Giorgos Mpoutsinis

Giorgos Boutsinis (Erithres, Attica 1914 - Athens 1981) was a fighter in the National Resistance. He served as a non-commissioned officer in the Infantry on the Metaxas Line during the German invasion. After the capitulation, he was temporarily assigned to the Gendarmerie, where he provided cover for the formation of the EAM-ELAS in the villages of Thebes and Western Attica. In February 1943, he became a guerrilla in Parnitha under the pseudonym Nikitas to avoid forced transfer to a collaborationist unit. He held various leadership positions in the Attica Battalion (I/34) of ELAS and the National Militia until the Varkiza Agreement. In 1946, he was preemptively exiled to Paros, and with the official start of the Civil War, he was demoted and imprisoned in Gyaros and Makronisos. In 1947, he was sentenced to death in absentia while being detained. He escaped and returned to the mountains with the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). After the defeat, he fled to the Soviet Union, where he studied law and mechanical engineering in construction. In 1968, he moved to Yugoslavia and repatriated in 1975.