Famous People with Name Gorki

Gorki Águila            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Gorki Águila: is a Cuban punk rock musician and dissident, who has publicly criticized communism. He is the leader of the Porno para Ricardo band.Initially, his band was well-received by the Cuban authorities, being even featured on television, but as his lyrics became bolder, he was banned from performing in public and the songs being put on the internet with help of a friend from abroad.[2]

Milan Gorkic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Milan Gorkic: was a Croatian high-ranking communist activist and leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in exile from 1932 until 1937. He was killed by the NKVD in November 1937 during the Great Purge. Gorkic was an excellent student, and while in high school, he was arrested for expanding communist propaganda leafs. After he left the prison, he joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in Sarajevo in 1919. He become member of the SKOJ's Central Committee in 1924, but was soon expelled from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, after which he become representative of the CPY in the Comintern in Moscow. After three years working as a representative, he was elected to the Presidium of the Executive Concil of the Communist International in Moscow (EXCCIM) in 1927. At the same time he worked in EXCCIM's secretariat as a commisioner for the Balkan countries. Gorkic returned to Yugoslavia for several times, but when he was elected as leader of the CPY, he was forbbiden to return in Yugoslavia because of safety reason. From 1932 he led Central Committe of the CPY in emigration, in Vienna, Paris and Moscow. From 1932 until 1936 he stayed in Moscow only for three months. In 1935 he was a delegate on the Sevent Congress of Comintern where he was elected into the Executive Committee. At the beginning of 1937 he was in Paris and for the last time in his life, he reported to his wife in Germany. During a struggle for leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito was an agent of the NKVD, a Soviet secret police. In order to replace Gorkic, who previously brought Tito in Moscow and held him under patronage, Tito made an report about Gorkic to NKVD. Gorkic recieved an emergency call from Moscow to return and make an report. When he arrived, NKVD showed him a large indicment writen on 70 pages, and accused him for trotskyism. On 23 October he was arrested and imprisoned in Lubyanka. On 1 November Gorkic was executed. After Tito took leadership over the CPY, Gorkic was posthumously expelled from the party. After Joseph Stalin's death, Soviet Union rehabilitated Gorkic.