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no socialist state acknowledged officially this government, but its
representatives wished them success in their activity and in the struggle for
independence and peace in the Balkans.
on the 10 th of February 1948, in frame of the discussions hold in
Moscow between the Soviet Communist leaders, yugoslavia and Bulgaria,
Stalin, referring to the cause of Greek communists, said among other
things: “we do not have any prospect of defeat. the revolution in Greece
should cease as soon as possible...” 18 zahariadis, during a visit to Belgrade
in March 1948, learned from tito about the new position of the Soviet
union, but with this entire unfavorable trend, he informed yugoslavian
colleagues that the Greek partisans would fight until final victory.
on the 27 th of February 1948, the official government in Athens
addressed the un Special Commission on the Balkans (unSCoB)
accusing the provisional government from the mountains that they
evacuated children outside the country to communist indoctrination, but
also that the government from Athens evacuated children from conflict
areas to save them from the Communists. 19 the truth was that both sides
and more specifically, the Greek Communist party, on the one hand, and
on the other hand, queen Frederica, evacuated children, particularly from
the northern Greece, to be saved from the horrors of war, with or without
the parental consent.
on the 3 rd of March 1948, in Belgrade, within the International youth
Congress, the countries forming the Cominform, at the proposal of the
representative of Greece, decided to give asylum to children between 3–14
years, living in conflict zones. In the years 1948 to 1949 about 28,000
children in Greece found shelter in the colonies created in yugoslavia,
Bulgaria, Albania, hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet union and romania
(5,600). 20 Shortly after, first groups of Greek children would arrive
(cca. 400) to călimăneşti, the first colony of Greek refugees created in
18 Φοίβος Οικονομίδης, Ο πόλεμος, η διείσδυση και η προπαγάνδα στις
ελληνοαμερικανικές σχέσεις, Εκδ. Ορφέας, Αθήνα, 2001, σ. 88 (oiKoNoMidis, Fivos,
The War, Infiltration and the Propaganda in the Greek – American Relations (Athens:
orfeas public house, 2001), p. 88.
19 Τασούλα Βερβενιώτη, “Παιδομάζωμα η/και παιδοφύλαγμα, στο Ιστορία
Εικονογραφημένη”, τεύχος 503, Μάιος, 2010, Αθήνα, σ. 6-7/VErVENioTi, Tasoula‚
“Kidnapping Children and/or the Children Care”, Ilustrated History, number 503, May
(Athens, 2010): 6-7.
20 Θανάσης Μητσόπουλος, Μείναμε Έλληνες, Τα σχολεία των ελλήνων πολιτικών
προσφύγων στις σοσιαλιστικές χώρες, Εκδώσεις Οδυσσέας, Αθήνα, 1979, σ. 15/
MItSopouloS, thanasis, We stayed Greeks. The Schools of the Greek Political
Countries (Athens: publishing house odysseas, 1979), p. 15.