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Article: The International Dimension of the Greek Civil War.
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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"I am sure in Greece I found one of the best opportunities for wise action that this war has tossed to me from its dark waves." So wrote Winston Churchill to his wife on February 1, 1945, while on his way to meet with Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta. [1]
Churchill was of course referring to the decisive intervention by British forces in Athens, in December 1944, barely two months after Greece's liberation: an intervention that--at least for the moment--helped put down a Communist-led revolt during what is still commonly referred to as the Second Round of the (almost) decade-long Greek Civil War (1942-49). The British move had been ordered personally by Churchill in ...