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An EAM-ELAS partisan during the resistance to the Nazi occupation in World War II, Florakis was on the losing side of the Greek Civil War that followed the liberation of the country, and subsequently left the country.
His first public performances were during the German occupation of Greece, when he frequently used heroic themes in order to strengthen the morale of the population.