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285:, Stavridis was appointed advisor to the Ministry of the Presidency of the Government. During this time he participated in the establishment of a clandestine anti-communist committee, which was funded by the government and aimed at combating the
161:. In the 3rd Extraordinary Congress in December 1924, he was re-elected to the Central Committee, and along with Pouliopoulos played a leading role in the party's renaming as the "Communist Party of Greece" and its full adoption of the
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political parties, but the other members of the leadership rejected his proposal and remained steadfast adherents of the party's commitment to revolutionary struggle. In
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