![]() ![]() The memory of the Greek civil war, like those who waged it, dies very hard.įor Nicholas Gage, the Greek civil war is not a memory but a vivid presence. They had outlasted even the dazed soldiers of Hirohito who had turned themselves in, in the Pacific, a few years before. In 1974, when that junta destroyed itself in an effort to annex the island of Cyprus, two Communist guerrillas emerged from the mountains of Crete to give themselves up. Many of the prisoners it left behind (and the government forces were not famous for taking prisoners) had been detained until the 1960s – some to be reincarcerated when the military junta took power in 1967. Ever since, it had been unlawful for its members to return. In that war, he had commanded the ‘Democratic Army’, which bore its Communist arms with extreme tenacity until, abandoned by Joseph Stalin and by ‘the people’, it melted over the borders of Bulgaria and Albania. ![]() ![]() It was the first time that he had left the Soviet Union since the end of the Greek civil war more than a quarter century previously. ON FRIDAY March 25 this year, the day on which Greeks celebrate their deliverance from the Turks in 1829, General Markos Vafiadis put down at Athens airport. ![]()
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