GREEK RESISTANCE SONG WITH RARE FOOTAGE

In February 1942, EAMs central Committee decided to form a military corps, called the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), that would first operate in the mountains of Central Greece, with Aris Velouchiotis as their chief captain. Later, on 28 July 1942, Napoleon Zervas announced the foundation of the "National Groups of Greek Guerrillas" (EOEA), as EDES' military arm, to operate, at first, in the region of Aetoloakarnania. EKKA also formed a military corps, the "5/42 Evzones Regiment" under Dimitrios Psarros, that was mainly localized in the area of Mount Giona.

Until the summer of 1942, the occupation authorities had been little troubled by the armed Resistance, which was still in its infancy. The Italians in particular, in control of most of the countryside, considered the situation to have been normalized.[2] From that point, however, the Resistance gained pace, with EAM/ELAS in particular expanding rapidly, with armed groups attacking and disarming local gendarmerie stations and isolated Italian outposts, or touring the villages and giving speeches. The Italians were forced to re-evaluate their assessment, and take such measures such as the deportation of Army officers to camps in Italy and Germany, which naturally only encouraged the latter to join the underground en masse by escaping "to the mountains".[3]

These developments emerged most dramatically as the Greek Resistance announced its presence to the world with one of the war's most spectacular sabotage acts, the blowing up of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge, linking northern and southern Greece, on 25 November 1942. This operation was the result of British mediation between ELAS and EDES (Operation "Harling"), carried out by 12 British SOE saboteurs and a joint ELAS-EDES force. This was the first and last time that the two major Resistance groups would cooperate, due to the rapidly developing rivalry and ideological retrenchment between them.

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[kyriakosvita]

Spania ta stigmiotypa,alla kai h ektelesh tou tragoudiou!!!

[ramberghini]

ElAS should have beaten monarcho-fascists in civil war

[JHMichaels]

@yeniceri1015 You're one ignorant and rude cockroach of a human being. What the Greeks are experiencing isn't an isolated incident. This will keep happening around the world to further the agenda of the global banking families. We're all in this together, and you sit there basking in your naivety. Wake up you idiot, educate yourself.

[npeacy]

oi ellines edosan tsous nekrous kata ton italon kai stin antistasi kai ti katalavan ?meta oi aggloamerikanoi irthan kai mas skotonan kai aftoi kai mas evalan na skotonomaste kai metaxi mas.eno oi tourkoi pu eminan oudeteroi vgikan alovitoi kai akoma tous stirizoun oi amerikanoi kai tous sevonte eno emas mas ehoun gia ta koroida tous giati mas ehoun dedomenous kai oloi oi igetes mas einai skilakia tous.

[Ikaros1994]

@yeniceri1015 Fucking bitch , just shut the fuck up! You don t know nothing so don t write your bullshit! You ignorant!

[yeniceri1015]

@JohnyTanguero Beware of what exactly? What type of internet threat is this? What should I beware of? What will the Greeks do to me? Borrow money from me and not pay it back? Oh dear lord, how frightening.

No sense in addressing each other anymore as two countries. We will now talk to your overlord Germany for any problems we may have. You have no sovereignty.

[JohnyTanguero]

@yeniceri1015 You know, we use your name 'yeniceri, yenitsaros, to humiliate someone we don't like, someone who was raised a traitor. So, beware...

[yeniceri1015]

Greeks, fighting instead of sitting with their hands out begging for money? This is too interesting to watch.

[mpanistirtzis17]

@dionf85 μαθε πρωτα να μιλας ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ και μετα ελα να τα πεις αυτα! ΑΝΘΕΛΛΗΝΑ, ΕΣΥ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΟΜΙΟΙ ΣΟΥ,ανυστοριτε

[Panas300]

Ελευθερια και οχι εμφυλιος ξανα,ειναι αδιανοητο Ελληνες να σκοτώνουν Ελληνες

προδοτες και οικονομικα συμφέροντα καταστρέψαν την Ελλαδα μας!