Why did Britain Attack the Greeks in 1944? | Animated History 

Could u do a video on the football war

Video on the football war?

Early

Can u do a video about the invasion of Norway

Quality is fixed PAGMAN!

That's a reference to a oversimplification channel

oversimplified moment

dude... VERY COOL

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

@@legolas-xu6ou apply cold water to burn

Churchill was the diet version of Hitler

another reason why churchill wasnt as nice as people remember him...

@@mariosvourliotakis He was a despicable war mongering racist. He was lucky Hitler and Stalin were on the world stage at the same time as him, otherwise we would be discussing the Churchillian genocides in WW2

@@mariosvourliotakis I totally agree. To me he was a cynic who didn't care how many innocent civilians died in occupied countries as long as it served British interests. The best example of this is perhaps the Bengal famine to which he definitely contributed the most from the British side.

@@herzog1857 He still got through the Second World War though, no matter how brash or harsh he was, he still got a ton of crap done and how I see it, saved Britain.

@@johnmcdonald9295 So is you’re economy 😎

@@johnmcdonald9295 Ok

We did ww2 and civil war in great detail, much more detail than this video, what kind of school did you go to?

@@johnmcdonald9295 ur not Greek so go away troll

@@nermainmerl6108 Well, these things are later on in the curriculum, and the teachers, being very far behind didnt have time to cover them, thats why. Greek Public schools arent the greatest...

He does a fairly good job...go listen the kings and generals channel butchering Greek names...

@@dimitrisoikonomou3568 bri'ish people be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤡🤡

@@kingofohio5689 Oi, stop that, or I'll steal the rest of the Parthenon.

@@randombrit4504 only if you know how to properly pronounce foreign names and words

@@kingofohio5689 ...Is this an American talking? Ironic. I wonder how many Americans could even point out Greece on a map...

Human nature never changes

@@totallyormalpinoyguy1998 War. War never changes.

Δεν ήταν εμφυλιος, εάν είσαι κομουνιστής δεν είσαι Έλληνας

Nah commies aint no humans.

War changes, just not your kind of change, if it never changed your military would still be shooting flintlocks and firing cannon shells at the attackers.

That's a fuckin' power move

@@enternamehere4124 That is Sir Christopher Lee

I'm going to use that :D

Of course they spelled it correctly KKE, the English using the Greek alphabet which the Latin is based also. What is to be excited about it? Many Western languages are based in Greek and using thousands of Greek words in their vocabulary.

Is this not what led up to that event? If I'm incorrect so be it I'm willing to learn.

Thanks, I wanted to ask the same thing.

The heavy bombardment of piraeus by the allies and the heavy casualties that got downplayed to a mere 300 dead when it was thousands wasnt mentioned either,which is one of the events that caused friction between the greek and allied forces. Fun fact: to this day at piraeus people doing renovations are still digging out american bombs and dead.

The western history books totally ignore the fact that they had made a treaty with Stalin, giving the Soviets total control over what became the Eastern Block nations in exchange for the US controlling the rest of Europe including Greece. They prefer to insinuate that the Russians grabbed all these nations. After repeatedly exalting the Soviet Union as a great nation and a great ally, near the end of the war the US and Britain were already planning a war against Russia. In fact after the war ended, the west started sending numerous sabotage missions into the Soviet Union, called operation nightingale. They also recruited many ex NAZI intelligence officers who were on the Eastern front into US intelligence, fast tracking their immigration to the US, called operation paper clip.

Uncle Joe respected the percentages agreement he had signed with Churchill in the Moscow conference in October of 1944. When in February 1948 a committee of Greek communists met with Stalin in order to ask for help for their cause, Uncle Joe replied with the infamous "свернуть!" (svernut'!), i.e. "roll it up! (end it!). It wasn't Stalin who backed the Communists in the Greek Civil War but the Yugoslavs (Tito) and the Albanians (Hoxha). They seeked a secession of Greek Macedonia & Thrace, a merging with the newly created "Macedonian Socialist Republic" in Yugoslavia and the creation of an independent Peoples' Republic of Balkans according to the Yugoslav or Albanian pattern, per the decisions of the 5th national committee of the Communsit Party of Greece. This led to the voting and implementing of Emergency Law 509/1947 by the Greek government that considered those who aspired or enforced the secession of Greek Macedonia & Thrace, as perpetrators of a "High Treason"

Yes

He didnt talk about the Greek army which went to North Africa and was mainly there where it was fighting the axis powers.

