“THE PROTESTORS WERE PROCLAIMING THEIR APPRECIATION FOR THE ALLIES’ UNWAVERING SUPPORT IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THEIR AXIS OCCUPIERS”
The power vacuum left in the wake of the Axis retreat in 1944 was immediately contested by two major political and military groups. One party claiming power was the communist National Liberation Front (EAM) supported by its military organisation the National People’s Liberation Army (ELAS). The EAM had previously been closely supported by the British during the Nazi occupation.
Opposing the communists was Georgios
