People of the Revolution and the USSR

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Communism 1890–1947 ○ Natural causes

A KKE leader who bore both the Resistance's victory and its defeat at the negotiating table

Regarding Siantos as 'an agent of the British', Zachariadis in 1946 delayed his own departure abroad, 'in no case wanting to leave Siantos behind'.

A tobacco worker turned labor organizer, Georgios Siantos became a leading figure of the Greek Communist Party (KKE). When Nikolaos Zachariadis was transferred to Dachau, Siantos served as the party's acting general secretary and led the KKE, National Liberation Front (EAM), and Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) through the German occupation. He directed EAM forces during the December 1944 fighting, opposed disarmament, yet ultimately pursued negotiation. In February 1945 he led the EAM delegation that signed the Varkiza Agreement, whose disarmament terms became, amid the subsequent White Terror and renewed civil conflict, the political defeat of the EAM.

Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) Communism 1905–1945 ✕ Suicide

Organizer of a mass partisan war against occupation

In Domnista in 1942, he led a small mountain guerrilla band and proclaimed the emergence of ELAS.

Born Athanasios Klaras, Aris Velouchiotis was a Greek communist activist who became the key organizer linking the National Liberation Front, EAM, with its military arm, ELAS, during the occupation. In 1942 he formed a small guerrilla force in the mountains of Roumeli and built its early base by combining strict discipline with mass politics. Joint actions such as the destruction of the Gorgopotamos viaduct demonstrated the potential of armed resistance, while EAM-ELAS’s growing dominance also sharpened conflict with rival resistance groups and Britain. After the Varkiza Agreement he rejected demobilization, broke with the party leadership, and died isolated in 1945; the communist movement later restored his standing.