And a Greek commie will still defend the ΔΣΕ/EAM monsters...

*the glories of Communism*

and all these commies sympathizers just wanna twist the real facts

Terrible. How many have suffered similarly in areas in government hands... Power makes men inhuman.

My mother supported the left, but she also saw the communist crimes infront of her eyes. My family were living in Plaka near the historic house of Kostis Palamas the poet. The red cross was bringing them food and all the neighbours were giving some of their own food for Kostis Palamas who was ill (n.b. died in 1943). There was a particularly nice young police officer of the red cross who was helping the people survive the famine and he was very popular. Then after the war my mother went out one day for milk. It was outside the "Cine Paris" - known to all who have visited Athens and Plaka. There a communist patrol managed to make their way down from the rearside of the Akropolis hill and arrested the nice young policeman and executed him on the spot. Many years later I saw that man's name engraved in a marble plaque in Plaka police station.

True, it was Tito and NOT Stalin that aided the communists here due to that agreement.

Ah and I was wondering, why Stalin was not mentioned even once in the video, thinking that somehow the USSR must have helped them. That probably also furthered Tensions between Tito and Stalin themselves with Tito going against the orders of Stalin in that case. The Greeks were lucky, that the Soviets didn't decide to intervene in it, if they would've, it maybe could've blown into a full scale civil war, taking Tens if not Hundreds of Thousands of Casualties, when both Cold War Blocs would've thrown their weight in.

@@MagiconIce That's so true also if the Soviets had got involved Greece would most likely turned Communist as Stalin is more superior than Tito

@@MagiconIce Or, it might have stopped it in its tracks. Had they wanted to the Soviets could have pushed the Brits back to Egypt.

@@havocgr1976 actually no new documents that came to light show that stalin supplied german ww2 weapons to the communist and socialist groups through neighbouring countries so as to not be critisised for supporting the KKE

About the fun fact, no we dont celebrate the start of war (more like resistance) because wE LoVe wAr but because we felt free to answer to a super power(Italians and after Germans) no because WE DIDNT SURRENDER because THIS place is for Greeks and only we are Feeling free inside enough to tell to the face of a super power "no".Its about the resistance we and the feeling "of saying to their faces no" and not because we love war.I will make it simplier,we are celebrating OUR BALLS we showed for defending our homeland no matter the super power we face and not tHE beGgiNinG oF tHe wAr.

Cassually miss all the civilians kidnaped and the executios of the commies You know why the right wing happen its becouse the left exist

@@rgdevoner2344 i never said we celebrate the beginning of the war because "we love war". What I'd been taught is the same thing you say, that we celebrate the people's bravery and the unity with which they answered the call to arms. My point is, that whole narrative (although the fighters' bravery is admirable) is pretty much just an effort to save face. We would be celebrating the end of the war just like any other nation, if it weren't for our passion of fighting each other every chance we get. So we made up a nice little story about us being united in the face of tyranny, and thus we celebrate the beginning of the war. There's no reason to sugarcoat history, we're not perfect.

There are many books you can find about National Resistance if you are interested. I didn't like the education system either but RU-vid channels can not teach better from a book.

@@user-jf6yv8rj2s a video reading the book?

the monarchs of greece were always foreign and never british but you are close...

@@arcadeslum5882 never British ? Well if you want to play semantics all of the British monarch were never a British . Prince Phillip was from the same line . But it is a British monarch my friend. Next you will tell me that Charles is part Greek through his father . I love the snarkiness of the reply too, you must not be European. American ? If you want to reply and have a serious discussion do so , if you want snark and high school debating don’t bother . If you want to get down to it , there is no such thing as British, a mix race of essentially Germans . Angles are Germanic , Saxons were Germanic , Danes ultimately are an ofshoot of a Germanic tribes in the north. French are Germanic via Gaul and Spain are a mixture of Arab/North Africa and Germanic via Visigoth . Britain is a Petrie dish , USA is mainly German as well. So basically the most despicable people in the world , responsible for all the atrocities trace their lineage to a few barbarian hordes .

In fact they wanted to get rid of Stalin's attempt to establish a communist government in Greece.

