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ever hodza, who feared a Greek-American intervention in Albania, asked
zahariadis to end the war. 27
on the 20 th of April, the provisional government called on the un,
calling for a ceasefire, general amnesty and holding new elections, pointing
out also that Greek Communist party was willing to make big concessions.
noteworthy was the fact that this appeal of the Greek communists had
been submitted at the un by the Soviet union’s representative, Andrei
Gromico. 28 the Greek government did not respond, but it declared that the
Democratic Army should first surrender their weapons. the uS Foreign
Ministry agreed with the Greek government’s position, noting that it was
the 21 th proposal of the Greek Communist party of peaceful resolution of
the conflict from 1946 until then.
Since June 1949, tito did not allow anymore the forces of the Democratic
Army to cross the border into yugoslavia while the Greek Communist camps
were closed on the territory of yugoslavia. thus, after a major involvement
in the civil war in Greece, yugoslavia declared publicly that it ceased to
support the cause of the Greek communist. At the third Conference of the
Greek Communist party, held in 1950 in Bulgaria, zahariadis declared:
“how I started in 1946? We started after we have secured the unconditional
support of yugoslavia. I say it again. If we knew that we would be betrayed
(by tito), then we would not have started in 1946 as we started...” 29 this
change in yugoslavia’s position, allowed zahariadis to speak about “the
stab in the back” given by tito to the Greek communists. In reality it was
only one acceptable excuse for the defeat of the Democratic Army.
In July, an important meeting took place in poland where the
representatives of the Greek Communist party leaders hold discussions with
the representatives of the Communist parties from Se europe regarding the
situation in Greece and about the measures to be taken to drain the Greek
fighters’ exodus in these countries in case of defeat. 30
27 Πάβελ Χράντετσνι, Η ελληνική διασπορά στην Τσεχοσλοβακία, Ίδρυση και αρχικά
στάδια ανάπτυξης (1948–1954), ΙΜΧΑ, 2007, σ. 46/hrAdEcNY, Pavel, The Greek
Diaspora in Czehoslavakia, The Creation and the Phases of Beginning, 1948–1954
(ΙΜΧΑ, 2007), p. 46.
28 Γιάννης Σκαλιδάκης, “Η Προσωρινή Δημοκρατική Κυβέρνηση, στο Εμφύλιος
πόλεμος, 60 χρόνια από τη λήξη του”, Ελευθεροτυπία – Ιστορικά, Αθήνα, 2009, σ. 56/
SKAlIDAKIS, Giannis, “the provisional Democratic Government. 60 years from the
end of the War”, Elefteropipia – Historics (Athens, 2009), p. 56.
29 Λέανδρος Μπόλαρης, Επανάσταση και αντεπανάσταση στην Ελλάδα, Ο εμφύλιος
πόλεμος, 1946–1949, Μαρξιστικό βιβλιοπωλείο, Αθήνα, 2010, σ. 159/MPolAris,
leandros, Revolution and Counterevolution in Greece. The Civil War, 1946–1949
(Athens, 2010), p. 159.
30 Ευτυχία Βουτυρά, Το όπλο παρά πόδα, Οι πολιτικοί πρόσφυγες του ελληνικού