Ploutis Servas

Ploutis Servas (Πλουτής Σέρβας in Greek; 22 May 1907 – 14 February 2001), was a Cypriot former politician, reporter, and author.

In 1929–1934, he studied political and social sciences at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West in Moscow.

He returned to Cyprus in the 1930s and had to sign a declaration saying he would not be involved in politics in order to be allowed to set foot in the country.

He became a member of the Secretariat of the illegal Communist Party of Cyprus (CPC) and founder and first general secretary of AKEL (1941–1945).

There were no crematoria in Cyprus and there was a heated debate between those supporting the availability of cremation as an alternative and those (mainly religious Orthodox Christians) who disapproved of it.