4. Krikor Badrossian

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   Krikor Badrossian was an Armenian communist politician. He was a musician by profession. Badrossian arrived in Baghdad from Lebanon in 1937, where he joined the Iraqi Communist Party.^[1] He became a Central Committee member of the party.^[1] Badrossian headed the Armenian section of the party.^[1][2] In January 1950 he was arrested, along with many other communist leaders, in a police raid.^[3] In 1953 the Iraqi government
   expelled him to Lebanon.^[4]
   

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Robert Alan Fernea (1991). The Iraqi revolution of 1958: the old social classes revisited. Tauris. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-85043-318-7.