Eighty years ago, the December Uprising of 1944, known as the Dekemvrianá, turned Athens into a battlefield as British-backed forces clashed with communist-led resistance fighters in the waning days of World War II.
FILE - A funeral procession, carrying a banner painted with the blood of dead demonstrators in Athens on Dec. 4, 1944, pauses opposite the Old Royal Palace, which was the scene of the clash with the police the day before, as a band plays a Russian Revolutionary Funeral March. File.FILE - Demonstrators point to the bodies of two of their number, a man and woman who were victims of a clash between the demonstrators and police in Athens , Greece on Dec. 3, 1944. FILE - A member of the E.A.M.
British troops and the new Greek government battled communist-led WW II resistance fighters in a bloody five-week confrontation that raged across the city. “Greek society must reckon with its history. To heal its wounds, we need to discuss them openly, understand what happened, and come to terms with the past,” he said.
On a narrow side street in Kaisariani, a row of apartment blocks still display the damage from 1944 and fading slogans of defiance written by the rebels in red paint. Kontostavlos supports a local campaign to give protected status as a wartime monument. A debate over the Athens battle’s legacy remains fraught in part due to the involvement of armed groups of Nazi collaborators. Seeking to reinvent their roles and evade fatal retribution, they zealously fought communist-backed rebels and opposed reconciliation efforts.
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