My Father who had been involved in the Second World War joined up when he was only 17 years , his mother , my Grandmother went to the army and demanded he be sent home ,, my Father refused and stayed,, he was put on the guns defending Hull from the Nazi planes , he eventually went on to fight in North Africa, Italy and then sent to Greece . I asked him many years later that I had read his army record and what hat happened in Greece !!! I told my Father that he had lost his stripes for being drunk on duty !! He replied , Son , we didn’t know why we were sent there , the war was over , he was told it was to keep the peace between the so called communists and the royals !! He , along his mates were billeted with Greek family’s in and around Athens , I think he said in the small villages . He said , Son , the Greek family’s took us in and treated us like we were their Sons . One night their village was surrounded by Greeks who didn’t want the royals to be allowed back in Greece , the leader of the soldier’s surrounding them said ,, surrender your arms or we will kill everyone in the village , apparently, there was 3 Officers in charge of them, I have no idea 15:15 what was said but my Father and is fellow soldiers refused to fight and said to the Officers, the War is over , we have no right to fight the Greeks , they are just like us , the Greeks had fought bravely against their common enemies, the Nazis. They laid down their arms , and were took prisoner and led away . He and his Comrades eventually were rescued SIX months later in the Mountains of Northen Greece by the Greek Army , and who had killed and beheaded the Leader of the Greek soldier’s which was taken back to Athens . The Three British Officers and , “I don’t remember how many “ were all charged with Mutiny , the 3 Officers were reduced to the ranks and my Father was charged with being drunk on duty!!! I asked him if this was true , he said , Son , I refused to kill or injure a fellow man who believed in his Country, we had no right to be there , and I was treated like a Son by the Villagers. I don’t care . I personally met a Greek gentleman and after a long chat about the trouble in Greece ate the end of the War he asked me why I was asking him about the terrible times in Greece , he explained to me about the problems it all caused, brother against brother, Fathers against Son . So is asked this gentleman could I tell him about My Father and his Love for the Greeks . He was very surprised to hear the story and then he asked me , could I repeat this conversation with his Fsther who was by then a very old man and that his Father had written a book about those terrible times . I said off course . He replied , this story would help him to rethink his thoughts about the British Army in Greece . I hope this small story helps the cause of forgiveness through the pain caused by the terrible times that the Greek People went through. I remember the wonderful saying my Father said to me . Son , only Hero’s fight like the Greeks . RIP Dad ..

@@johnoughton7294 thank you so much for your contribution, we must keep the word of mouth alive.

Excellent comment! The vast majority THINKS it understands the ideology, the motives, the details. In actuality, it does not! To be able to "appreciate" Marx you need to read Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk and the whole Austrian school of economics (Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, etc) by doing so you'll realise that Marxism is more poetry and imagination than economics. BTW, my grandfather and his brother found themselves fighting each other in the same battle as members of the tactical army and a communist guerilla group, respectively, even though they were both leftists (I am definitely not).

@@C_R_O_M________ a worker to understand the class society, to feel the class exploitation... he has to read Marx ?????? ...awesome historical approach !!!!!! ...the Greek communists were not groups but the majority of the Greek people!! 85% of the Greek people were with the EAM and the Communist Party of Greece ... in 1945 the English and the former collaborators of the Germans had: 450,000 leftist prisoners ... 150,000 exiles and prisons ....16,000 executed (7,000 by military courts and 9,000 murdered by black terrorism) the EAM-ELAS-KKE had 420,000 members of the communist party ... 700,000 members of the EAM ... 150,000 rebels (50,000 permanent rebels and 100,000 reserves) .... at 1958 after the defeat of the Democrat of the army, five years after the executions of Belogiannis-Bloubidis and other fighters (with over 15,000 Greek left-wing political prisoners, brutal fascism with violence and white terrorism throughout the country) ... in the 1958 elections, the left party took 25% of the votes ... but even to this day the majority of the Greek people are with the Left (in one way or another) .....but what are the English feudal lords-murderers to understand from the French Enlightenment????...what...?

