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By 1940, KKE had almost collapsed after Metaxas' dictatorship had imprisoned many of its leadership and members. By October, half of the party's two thousand members were in prison or in exile. The Security Police proved successful in dismantling the party structure; not only had it imprisoned the leadership, but it created a fake series of ...
The extent of such involvement remains contentious and unclear; some emphasize that the KKE had in total 400,000 members (or 800,000, according to some sources) immediately prior to December 1944 and that during the Civil War, 100,000 ELAS fighters, mostly KKE members, were imprisoned, and 3,000 were executed.
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By October 1940, half of the party's two thousand members were in prison or in exile. The Security Police (the secret fascist police) proved successful in dismantling the party structure; not only had it imprisoned the leadership, but it created a fake series of Rizospastis , the Central Committee newspaper.
According to the British Legal Mission in Greece, of the 16,700 prison inmates on 1 October 1945, 7,077 were common law criminals, 6,027 were left-wing prisoners imprisoned after the Dekemvriana, and only 2,896 were collaborators.
Beginning of the Greek Civil War Archival sources and memoirs have established that well before the end of the occupation of Greece in the Second World War many of the KKE’s highest ofªcials had decided that the time had come to seize power.7 This conviction 27 The Greek Civil War (1944–1949) and the International Communist System 6.
Markos Vafiades (born Jan. 28, 1906, Asia Minor [now in Turkey]—died Feb. 22, 1992, Athens, Greece) was a Greek insurgent, founding member of the Greek Communist Party, and commander of the communist-led Democratic Army in the civil war against the Greek government (1946–49). Vafiades worked as a labourer in Istanbul and fled to Greece as a ...
The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people. When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a second war, more vicious than that fought against the Axis powers. If eight percent of the population of seven million had died or been killed during WWII, the Greek civil war (GCW) brought that ...
