http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Charilaos_Florakis&feed=atom&action=historyCharilaos Florakis - Revision history2024-03-29T12:18:49ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Charilaos_Florakis&diff=33940&oldid=prevIrlandos at 11:58, May 21, 20082008-05-21T11:58:38Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>First elected to [[Hellenic <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Parliamnet</del>|parliament]] in [[1974]], Florakis led KKE as its general secretary from [[December 20]], [[1972]] until 1989, when, though still fit for the job, he announced his decision to step down from the party's top post and proposed [[Grigoris Farakos]] as his successor.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>First elected to [[Hellenic <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Parliament</ins>|parliament]] in [[1974]], Florakis led KKE as its general secretary from [[December 20]], [[1972]] until 1989, when, though still fit for the job, he announced his decision to step down from the party's top post and proposed [[Grigoris Farakos]] as his successor.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis did not retire from politics, however. In the same year he retired from the leadership of the KKE, he was approved as the president of the newly-founded Synaspismos or [[Coalition of the Left]]. Synaspismos was an attempt to reconcile Greece's two main communist factions, which arose in [[1968]] out of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring. That show of brute strength led many Greek communists to break with the Moscow-oriented KKE and to follow the nascent Eurocommunist path, which favoured national agendas and a more democratic road to socialism.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis did not retire from politics, however. In the same year he retired from the leadership of the KKE, he was approved as the president of the newly-founded Synaspismos or [[Coalition of the Left]]. Synaspismos was an attempt to reconcile Greece's two main communist factions, which arose in [[1968]] out of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring. That show of brute strength led many Greek communists to break with the Moscow-oriented KKE and to follow the nascent Eurocommunist path, which favoured national agendas and a more democratic road to socialism.</div></td></tr>
</table>Irlandoshttp://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Charilaos_Florakis&diff=33939&oldid=prevIrlandos at 11:58, May 21, 20082008-05-21T11:58:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Charilaos Florakis''' ([[1914]]-[[2005]]) ([[Greek language|Greek]]: &#935;&#945;&#961;&#943;&#955;&#945;&#959;&#962; &#934;&#955;&#969;&#961;&#940;&#954;&#951;&#962; also Harilaos Florakis) was a leader of the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Charilaos Florakis''' ([[1914]]-[[2005]]) ([[Greek language|Greek]]: &#935;&#945;&#961;&#943;&#955;&#945;&#959;&#962; &#934;&#955;&#969;&#961;&#940;&#954;&#951;&#962; also Harilaos Florakis) was a leader of the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis was born on [[July 20]], [[1914]] in the Paliozoglopi village, located near [[Agrafa]] in the [[Itamos]] municipality, [[Karditsa prefecture]], [[Greece]]. He joined the [[KKE]], in [[1941]]. A partisan during the resistance to the Nazi occupation in [[World War Two]], Florakis was on the losing side of the [[Greek Civil War]] and subsequently left the country.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis was born on [[July 20]], [[1914]] in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Paliozoglopi<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>village, located near [[Agrafa]] in the [[Itamos]] municipality, [[Karditsa prefecture]], [[Greece]]. He joined the [[KKE]], in [[1941]]. A partisan during the resistance to the Nazi occupation in [[World War Two]], Florakis was on the losing side of the [[Greek Civil War]] and subsequently left the country.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He returned to Greece illegally in [[1954]] and was arrested. During his life he spent 18 years in detention or jail - including being put in internal exile by the Greek colonels at the start of the 1967-74 military dictatorship.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He returned to Greece illegally in [[1954]] and was arrested. During his life he spent 18 years in detention or jail - including being put in internal exile by the Greek colonels at the start of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Junta|</ins>1967-74 military dictatorship<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>First elected to parliament in [[1974]], Florakis led KKE as its general secretary from [[December 20]], [[1972]] until 1989, when, though still fit for the job, he announced his decision to step down from the party's top post and proposed [[Grigoris Farakos]] as his successor.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>First elected to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Hellenic Parliamnet|</ins>parliament<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in [[1974]], Florakis led KKE as its general secretary from [[December 20]], [[1972]] until 1989, when, though still fit for the job, he announced his decision to step down from the party's top post and proposed [[Grigoris Farakos]] as his successor.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis did not retire from politics, however. In the same year he retired from the leadership of the KKE, he was approved as the president of the newly-founded Synaspismos or Coalition of the Left. Synaspismos was an attempt to reconcile Greece's two main communist factions, which arose in 1968 out of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring. That show of brute strength led many Greek communists to break with the Moscow-oriented KKE and to follow the nascent Eurocommunist path, which favoured national agendas and a more democratic road to socialism.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis did not retire from politics, however. In the same year he retired from the leadership of the KKE, he was approved as the president of the newly-founded Synaspismos or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Coalition of the Left<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Synaspismos was an attempt to reconcile Greece's two main communist factions, which arose in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1968<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>out of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring. That show of brute strength led many Greek communists to break with the Moscow-oriented KKE and to follow the nascent Eurocommunist path, which favoured national agendas and a more democratic road to socialism.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Synaspismos was created partly at the instigation of Florakis, and drew members from both the KKE and the Euro-communists. It also became an umbrella for other leftist groups and disaffected supporters of the [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">PASOK|</del>Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] of [[Andreas Papandreou]], which lost a general election in [[1989]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Synaspismos was created partly at the instigation of Florakis, and drew members from both the KKE and the Euro-communists. It also became an umbrella for other leftist groups and disaffected supporters of the [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] of [[Andreas Papandreou]], which lost a general election in [[1989]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1991, as it became increasingly clear that Soviet communism would not last, a rift arose within the KKE between those who supported continuing efforts towards a reconciliation with the Euro-communists through Synaspismos, and traditionalists who felt that communism was threatened internationally and favoured a return to ideological roots. Florakis sided with the latter and at the 13th KKE conference in early 1991 - even before the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union - the party officially withdrew all support from Synaspismos and Florakis was elected honorary president of the KKE.