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61 Years since the End of the civil War in Greece (1946–1949) 287
romania. 21 All steps of the Greek government and various international
and Greek bodies towards the governments of the countries where children
were transported, in order to repatriate them, failed.
the support received from socialist states, mainly from yugoslavia,
was known to the Greek government since 1947, but nobody knew exactly
what this represented, especially that the Greek Communist party denied
receiving aid from the governments and claimed that only humanitarian aid
had been sent to help by the committees established in different countries
of the world. today, thanks to various archive documents, we know that
this support was steady and considerable. For example, Milovan Djilas,
the yugoslav Communist party ideologue, in an interview given in 1990,
argued that partisans of the yugoslav Markos received about 100,000 rifles
and 1,000 guns. 22
the received aid, in the spirit of communist solidarity, can be grouped
as follows: a) Arms, ammunition, medicines, food, machinery, vehicles,
materials, b) training of officers and fighters in different camps in those
countries, c) care of the wounded in specialized hospitals, d) sending
children in the socialist countries. 23
Since August 1947, in the Blend, Slovenia, the representatives of
yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania agreed to morally and materially help
the Greek Democratic Army. Stalin agreed to this action, but indicated
more discretion to avoid any complications and to avoid Anglo-American
espionage. the documents showed that two representatives of the Greek
Communist party, Ioannidis and p. rusos traveled far and wide the Se
europe to inform, request and coordinate the aid received from socialist
states.
thus, on the 10 th of March 1948, in Bucharest, there was held a
special meeting of representatives of communist parties from poland,
Czechoslovakia, hungary, Greece and romania. the representative of
romania, Al. Moghioroş, referred: “To the help we need to give to the Greek
comrades in their difficult fight against the fascists”. on the agenda there
was a single point to discuss: “finding opportunities to cover the shortage
21 scAlcău, Paula, Elenismul în România (Bucureşti: Editura omonia, 2006), p.
187/scAlcău, Paula, Hellenism in Romania (Bucharest: omonoia publishing house,
2006), p. 187.
22 Ι. Μουρέλος – Ι. Μιχαηλίδης, Ο ελληνικός εμφύλιος πόλεμος, Μια αποτίμηση,
ΙΜΧΑ, Ελληνικά γράμματα, Αθήνα, 2007, σ. 98/MourElos, i., MihAilids, i., The
Greek civil war. An evaluation (Athens: ellinika Grammata publications, 2007), p. 98.
23 Νίκος Μαραντζίδης, Δημοκρατικός Στρατός Ελλάδας, 1946–1949, Εκδόσεις
Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα, 2010, σ. 34/MArANTZidis, N., The Greek Democratic Army,
1946–1949 (Athens: Alexandria publications, 2010), p. 34.