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290 APOSTOLOS PATELAKIS
In August 1949, the Democratic Army detained only two massifs,
Grammos and Vitsi, at the border with Albania and without outside support. 31
Following a major offensive (operation torch), the national army managed
to secure a decisive victory on the 30 th of August, ending the civil war.
Communist resistance was crushed. the communist dream of creating
a popular republic faded away. Greece – a country with a leftist vocation
due to historical circumstances remained the only Balkan country that kept
its monarchy. 32
on the 16 th of october, the radio station “Free Greece” that meanwhile
had moved its headquarters from Belgrade to Bucharest, announced the end
of the war. After the Civil War, thousands of Democratic Army fighters
and communist leaders took refuge in the socialist countries, where they
could live a decent life, away from political and ideological disputes that
constantly threatened their lives, but far from homeland. Among these
refugees, around 12,000 people took refuge in the hospitable land of
romania, where they had access to all economic, social and cultural values
of the romanian society.
εμφυλίου πολέμου στην ανατολική Ευρώπη, Εκδόσεις Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονίας,
Θεσσαλονίκη, 2005, σ. 9 (VouTirA, Eftihia, With the Gun at the Foot. Greek Political
Refugees in Eastern Europe (thessaloniki: university of Macedonia publications, 2006),
p. 9. 31 Ιορντάν Μπάεφ, Μια ματιά απ έξω, Ο εμφύλιος πόλεμος στην Ελλάδα, Ντοκουμέντα
και πηγές, Εκδόσεις Φιλίστορ, Αθήνα, 2010, σ. 195/BAEV, jordan, The Greek Civil War –
A View from Outside (Filistor publishing house, Athens, 2010), p. 195.
32 DulIu-BAJDeChI, Steliana, Drumuri sub cenuşă, România şi Grecia, între
anii 1944–1949 (constanţa: Editura dobrogea, 2009), p. 8/duliu-BAjdEchi, steliana,
Roads under Ashes, Romania and Greece between 1944–1949 (constanţa: dobrogea
publishing house, 2009), p. 8.