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1991<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, as it became increasingly clear that Soviet communism would not last, a rift arose within the KKE between those who supported continuing efforts towards a reconciliation with the Euro-communists through Synaspismos, and traditionalists who felt that communism was threatened internationally and favoured a return to ideological roots. Florakis sided with the latter and at the 13th KKE conference in early 1991 - even before the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union - the party officially withdrew all support from Synaspismos and Florakis was elected honorary president of the KKE.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis died of heart failure at his home in [[Athens]] on [[May 22]], [[2005]]. Florakis' body lay in state at the KKE headquarters in [[Perissos]] on May 24-25 where thousands of party members and sympathisers queued to pay their respects. Party leader [[Aleka Papariga]] addressed a civil funeral on the evening of May 25 which was attended by the President of Greece [[Karolos Papoulias]], prime minister [[Costas Karamanlis]], parliament speaker [[Anna Benaki-Psarouda]], opposition <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pasok </del>party leader [[George Andreas Papandreou|George Papandreou]], Left Coalition leader [[Alekos Alavanos]], Cypriot communist party [[AKEL]] leader and Cyprus parliament speaker [[Dimitris Christofias]], many ministers and MPs and other dignitaries. He was laid to rest on May 26 at the Agios Ilias cemetery in his native village.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Florakis died of heart failure at his home in [[Athens]] on [[May 22]], [[2005]]. Florakis' body lay in state at the KKE headquarters in [[Perissos]] on May 24-25 where thousands of party members and sympathisers queued to pay their respects. Party leader [[Aleka Papariga]] addressed a civil funeral on the evening of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>May 25<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>which was attended by the President of Greece [[Karolos Papoulias]], prime minister [[Costas Karamanlis]], parliament speaker [[Anna Benaki-Psarouda]], opposition <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">PASOK </ins>party leader [[George Andreas Papandreou|George Papandreou]], Left Coalition leader [[Alekos Alavanos]], Cypriot communist party [[AKEL]] leader and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[House of Representatives of Cyprus|</ins>Cyprus parliament<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>speaker [[Dimitris Christofias]], many ministers and MPs and other dignitaries. He was laid to rest on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>May 26<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>at the Agios Ilias cemetery in his native village.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Irlandoshttp://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Charilaos_Florakis&diff=29079&oldid=prevIrlandos at 12:29, September 10, 20072007-09-10T12:29:54Z<p></p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Charilaos Florakis''' (1914-2005) ([[Greek language|Greek]]: &#935;&#945;&#961;&#943;&#955;&#945;&#959;&#962; &#934;&#955;&#969;&#961;&#940;&#954;&#951;&#962; also Harilaos Florakis) was a leader of the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE).<br />
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Florakis was born on [[July 20]], [[1914]] in the Paliozoglopi village, located near [[Agrafa]] in the [[Itamos]] municipality, [[Karditsa prefecture]], [[Greece]]. He joined the [[KKE]], in [[1941]]. A partisan during the resistance to the Nazi occupation in [[World War Two]], Florakis was on the losing side of the [[Greek Civil War]] and subsequently left the country.<br />
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He returned to Greece illegally in [[1954]] and was arrested. During his life he spent 18 years in detention or jail - including being put in internal exile by the Greek colonels at the start of the 1967-74 military dictatorship.<br />
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First elected to parliament in [[1974]], Florakis led KKE as its general secretary from [[December 20]], [[1972]] until 1989, when, though still fit for the job, he announced his decision to step down from the party's top post and proposed [[Grigoris Farakos]] as his successor.<br />
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Florakis did not retire from politics, however. In the same year he retired from the leadership of the KKE, he was approved as the president of the newly-founded Synaspismos or Coalition of the Left. Synaspismos was an attempt to reconcile Greece's two main communist factions, which arose in 1968 out of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring. That show of brute strength led many Greek communists to break with the Moscow-oriented KKE and to follow the nascent Eurocommunist path, which favoured national agendas and a more democratic road to socialism.<br />
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Synaspismos was created partly at the instigation of Florakis, and drew members from both the KKE and the Euro-communists. It also became an umbrella for other leftist groups and disaffected supporters of the [[PASOK|Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] of [[Andreas Papandreou]], which lost a general election in [[1989]].<br />
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In 1991, as it became increasingly clear that Soviet communism would not last, a rift arose within the KKE between those who supported continuing efforts towards a reconciliation with the Euro-communists through Synaspismos, and traditionalists who felt that communism was threatened internationally and favoured a return to ideological roots. Florakis sided with the latter and at the 13th KKE conference in early 1991 - even before the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union - the party officially withdrew all support from Synaspismos and Florakis was elected honorary president of the KKE.<br />
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Florakis died of heart failure at his home in [[Athens]] on [[May 22]], [[2005]]. Florakis' body lay in state at the KKE headquarters in [[Perissos]] on May 24-25 where thousands of party members and sympathisers queued to pay their respects. Party leader [[Aleka Papariga]] addressed a civil funeral on the evening of May 25 which was attended by the President of Greece [[Karolos Papoulias]], prime minister [[Costas Karamanlis]], parliament speaker [[Anna Benaki-Psarouda]], opposition Pasok party leader [[George Andreas Papandreou|George Papandreou]], Left Coalition leader [[Alekos Alavanos]], Cypriot communist party [[AKEL]] leader and Cyprus parliament speaker [[Dimitris Christofias]], many ministers and MPs and other dignitaries. He was laid to rest on May 26 at the Agios Ilias cemetery in his native village.<br />
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