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Evripidis Bakirtzis
Evripidis Bakirtzis was a Greek army officer known as the 'Red Colonel' for his left-wing views. A veteran of the Balkan and Asia Minor wars, he joined the resistance during the Axis occupation and in March 1944 became the first president of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), set up by EAM. He died in internal exile on the island of Ikaria in 1947.
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