Sartre, Paul Éluard, Nazim Hikmet and others -- asked for the cancellation of the military tribune's verdict. Four prisoners were taken from Kallithea on the early morning of Sunday, 30 March 1952, and executed in the Goudi camp. The sentences of the other co-defendants of Beloyannis were commuted to life imprisonment, and by the mid-1960s,all were released from prison. Beloyannis became one of the great heroes of the Greek resistance, and a symbolic victim of the authoritarian post-war establishment. His name was given to the village of Beloiannisz, Hungary, which housed Greek political refugees who lived in exile from the end of the civil war (1949) until they were allowed to return to Greece by the first Andreas Papandreou government in the early 1980s. Writings In his last letter, written from death-row, Beloyannis mentions two books that he appears to have written on the economic development of Greece and the country's history of literature. The manuscripts of the former were published in 2010 under the title Foreign Capital in Greece (Το Ξένο Κεφάλαιο στην Ελλάδα, To Kseno Kefaleo stin Ellada). Through the detailed analysis of Greece's external borrowing, its history is presented as one of subjection to foreign powers and financial institutions who ended up controlling most of its economy and resources to the dismay of the working class. Cultural references Pablo Picasso created a sketch named The Man with the Carnation honouring Beloyannis, inspired by a portrait of him. Peter de Francia painted The Execution of Beloyannis in 1953. It was sold to a private collector in 2011 by James Hyman Gallery It has since become part of the Tate collection. Nikos Tzimas' movie The Man with the Carnation (1980). Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet wrote a poem called The Man with the Carnation in 1952 about Beloyannis. See also Elli Pappa (1920-2009), Greek writer and activist, partner of Nikos Beloyannis Beloiannisz, a village in Hungary named after him References External links 1915 births 1952 deaths People from Amaliada Greek atheists Stalinism Anti-revisionists Communist Party of Greece politicians Greek People's Liberation Army personnel Democratic Army of Greece personnel Exiles of the Greek Civil War History of Greece (1949–1974) Prisoners sentenced to death by Greece Executed Greek people People executed by Greece by firing squad People executed for treason against Greece 20th-century executions by Greece