<< You don't know anyone
>who thinks that the Greek people would have been better without Churchill
>stabbing the resistance in the back? Then you don't know all that many
>people...
>
>Nick Mamatas
So are you one of the people who thinks that Greece would have been a
happier place since WWII if its politics had been more like those of
Bulgaria?
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Nick, Brad
It is my understanding that the Greek civil war tore a giant hole in that country's society - maybe now it is recovered? It is pretty clear that the repression had a lof of support from the UK/US alliance. Didn't Churchill want D-Day to occur in Greece to prevent a southern flank for Stalin? The US misunderstood the PKA to be a front for Stalin; in actuality (I think) this had a lot to do with the infighting between the royalists and the communists.
I'm not sure what the alternative would have looked like had Greece had a "socialist" gov't for the entire post war period. The 73-74 certainly didn't make things better, though I remember that my mother didn't have to bargain over every item in the food store when we visited there afterward. Is that "progress" to live in a society that makes Guliani look like Marx?
Jason