When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill’s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seeds for the rise of the far right in Greece today
Twenty-eight civilians, mostly young boys and girls, were killed and hundreds injured. “We had all thought it would be a demonstration like any other,” Patríkios recalls. “Business as usual. Nobody expected a bloodbath.”
Britain’s logic was brutal and perfidious: Prime minister Winston Churchillconsidered the influence of the Communist Party within the resistance movement he had backed throughout the war – the National Liberation Front, EAM – to have grown stronger than he had calculated, sufficient to jeopardise his plan to return the Greek king to power and keep Communism at bay. So he switched allegiances to back the supporters of Hitler against his own erstwhile allies.
Čemu onda otpor Hitleru ako je komunizam bio veći neprijatelj? Trebali su se udržuit protiv Sovjeta na početku.
Hrpa kretena pogotovo Churchill, Hitler mu je poslao valjda 11 nagodbi za mir.
Prije nego je rat i bio gotov počela je izgradnja Njemačke upravo kao glavnog borca proitv Istočnog komunističkog bloka.