Background
He was born in 1900 in Rhodope.
He was born in 1900 in Rhodope.
From his youth he became a communist member and took part in several Greek elections. In Metaxas dictatorship he will be a political outlaw. In 1937 he was arrested and went to prison.
The dictatorship delivered him along with the others political prisoners to Axis Forces.
In the prison of Akronauplia he learned some words from a Slavic dialect, and with the permission of Giannis Ioannides (2nd in Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) ranks) he declared Bulgarian ethnicity in order to get free and reconstruct the Greek communist Party. Foreign his activity was shot by Nazis in 1943.
Also he was a General Secretary of the worker"s section of National Liberation Front (Greece).
National Liberation Front]
He was a member of Central Committee of Greek Communist Party. He was the secretary of the Workers Committee and also a high-ranked member of Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece).