschevian Florakis leadership announced that Nikos Zachariadis died, two
different versions of his death were immediately formulated. The first and the
official one was presented by his executioners, the social-democratic
Brezhnev-Florakis leadership: “On the 1st of August Nikos Zachariadis died from
heart attack at the age of 70” (Announcement from the CC of “K”KE). The second
one was supported by the overwhelming majority of Greek communists (more than
95%) who rejected at once the version according to which Nikos Zachariadis died
from “heart attack”, regarding it as a KGB fabrication, and believed that he
was murdered by the Khruschevian revisionists (Soviet and Greek) in Sorgut,
Siberia, his place of exile.
B. The third version, of “suicide”, or how the soviet revisionists and the
social-democratic clique of Florakis-Tsolakis-Koukoulou et al. contradict
themselves
Seventeen years after the initial “announcement” of the Soviet authorities,
Alexander Petrushin, a KGB Colonel, sent a note to the newspaper “Tiumenski
Izvestia” in which he contradicted the original version and presented a third
one, that of “suicide”: “the General Secretary of the CC of KKE, Nikos
Zachariadis, did not die from heart attack, as it has been known until now, but
he committed suicide by hanging himself on the 1st of August of 1973 in Sorgut,
Siberia, where he was in exile under the name of Nikolai Nikolayevich
Nikolayev” (“Rizospastis”, 9/12/1990).
It is obvious that these two versions of Nikos Zachariadis’s death, the one of
“heart attack” and the other of “suicide”, are mutually exclusive and,
therefore, false.
The treacherous social-democratic cliques of Brezhnev-Florakis, the actual
executioners of Nikos Zachariadis, flatly contradict themselves. When were they
telling the truth, in 1973 or in 1990? In both cases they were, obviously,
lying in order to cover the crime they committed, that is, the murder of Nikos
Zachariadis, a crime that even the Nazis did not dare to commit.
The Khruschevian revisionists’ second version, the one of “suicide”, is anyway
without a basis because: a) communists do not commit suicide and under no
circumstances would Nikos Zachariadis, as a communist leader, do such a thing
because his philosophical outlook was that of revolutionary
Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism, i.e. the militant philosophy of revolutionary class
struggle and, moreover, he had never advised any communist to kill himself but
to fight until the end sacrificing their very life for the interests of the
working class, the cause of the proletarian revolution and socialism-communism;
b) Nikos Zachariadis “committed suicide” exactly like our people’s hero, the
leader of the trade-union association, Dimitris Paparigas whose own murder was
presented by the Greek State Security as a suicide committed allegedly using
his pyjamas’ cord.
C. The murder of Nikos Zachariadis
The overwhelming majority of Greek communists correctly reckoned, and still
reckons, that the Soviet revisionists were the ones who murdered Nikos
Zachariadis following an agreement with and a demand from the treacherous
clique of Florakis-Loules-Tsolakis-Koukoulou et al. in order to maintain the
existence of the social-democratic “K”KE whose presence and action served, on
one hand, the foreign policy of the revisionist-capitalist Soviet Union and, on
the other, the interests of the indigenous reactionary bourgeois class acting
as its agency in the ranks of the Greek working class movement.
It was not a coincidence at all that the heinous crime of Nikos Zachariadis
murder was committed on the eve of political “change” in Greece. The Soviet
revisionists, due to their collaboration with the American imperialists, were
aware that a political “change” is imminent in Greece, namely the replacement
of the military-fascist dictatorship by a bourgeois “democratic” government. If
the new government wanted to maintain its democratic faηade, it had not only to
legalise the revisionist “K”KE but, also, to allow the repatriation of the
communist political refugees, the former DAG partisans, from the revisionist
countries. However, it was known to both the Greek and Soviet revisionists that
the great majority (about 85%-95%) of the Greek communists were staunch
supporters of Zachariadis and, upon their return to Greece, would immediately
raise the issue of his liberation from exile employing all possible means
including daily
demonstrations in front of the Soviet embassy and an international campaign.
Under such pressure, the Soviet revisionists would be compelled to set him free
and let him return to his homeland.
Consequently, under these circumstances that were beyond their control, and
aware of the great authority Nikos Zachariadis enjoyed among the Greek
communists, the Soviet revisionists of the Brezhnev anticommunist clique
decided to murder the great communist leader and former member of the EC of the
Third International in accordance with the agreeable opinion and demand of the
social-democratic Florakis leadership. The reasons behind this decision were
directly linked with the consequences the return of Nikos Zachariadis to Greece
would have: a) the inevitable downfall of their instruments in the country,
that is the liquidation of the two social-democratic parties “K”KE and “K”KE-in
due to great influence he had on Greek communists b) the reorganisation of the
communists and the formation of the revolutionary massive KKE, guided by
revolutionary Marxism, that is of Leninism-Stalinism, and the concomitant
preservation of the antifascist,
anti-imperialist EDA party (that was liquidated by the revisionists and
replaced by, the harmless to the interests of the bourgeois and the
imperialists, PASOK) c) the prospect of a revolutionary KKE in alliance with
the socialist Albania would be very dangerous, at that time, to the fate of
Kruschevian revisionism in Europe, to the existence and activity of the Soviet
and European revisionists.
In addition to the above, what shows that the third version of Nikos
Zachariadis death, i.e. the one of his murder, is correct and convincing are
the following:
First, the statement-confession made by Stavros Zorbalas, the director of the
Centre of Marxist Studies, in 1980: “How could there be a Party (meaning the
revisionist “K”KE) if Zachariadis would come to Greece?” (D. Vyssios: “Open
letter to Boris Nikolayevich Panomariov, former head of the Department of
International Relations of the CC of CPSU) but, also, by Panos Demetriou: “at
any rate, only a KGB report can solve the riddle concerning his death”
(“Ethnos”, 29/12/1990).
Second, the very important testimony of the journalist Vera Kuznechova in her
interview: “I brought G. Mauros (Greek journalist) in contact with competent
persons like Zachariadis’s guard and the forensic doctor who, under pressure,
wrote falsely in his report that Nikos Zachariadis died from heart attack. When
I talked to him, he admitted that he had diagnosed assassination, no heart
attack”
Third, the statement made by Natalia Tomilina, the director of the Russian
State Archives, in the spring of 2000: “Not all evidence pertaining Nikos
Zachariadis has been published and, especially, the documents related to the
circumstances of his death. These documents have been classified as top secret
and no access to them is allowed until they are declassified.” (Lefteris
Apostolou “Nikos Zachariades”, p. 15, Filistor, 2000).
But the fundamental question arises here: if the case of Nikos Zachariadis
death was drawn to definite close with the establishment of the “suicide”
version, why, then, the part of the Archives related to the circumstances of
his death is not published? Why the documents about the circumstances of his
death are, still, classified as top secret and no access to them is allowed?
It is evident that the anticommunist Khruschevian revisionists and their
fascist secret services, even after more than three decades (1973-2006) and
despite continuous “editing”, cannot render their Archives plausible as to the
second false version of Nikos Zachariadis death, the one of “suicide”.
The above statement of the director of the Russian Archives makes the version
of adopted by the exiled Greek communists even more convincing. According to
this version Nikos Zachariadis was murdered by the Kruschevian-Brezhnevic
leadership having secured the consensus of H. Florakis who “even if he did not
ask for this himself”, as the veteran communist N. Kepesis wrote: “at any rate,
H. Florakis was the instigator of Nikos Zachariadis’s murder”.
Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-1955
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