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Internally the absence of civil rights and the oppression that followed created a sense of fear and persecution among many in the population creating trauma and division that persisted long after the fall of the junta. After the September 8, 1943, Armistice with Italy, ELAS seized control of Italian garrison weapons in the country. [30] The British historian Richard Clogg described the writings of Georgalas and Konstantopoluos as "pretentious verbiage", noting that they tended to use elaborate and impressive-sounding language to mask the shallowness of their theories. Soon inflation began creeping up once again, as governments printed money to pay for higher wages and welfare. The war museum at Askifou, Skafia, is one of the island’s most famous. The junta delayed the arrival of his remains to Corfu for four months, fearing public reaction and protests. The KKE's leadership knew so, but the ELAS's fighters and rank-and-file Communists did not, which became a source of conflict within both EAM and ELAS. [74][75], Meanwhile, at Matala, Crete, a hippie colony which had been living in the caves since the 1960s, was never disturbed. In fact, even rock concerts and tours were allowed such as by the then popular rock groups Socrates Drank the Conium and Nostradamos. To combat the rising influence of the EAM, and fearful of an eventual takeover after the German defeat, in 1943, Ioannis Rallis, the Prime Minister of the collaborationist government, authorised the creation of paramilitary forces, known as the Security Battalions. He was dissuaded when the hardliners renewed their personal allegiance to him. True to their "percentages agreement" with Britain relating to Greece, the Soviet delegation in Greece neither encouraged nor discouraged EAM's ambitions, as Greece belonged to the British sphere of influence. $7.88. In a similar vein, the junta attempted to steer Greek public opinion not only by propaganda but also by inventing new words and slogans, such as paleokommatismos (Παλαιοκομματισμός, 'old-partyism') to discredit parliamentary democracy, or Ellas Ellinon Christianon (Ελλάς Ελλήνων Χριστιανών, 'Greece for Christian Greeks') to underscore its ideology. It would deprive the partisans of supplies and recruits and simultaneously raise antipathy towards them. A tribute to his mother, Eleni, by Greek-American Nicholas Gage, a journalist at the New York Times, who, when posted to a bureau in Greece, decides to solve the murder of his mother by the communist guerrillas, when they invade her village during the Greek civil war. [103] The German writer, investigative reporter and journalist Günter Wallraff traveled to Greece in May 1974. Trojan War. Γιώργου Μπαρτζώκα, "Δημοκρατικός Στρατός Ελλάδας", Secretary of the Communist organization of Athens of KKE in 1945, 1986. According to the census of 1951, Greece had a population of 7.63 million, in 1961 the figure was 8.38 milion, the 1971 figure is 8.76 million (Lahmeyer). Constantine remained in exile during the remainder of military rule. [72][73] Films such as Marijuana Stop! 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