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The Greek Civil War (Greek: ? E??????? [?*??????], o Emfýlios [Pólemos], "the Civil War") took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communist-dominated uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece. The opposition declared a people's republic, the Provisional Democratic Government of Greece, which was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military branch, the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). The rebels were supported by Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. With the support of the United Kingdom and United States, the Greek government forces ultimately prevailed...

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bron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War


Hier ook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsKYV03taI

De communisten hadden zichzelf bevrijd van de nazi's, en vormden de werkelijke regering. Alleen hadden de Britten een andere regering op het oog. De Britten zetten een Griekse puppet regering op, in Cairo, bijna op koloniale wijze, zoals ze ook deden in Egypte, etc. Met Sovjet-hulp kwam er een regering van nationale eenheid in Griekenland, maar al gauw werden de communisten uit de regering gezet, geëxecuteerd, en ook talloze burgers, vooral op het platteland, die de Britten ervan verdachten de communisten geholpen te hebben, werden vermoord of verdreven, hun dorpen platgebrand. De Britten konden de oorlogsinspanningen tenslotte niet meer alleen aan, en de Amerikanen namen over. De Amerikanen bleven de Griekse regering volledig domineren en benoemen, en zaten ook achter het kolonelsregime, toen een linkse regering dreigde verkozen te raken, net zoals in Latijns-Amerika.
"Freedom and democracy", maar alleen voor "de onzen" natuurlijk, en alleen als het volk "voor de onzen kiest".
Dus wie zegt dat de Britten en Amerikanen nooit landen zijn binnengevallen in Europa om hun regime op te leggen, die liegt.


In March 1944, EAM established the Political Committee of National Liberation (Politiki Epitropi Ethnikis Apeleftherosis, or PEEA), in effect a third Greek government to rival those in Athens and Cairo "to intensify the struggle against the conquerors... for full national liberation, for the consolidation of the independence and integrity of our country... and for the annihilation of domestic Fascism and armed traitor formations." PEEA was dominated by, but not composed exclusively of Communists.

The movement threatened Allied unity, angering Great Britain and the United States. British and Greek troops loyal to the exiled government moved to suppress the PEEA. Approximately 5,000 Greek soldiers and officers were disarmed and deported to prison camps. After the mutiny, Allied economic aid to the EAM almost stopped. Later on, through political screening of the officers, the Cairo government created the III Greek Mountain Brigade, composed of staunchly anti-communist personnel, under the command of Brigadier Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos.[citation needed]

In May 1944, representatives from all political parties and resistance groups came together at the Lebanon Conference under the leadership of Georgios Papandreou, in hopes of forming a government of national unity. Despite EAM's accusations of collaboration made against all other Greek resistance forces and charges against EAM-ELAS members of murders, banditry and thievery, the conference ended with an agreement (the National Contract) for a government of national unity consisting of 24 ministers (6 to be EAM members). The agreement was made possible by Soviet directives to KKE to avoid harming Allied unity, but did not resolve the problem of disarmament of resistance groups.[citation needed]

With the German withdrawal, ELAS units had taken control of the countryside and most cities.

On December 1,British officer Ronald Scobie issued a proclamation calling for the dissolution of ELAS. Command of ELAS was KKE's greatest source of strength, and KKE leader Siantos decided that the demand for ELAS's dissolution must be resisted.

On December 1, 1944, the Greek government of "National Unity" under Papandreou and Scobie announced an ultimatum for the general disarmament of all guerrilla forces by 10 December excluding the tactical forces (the III Greek Mountain Brigade and the Sacred Band);[29] and also a part of EDES and ELAS that would be used, if it was necessary, in Allied operations in Crete and Dodecanese against the remaining German army. As a result, on December 2 six ministers of the EAM, most of whom were KKE members, resigned from their positions in the "National Unity" government. The EAM called for a general strike and announced the reorganization of the Central Committee of ELAS. A demonstration, forbidden by the government, was organised by EAM on December 3.


An order of General Scobie signed and printed on the government's newspaper "? ?????" (December 6), enforcing the government's ultimatum (December 1) for the immediate disarmament of all guerrilla forces
The demonstration involved at least 200,000 people[30] marching in Athens on Panepistimiou Street towards the Syntagma Square. British tanks along with police units had been scattered around the area, blocking the way of the demonstrators.[31] Shooting began when the marchers had arrived at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, above the Syntagma Square. They originated from the building of the General Police Headquarters, from the Parliament (?????), from the Hotel Grande Bretagne (where international observers had settled), from other governmental buildings and from policemen on the street.[32][33][34]

Among many testimonies, N. Farmakis, a member of the Organization X participating in the shootings, described that he heard the head of the police Evert giving the order to open fire on the crowd.
A total of 28 protesters were killed that day, and hundreds were injured.[36] This signaled the beginning of the Dekemvriana (Greek: ???????????, "the December events"), a 37-day period of full-scale fighting in Athens between EAM fighters and smaller parts of ELAS and the forces of the British army.

On December 4, Papandreou gave his resignation to Scobie, who rejected it. By December 12, ??? was in control of most of Athens and Piraeus. The British, outnumbered, flew in the 4th Indian Infantry Division from Italy as emergency reinforcements.

This outbreak of fighting between Allied forces and an anti-German European resistance movement while the war in Europe was still being fought was a serious political problem for Churchill's coalition government of left and right. It caused much protest in the British press and the House of Commons. To prove his peacemaking intentions to the public, Churchill went to Athens on December 25 to preside over a conference in the Hotel Grande Bretagne in which Soviet representatives also participated, to bring about a settlement.

Between 1945 and 1946, anticommunist forces allegedly killed about 1,190 communist civilians and tortured many others. Entire villages that had helped the partisans were attacked.

The king's return to Greece reinforced British influence in the country. Nigel Clive, then a liaison officer to the Greek Government and later the head of the Athens station of MI6, stated, "Greece was a kind of British protectorate, but the British ambassador was not a colonial governor". There were to be six changes of prime ministers within just two years, an indication of the instability that would characterise the country's political life.

Rural peasants were caught in the crossfire. When DSE partisans entered a village asking for supplies, citizens were supportive (in previous years, EAM could count on two million members across the whole country) or did not resist. When government troops arrived at the same village, citizens who had supplied the partisans were immediately denounced as communist sympathizers and usually imprisoned or exiled. In rural areas, the government also used a strategy, which had been advised by US advisers, of evacuating villages under the pretext that they were under direct threat of communist attack. That would deprive the partisans of supplies and recruits and simultaneously raise antipathy towards them.[44]

he Greek Army now numbered about 90,000 men and was gradually being put on a more professional footing. The task of re-equipping and training the army had been carried out by its fellow Western Allies. By early 1947, however, Britain, which had spent £85 million in Greece since 1944, could no longer afford this burden. US President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States would step in to support the Greek government against Communist pressure. That began a long and troubled relationship between Greece and the United States. For several decades to come, the US ambassador advised the king on important issues, such as the appointment of the prime minister.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War