resh from the embarrassment of the Varkiza Agreement, and the disbanding of ELAS, many communists who still believed in the goal of a communist Greece retreated to the EAM and ELAS strongholds in the Greek mountains. Without a centralising force, there was little sense of organisation in communist resistance post-Dekemvriana. After those bloody events, and with a new prime minister in London, the British also scaled back their involvement in Greece, continuing to hold Athens in support of the
