Post-Civil War
After the end of Joseph Stalin's era, Markos Vafiadis was restored into KKE and was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the party. However, new disagreement with the party leadership led to his removal from office in January 1958 and to his second ousting from the KKE in June 1964. After the party split in 1968, the so called "interior" (εσωτερικού) faction of KKE restored him. In March 1983, ending his 23 years long exile in the Soviet Union, he returned to Greece and Chios. Later on, he published his Memoirs. In November 1989, and in April 1990, he was honorarily elected into the Greek parliament through the nationwide list of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement. This was denounced by conservative circles, with the journalist Eleni Vlahou calling it a futile attempt to rehabilitate a "senile criminal".
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