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Jan 16, 1895 Serres, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece Died on 09 Mar 1947 (aged 52)
Greek politician
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About Evripidis Bakirtzis
- Evripidis Bakirtzis (Greek: ????p?d?? ?pa???t???; 16 January 1895 – 9 March 1947), born in Serres, Ottoman Empire, was a Hellenic Army officer and politician.
- Dismissed from the army twice due to his participation in pro-republican coup attempts, later during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II he co-founded the EKKA resistance group and later he joined the Greek People's Liberation Army.
- He served as head of the Political Committee of National Liberation, a government of Greek Resistance-held territories, from 10 March to 18 April 1944.
- He was nicknamed "the Red Colonel", from his pen name in the communist Rizospastis. He was found dead in 1947 in exile, during the later Greek civil war, in Fournoi Korseon.