@@MrGEORG1964 whatever! Three of my relatives were in exile and got tortured (cat in sack and thrown to the sea- type of torture). That would be my grandfather, his brother and an uncle. I know very well how leftist the Greek society is. You might want to read the "Ευτυχώς ηττηθήκαμε σύντροφοι" of Lazarides just in case you retain an open mind. Yes, you need to read, not only Marx but his opposing economists (Marx wasn't exactly an economist, just a journalist with poetic imagination) like the whole Austrian school of economics. Geniuses like Hayek, Mises, Rothbard and the likes. Marx was 100% wrong and I can prove it to you in a short comment.

Στο Γράμμος που σκοτωθηκε ήταν ταγματασφαλιτης?Ο Ελλάς εκτελούσε προδότες και δοσίλογους.Αυτο θα πω μονο

@@C_R_O_M________ do you know the History of our country?..do you know who the Lazarides is ??? Lazaridis is the minor who was tried in the Belogianni trial and while the others were executed, he was saved..after 1960 he followed an anti-communist course (although their own relatives were killed by the fascists (Bulgarians, Germans, Greeks))...you must know that Lazaridis (like the father of the Trotskyist Yotopoulos) for many years was a professor of anti-communism ( ??????) in police-army-naval schools etc....the book you mention is the result of a dirty immoral life of a man who hates himself !!in Greece, several social activists of the 1930s and even of the revolutionary decades of the 1940s and 1950s were bent and several of them ended up as undercover agents, agents in the service of the police and the autocratic state of 1930-1960-1975 .. especially during the period when the chief of the police was the famous Maniadakis ... a very intelligent man who chased the Greek communists to the point of madness - obsessively (even though he later said that he admired them ...) ... Lazaridis became well-known for his articles in right-wing far-right newspapers and for his other books there are much worse than him in the Greek Left...

His video wasn't bad but not "excellent' as you claim. He left out a huge detaill.. the fake "Macedonians". Back then the US and UK used to claim no such ethnic group exists. Today they pretend those events didn't happen and engage in ethnic engineering like the Comintern. This video is just one more example of this evasion.

Great book, have read many quotes from it

Where can I find this book?

takis lazaridis taked money from deep state...

Ο Λαζαρίδης ανήκει σ' εκείνους τους κομμουνιστές που λύγισαν και πήγαν στο αντίπαλο στρατόπεδο. Τα περισσότερα που γράφει είναι υπερβολές και ψέματα. Ένα από αυτά γιατί πάντα μιλάω με αποδείξεις ΄είναι η άποψή του πως τα Δεκεμβριανά τα προκάλεσε το ΕΑΜ.

Frankly, staying in the "free" world brought no real benefit, neither economical nor political, to the average Greek, at least up to the the end of the Seventies. And, always frankly, even today there's little to rejoice for Greece.

But what of its support in the Russo-Ukrainian war, surely there is something to rally behind?

@@stefanodadamo6809 tbh the Greeks had a good time abusing their economy till it imploded on them.

This is true but only 50%...the other 50% lies on the fact that Greece became a protectorate of the USA and never really had the chance to get over the WW2 in financial and political terms. It is now a common secret among greek citizens that behind every party winning the elections, the american support was more than enough to ensure the results were for the american interests-even when "socialist" PASOK took the power, the Americans never lost anything of what thay had previously achieved on greek land and waters. Yes, we avoided the Soviet sphere with all its drawbacks but being under the american sphere didn't exactly bring democracy and prosperity...

@stefan I am as a Greek I can assure you

@Rogue S300 Fire Control Radar Signature in Aegean I am asking about World War One, better known if somewhat forgotten, the Great War. The confusion related to how the Allies of the era acted towards Greece a neural nation and the aftermath.y

The Greeks enthusiastically eventually involved themselves in the World War II, because they wanted to stop the Italian invasion. Did you forgot that?

@@antoniosdimoulas3566 I had watched the whole Great War from week to week, and I saw the issue Greece was having. Enemies on all sides if one choice or another was picked. And the Allies had pushed the issue, like forced it fight on our side or starve by our blockade. I want to know the aftermath about this.

​​@@antoniosdimoulas3566 They didn't get involved because they wanted to. They had to defend their country from the enemy invasion.

Exactly Greek army moven and fought in Northern africa. Greek civil war was very bad deadlier than the world war 2.

Italy is the reason Germany fell,

@pablothesus Do you not understand Italy's incompetence?

