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Socialist Youth of Athens played a leading role in the proceedings of the founding conference of the Socialist Workers Party of Greece (SEKE), the predecessor of the Communist Party of Greece, which took take place in Piraeus in November 1918. Forming the left
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After the end of the conference, Ligdopoulos together with
Alexakis at the end of October 1920 arriveed in Odessa and board a ship to return to Greece. They were murdered during the journey to the Black Sea by Turkish smugglers of Laz origin, and their bodies were dumped near the Bulgarian coast.
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as a student of mathematics in 1916. In the same year, Ligdopoulos together with his fellow students and friends, founded the "Socialist Youth of Athens", which gathered many young people in its ranks, especially after the outbreak of the
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and to include the SEKE in its ranks. Ligdopoulos was chosen for this mission because he spoke French and was an ardent supporter of joining the
Comintern.
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of the political trend of the conference together with Nikos
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There is no exact date of their death, although different ones have been written from time to time (October 21 or 25 or 27, 1920).
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