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In a few days there is the 70th anniversary of the Varkiza Agreement between the british imperialism/greek monarchy and the stalinists of KKE, the greek CP (12 Feb 1945). It was the outcome of the bloody December 1944 where the CP leadership led the poorly armed Athens' ELAS(Greek people's army) in the butchery of the heavily armed british troops, while forbidding the main ELAS forces to enter the battle. In Varkiza they signed the disarmament of the whole ELAS, instances of which had been filmed by the british: http://youtu.be/i4kWeTDT4A4 The black berets crying are from Aris Velouchiotis's detachment who himself not obeying to the party's traitorous orders and had fled to the mountains; but not for long..... "We had won! We had all the people with us. We could not understand why we had to yield our weapons. We obeyed crying..." These are the exact words of an old lady, at that time ELAS fighter, interviewed.
From December 2008 on, "Varkiza has ended" has become a motto of the left in Greece.
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