@@redwind5150 the nazis in germany lost because they declared war on the US and attacked the soviet union at the same time. Instead of just fighting the british. Had they ignored the soviets and the US they could have defeated the british

@@pellejohansen The Africa campaign because of Italy played a major role in the fall. Had Germany not bothered with Africa, it most likely would have held out longer.

@@redwind5150 the Germans were bound to failure due to their incompetent leadership by Hitler. And it wasn’t even only Hitlers fault, his so “amazing generals” fucked up multiple times, sometimes against hitlers wishes. They would of ran out of oil eventually. And their leadership was retarted. They were doomed to failure.

FARC is a cartel

I support this fully

Thats a very sad story...

nice quote from an egotistical maniac/failed admiral

"I'm the rhyme minister, fresh in hat and dinner jacket"

@@titanlord9267 “I’m an American stud, and you’re the British Elmer Fudd.” Theodore Roosevelt

@@lucianoosorio5942 smh

@@titanlord9267 "Your whole miserable country is the size of one state" Theodore Roosevelt

I prefer this fate over my country becoming another former Soviet-Bloc authoritarian shithole.

I prefer this fate over my country becoming another former Soviet-Bloc authoritarian shithole.

@@froggymusicman I already know how much power and influence a superpower have what I am saying is that it is not right to force another nation to follow your rules or policies a superpower= a bully

@@sulaymanbah123 Competition and domination is a major part of life always has been

@@mcmilk107 true but domination and competition between nations will end up just hurting the common people of those nations but not the rich

Yep rock collection like India, Australia and Canada

@@sfooter1692 they’re the larger rocks in the British collection!

@@froggymusicman I think he's talking about the marbles stolen from the Parthenon that the Brits have and refuse to return.

@@bryanemmel6516 And we ain't giving them back either. 😂😂😂

@@bryanemmel6516finders keepers, losers weepers

We don't know if he did. The organisation he was associated with at that time was active in Greece.

No

It's been covered extensively

Simple history covered it

Yeah bro

The fact that the video doesn’t even need good video quality means that the videos them selves are quality and great no matter what

144 for the true Balkan experience.

The commos were in bed with Tito and an Aegean Macedonia for Yugoslavia was on the cards They wanted Greece to be an Albania or Bulgaria.. what was not going to be gobbled up by Tito Total traitors

No dude that's stupid. Stalin wanted no change in the borders. Only tito did. Stalin wanted a Balkan federation, so he wanted to turn Greece into something like a federal republic by creating a state within a state, but after Tito stopped liking him he gave up on that plan as well

@@gnas1897Its not just a statement.There are records stating this fact by letters exchanged by Zachariadis and the USSR headquarters. Recently an academic (in Harvard I recall) presented these (USSR) records and the KKE party answered they are false (I guess they cannot accept responsibility).The actual point is there is no free lunch; they did not want just a communist Greek state,they wanted Greek Communist states with citizens of different origin Slavs Greeks etc.

​​@@MrThessalonikiman1 Zachariadis only declared the goal of an independent Macedonia in 1949 to attract more slavs to his army (because he knew that they were going to lose). Up until then, NOF fought for the freedom of Slavic Macedonians within the nation of Greece. The Comintern's resolution on Macedonia was supposed to create an independent Macedonia within a Balkan federation, not just randomly. Plus the Macedonia of the Balkan federation would also include Vardar Macedonia and Pirin. The reason for that is that the Comintern believed that this was the right move is because otherwise Macedonia would continue to be a warzone between Bulgarians, Greeks and Serbs, whereas unification would allow all tribes to live peacefully and equally on the territory of Macedonia. Now, the creation of a Macedonian nation was supposed to be a way to: 1.bring revolution to the Balkans 2. Give a solid national identity to population that didn't have one 3. Put the regional identity of the Macedonian peoples above the national one (to ensure unity in the future sovereign Macedonia) 4. To destroy "chauvinistic" and "imperialistic" ambitions by Bulgarians, Greeks and Serbs.

He should discuss the metapolitefsi

If you call Junta a dark part of Greek history than what you call 2010-2022?Just being curious...

​@@jcsv12345 so like today?

