Word: nico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his own masters, after three decades of subservience, came only denunciations. For he had run afoul of Nicholas ("Nico") Zachariades, the real strong man of Greek Communism, who operates from the safety of the satellite countries...
...Ploumbides knew all this when he went to trial in July 1953, but his loyalty was unswerving. He appeared in, court daily in a well-pressed white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...