the day has come for me to write about December
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as soon as the Germans left Athens in October 1944, the whole country was literally in the hands of EAM and ELAS.
controlled over the country's 90%....
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the British were losing their protectorate, which until then was Greece.
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by then everyone who ruled the country was at their best,
friendly
and at worst (most of them) slavishly attached to the English
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so
and for the country to return to the pre-war conditions, the sworn King George should FIRST of all return to his throne.
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except that the EAM had declared that they were fighting for the Germans to leave
AND
so that the king does NOT return without a referendum first
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but in a possible referendum the king would lose badly.
and in possible elections EAM would have won huge percentages (over 70%, the British embassy said at the time).
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so what?;
e what else,
the king and the government should return and take over the country against the will of the people as it has been done for so many years
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but the difficult thing was that now ELAS had a ready-made powder-smoked army
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finally agreed to surrender the ELAS, the EDES and the third mountain brigade
(of Rimini) their armament and to be recruited from the beginning
but how could the ELAS accept such a thing?;
was three times the size of the EDES and the third mountain brigade together.
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nevertheless
the leaders of EAM agree...
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but (now the good stuff begins) the then Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou
without informing them
violates the terms and asks ONLY the ELAS to hand over the weapons
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the EAMites become furious and instruct no one to surrender their weapons
while they themselves resign from the Papandreou government
Thus Papandreou remains in his government only with the corrupt.
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General Scobee proclaims himself protector of Athens and takes the chariots to the streets.
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EAM calls the Athenian people to a large peaceful gathering in Syntagma Square on Sunday 3 December
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Papandreou, with the agreement of the police chief
Angelos Evert, initially allows the EAMI gathering.
but later Scobie pulls their ear and they ban it.
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The EAMites react.
«in Athens, even the Germans were unable to ban the demonstrations».
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On Sunday morning, despite the ban and threats, the EAMites
flood the streets.
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it is the largest demonstration ever held in the capital.
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there are dozens of testimonies from foreign journalists and third country politicians that the crowd was unarmed and just singing in the streets...
it is of no particular importance to refer to each of them individually here,
I've written them before.
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and then shots are fired and some of the crowd fall dead
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Late on Sunday night, December 3, armed militants of ELAS Athens occupy police stations and disarm police officers.
but they don't continue... the EAM's mandate is to go as calmly as possible
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the next day, Monday 4 December, is the funeral of the 30 victims of the rally.
EAM declares a general strike, and everything comes to a standstill.
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Athens is becoming a paralyzed city.
There was no
water,
throttle,
electric.
All the shops are closed.
There were no cinemas, theatres or public transport.
The employees of the town hall, the ministries and the banks have left their posts.
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Scobee enforces martial law.
Illegally.
Only the government can do so
and only under certain conditions.
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the crowd is bigger than the last one but at the end of the funeral we have more shooting and dead people
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is the beginning of the December
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now,
why did the British want the murders? why they wanted conflict;;;;
to show public opinion that there is unrest in the capital of Greece
and that it is imperative that British troops go there to enforce order
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and not only that
Before the war was even over, Churchill, against the recommendations of his generals.
telling him that things are still critical in Italy and that it is impossible to weaken the front
he,
alone, he takes it upon himself to order troops to leave Italy and even come to Greece to participate in the December riots.
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the war would sooner or later be over
was now a given.
they had to fix the post-war situation now
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if ELAS had only the corrupt and governmental opponents then it would surely win
and the British would have to negotiate with them
whereas if he won, they would do whatever they wanted to their protectorate
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as they did
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after the victory in December followed:
the (despicable) Treaty of Varkiza
the return of George II to the throne without a referendum
took over and ruled by the bitches of the past
and when they held the referendum a year and a half later it was little worse than the violent and fraudulent elections of 1961.
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P.S. In all this time the mistakes or rather, the crimes of the KKE leadership that controlled EAM were multiple and enormous.
for 2 reasons
1. because the leaders were for the most part foolish, stupid and ridiculous little people
2. because the logic of the KKE at that time was to serve the will of the USSR without taking into account the good of Greece...
the only thing that mattered was Stalin's order, and they had to serve it slavishly.
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PS2. the picture taken from Menelaus Charalabidis' post about the December events...
of the most authoritative scholar of the period