It is very well made. I will give you that

The Greek Junta of the colonels, was, essentially a CIA operation to prevent a communist takeover. It did a great disservice long term as it glorified communism in the eyes of the public. If a communist takeover had taken place at that time, it would have busted the myth of "humanitarian communism" that stills plagues the Greek political ecosystem, one of ideological ignorance.

it was a coup, helped by the US. they took control, there was martial law and no freedom, they claimed to build infrastructure, which all what the actual democratic government before them was building. they put in prison everyone who opposed them, who ever was thought as communist, and prison was not even the start, they tortured and eventually killed the majority of them. there was censorship everywhere, and they effed up the economy for the generations to come, by giving loans without return to everyone to gain support of the people, creating an enormous dept we still pay to this day. then they interfered with Cyprus affairs and we lost half of the island to turkish invasion, that cost the lives of many. all in all a dark period for 7 years with a huge death toll, and changed the mentality of people.

I am seeing in 720p🤔

I see all the options. Maybe some of them hadn't been generated when you watched this.

360p. Automatic.

sup :]

I’m here

Here.

Hi bro

Hi there

EAM founded by KKE...

True but the coalition that founded EAM was led by the KKE

yes the government was not only fascist but guys who never fought for their country and just came from cairo. KKE had to defend the freedom that people got with blood

@@neandros7They fought and killed for control and power, not freedom. Amazing you still believe this propaganda. You’d be a vassal state of the USSR had those clowns won. Today all they have is a stage in front of syntagma and brainwashed slobs to still make comments like this.

We had to drive out the Commies someway after all phile.

Πάντα έτσι ήμασταν πατριώτη... πάντα έτσι ήμασταν.

Πάντα αυτό δε κάναμε...?

Εδω στην επανασταση μολις απελευθερωσαμε την πελλοπονησο καναμε εμφυλιο 😅😅.

@@englandtownwalks891 Αρχοντες

Yes, British also killed babies and ate them.

There were/re no ethnic Macedonians. Check documents of that tome and you will never fnd "ethnic macedonians. The only Macedonians were/are Greeks. You were "macedonians" Tito who sought to undercut Bulgaria. You are bulgarians with a stolen name and history.

Everytime they did, the communist got stabbed in the back

Exactly

But there were many non-communists in EAM 😂 Collaborators were sometimes simply suspected collaborators, because desperate times require desperate measures.

why we, the Greek people, know so little about the civil war

Τι να σου μάθουν, κυρίως ο εμφύλιος αν σου μάθουν τα πραγματικά γεγονότα θα σου δημιουργήσει τις χειρότερες εντυπώσεις για τα δεξιά κόμματα

How do you know they are accurate?

I mean, the communists also had foreign support.

- British man larping as a greek person

@@xanx3572 μαλάκα

One of the great Anti-Fascist of Europe. Kudos.

Bro, your grandfather was a murderer? Dang.

@@jackboehm8408 My great grandfather, so my grandfather's father, was a political leader who is considered very, very controversial in Greece until this very day. He is not what one would call a murderer, but the Party's common decisions during the Civil War (who also were to a great extent following what Moscow told them) did lead to many deaths on both sides. He himself by the way wrote an open letter to the Greek people in 1940 while imprisoned on Corfu, asking them to fight got Greece's independence against the Italian powers that were coming for them, a fact that contributed to the utter humiliation of Mussolini in Europe's eyes. It is eye opening when one realizes that the letter was published in the national newspaper by then dictator Ioannis Metaxas, who was of the far-right but had declared that he would not let the Italian troops pass through Greece and thusly decided to help his political rival.

I am the creative director of the channel, i have to say that i am happy to see you in the comments sharing your great grandfathers story. We worked hard to keep our approach as neutral as possible. I believe we succeeded (taking into account that the channel’s origin is western)

@@hst615 Antifa is cringe

Phil's mother thought about for a time, but that was in the 30s. During the war Phil was already a commissioned Royal navy officer and in love with princess Elizabeth.

I bet you would also like next to their statues in every square a statue of Georgios Papadopoulos as such was the result of their actions in our country. Μπράβο πατριώτη!

Based, they saved us from becoming a poor stalinist state as the KKE was very much Stalinist (it's clear even from the style of their assassinations during the Civil war)

@@TheChaosPath Yeah, because being against a communist dictatorship clearly implies that I have to be in favor of a military Junta... Were you drunk or something when you wrote this?

