Career
Partsalidis was a Pontic Greek born in Trabzon in the Trebizond Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Partsaldis soon joined the Communist Party of Greece and became involved in politics. There followed a wave of electoral wins in Communist strongholds and those elected were nicknamed the Red Mayors.
During the Greek Civil War, on April 3, 1949, Partsalidis became head of the Provisional Democratic Government formed by the Communists in areas under their effective control, succeeding Nikolaos Zachariadis.
He was the final head of the Provisional Government, and remained in office until October 1950 (in exile after August 28, 1949). At the Battle of Grammos-Vitsi the communist Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) was defeated and he was forced into exile to Soviet Union.
In October 1971, Partsalidis was arrested by the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 along with Charalambos Drakopoulos. Partsalidis died in Athens on June 22, 1980.
He published his memoirs in 1978.
This article contains text from the article Dimitrios Partsalidis at Phantis, a GFDL wiki.