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Zisis Hristu Pazzikas (;) is a Greek officer, journalist and publisher.

Biography
Pacikas was born in the Vlach mountain village of Pipilista in 1910. At 18, he served in the air force and later in the gendarmerie. He was involved in the Italo-Greek War in 1940. After the defeat of Greece from Germany in the spring of 1941, Pacikas participated in Almiros in one of the first major sabotage against the Germans, the burning of a large amount of wheat intended for the German army. He became a negelagen by boat trying to get to the Middle East to join the free Greek army. They reach Turkey and from there arrives in Palestine, where he joins the Greek army and with it goes to Cairo, where he participates in fighting, including the Battle of El Alamein. He served as an officer at the Greek Air Force headquarters in Cairo. He married a Greek woman in Cairo (1943) who had four children.

After the release of Greece for some time, he was an air attaché at the Greek Embassy in Cairo and participated in diplomatic missions in Asia and Africa. He then served in various units of the Air Force in Attica. For the overall activity in the Air Force he received many distinctions.

He was fired of his own volition by the rank of squadron commander in 1958 and after 3 years in 1961 he settled with his family in Alexandria, Gida, Imamiya. There he founded the first newspaper in Urumlaka, which was originally printed in the printing house of Frurio theis Imatiyas (The Guard of Imatia) in Ber, and later with a loan he made his own printing house in Alexandria, in which in 1961 his entire family worked.

The newspaper is distributed with bicycles and metpeds and to the outermost villages of Urumlaka in winter. Thus, he maintains direct contact with readers who feel that they already have their own voice.

In 1965, Pazzikas decided to expand his business and moved to the capital of Noma Bér. Thus, on January 18, 1965 came the first issue of Laos, which impressed with its good materials and refined appearance. His main associates are his four children and the first director of the newspaper, the lawyer George Hyonydis, who also assists him in He moved his printery to Ber, on Metropolis Street. In 1966 he became director of the Technical School in the city.

With significant supporters in his new efforts, the four children and his main partners and the first director of writing, Mr. Georgi Chionidis (partner in Alexandria), transferred the printing house to Veria originally Metropolis Street, a sub-member fund and then carried in Veria and his family. At the same time (year 1966) and appointed director of the Techkum Apprentice Veria (Ministry of Labour), where he worked with courage and did School technical standard college not only for FA but also for the whole country.

In 1968 the pressure of the pre