Oh, so you would rather enjoy the workers paradise in Greece, sure a junta is terrible don’t get me wrong, but it is probably a SLIGHTLY better outcome for a time than the commmunist turning the cradle of democracy into a future Authoritarian Cesspool

@@jackthorton10 I guess you 've outlived both and so your logical assumptions. Greeks who have lived at least a junta (like my parents for example) beg to laugh at your comment though. Why is that?

Me on my way to barbeque a village in Northern Greece: (There were like 2 reds hiding in the forest nearby)

And they established a fascist regine wow, they did attack, Britain should have have no word in this

@@Furry-xr4hp they established fascist regime?? Probably you need some serious history lessons my friend. Georgios Papandreou the senior was fascist according to you? Greece didn't have any fascist regime until 1967 and the military Junta of Papadopoulos. Get it right. Oh! And if England hadn't any business to get involved so was the same about the Soviets, Yugoslavians of Tito, Bulgarians and Albanians. Yet they got involved.

@@ΚωνσταντίνοςΧΙ Greece had a fascist regime before we even entered ww2, most of Greece and greeks were communists

Freedom or death. Commie malakas can suck it

I like that idea. I have wanted to learn more about that war, especially because of how unusually brutal it ended up being to Paraguay.

@@theotank2439 yes it was a slauther for both sides mainly paraguay and brazil that suffered alot economicaly ,politicaly and millitary with this war, also o risk my self say that this was mas more brutal than the american civil war it self seen that the battles were mostly in close quarters due the terrible swampy terrain the armies fight making each battle a little antietam with bayonet charges close range skirmishes and everything else you can imagine

Only missed two words ("appreciate" and "comment"), great job!

wish granted

Except for the odd title.

What is your comment of the Yugoslavs particulary the Macedonians helping the communists during the civil war?

@@albinovenom6872 It's true...

@@albinovenom6872 Tito's Macedonianas were communists. Before them the nazis had created their own fake Macedonian state. Their leader was one who escaped through the Vatican trail and was never caught. But Tito instead of making peace with Greece he joined the fake Macedonia circus himself. He did that to promote communism in Greece (as he was a Stalinist at the time) but also to make the fake Macedonians forget their allegience to Bulgaria. Bulgaria too had become communist but Tito nevertheless did not want them to meddle with Yugoslav affairs.

@@albinovenom6872 based

While KKE was popular, it would never set roots in Greece, because unlike Russia, the weren't huge differences between middle class and lower class in Greece. Greeks never favoured communism: apart from being illegal since its existence (the KKE), it wasn't ideology that drove most people to EAM- ELAS, but their will to fight no matter what and EAM provided the highest success and survival rate. After the Varkiza agreement, most "communists" returned home, the fighting afterwards continued by fanatics and recruited children that were robbed off their families along with food by villages in northern Greece. You can see the civil war's footprints to this day: northern Greece never votes for socialist/communists parties in elections.

@@dimitrisoikonomou3568 KKE was not really all the rage in occupied Greece, but the communist bandits were very well armed. In addition don't forget USSR too was an ally, so many people were duped. If you were in Athens in October 1944, liberation day, and you were a nationalist, you would more likely than not fly the Soviet flag from your balcony together with the Greek flag.

@@kajamix Nationalists would never fly soviet flags since a lot of them were members of EDES and other anti-communist resistance movements

@@kajamix Sweet sweet irony.

@@ilililililililli2531 Yes they would. It was the wartime alliance, USSR was an ally. Everyone would fly the Soviet flag before the events of December 1944.

Κοψε τα ναρκωτικα ....Δεν αρμοζουν στην ηλικια σου

Λογικό, αφού όλη η επανάσταση οργανώθηκε από ένα κόμμα που ακόμη για κάποιον λόγο υπάρχει. Αν βάλουν όλες τις λεπτομέρειες του εμφυλίου, η Ελλάδα θα γεμίσει τεράστιο μίσος ενάντια της αριστεράς

I have the exact same thought!

Or the Soviet Forest Brother war in the Baltics

I actually live in Latvia, so yeah that would be cool (or just guerilla warfare in Eastern Europe after WW2 in general)

@@averagegamer6912 more videos about the early cold war in general would be great

@@conserva-chan2735 That doesn't sound like a bad option either.

Its not that we weren't taught more that we weren't taught correctly Probably because the second words about atrocities are heard the left wing or right wing teacher would be outraged and start raving about "propaganda"