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The EAM/ELAS supporters revolt in the Greek fleet stationed in Alexandria was the warning shot of what was going to happen to Greece after the liberation.
Mr.Papandreou, who was not the extreme right, has tried unsuccessfully to bring the EAM/ELAS movement into the post war government with no success. In Athens, tensions were high and who started the shooting in 1944 is really immaterial.
The ensuing civil war and the damage to Greek interests at the end of the WWII, was a tragedy that I am not sure how it could have been avoided with the leadership on both sides and the passions of that time.
The divisions brought on to the Greek society by the Nazi occupation were unbridgeable.
The guerillas that fought the occupiers could not compromise with the people that have been in Alexandria or stayed in the sidelines during the occupation.
The role of the British in suppressing the EAM/ELAS thrust into Athens it may be distasteful and politically incorrect now, but on hindsight, this has saved the Greeks untold suffering under a communist government, which like the rest of East Europe, may have survived until the fall of the USSR.
Furthermore, during my limited studies on the subject, I have not come across about any definite position of the EAM/ELAS movement about the border claims of the Northern neighbors on Greece after WWII.
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