Indeed, the Greeks must never forget or forgive the horrific crimes of the Nazis, the Fascists, the Bulgarians and the Albanians against Greece and its people during the occupation. And they will not. But they should also remember that the Communists of E.A.M - EL.A.S. committed even more horrific mass crimes against fellow Greeks, including unarmed women and children, equal only to those being committed today in Syria by the jihadist animals.
In just ONE event (Meligalas) the victims of the blood thirsty communist animals of EAM -ELAS
EXCEEDED THOSE of all the German and Italian murders against civilians and unarmed captives put together, reaching the number of about 1,500. There brutality was such that instead of using their fire arms to kill them,
they butchered them using only knives, axes and even tin cans. Before killing them, they mutilated and cut to pieces many of their victims. After they were done, they through their bodies down a well.
I can't believe there are "Greeks" (the supporters of Tsipras and the KKE) who worship the very people that are responsible for these genocidal crimes against Greece and especially their then leader Aris Velouchiotis! And not only they worship them, but they vote for their sons and their grand sons who, during a recent demonstration in North Greece attended by Tsipras, were shouting “EAM – ELAS – MELIGALAS” = be prepared it will happen again. And I can’t believe that the Greek State allows these monsters and scum of the earth to be represented in Parliament when, only yesterday, one of their leaders (Aleka Papariga) declared once again in Parliament that her party does not respect and does not recognize the Greek Constitution (= the constitutional/democratic order) but they just “behave good” waiting for their new chance.
The Massacre of Meligala
By: Katerina Nikolas
• Published: June 20, 2010
The Greek Civil war is a period which many will not speak of in the Greek Peloponnese, as atrocious acts were carried out between fellow countrymen. Whilst Greeks fought bravely against the Italians in the Second World War, defeating them, only in turn to fall to the mighty power of the advancing Germans, a second conflict was unfolding.
Communist and nationalists fought fiercely to take control of the country, and as the Germans began to leave Greece in September 1944, Aris Velouchiotis, chief of the People’s Army for National Liberation (ELAS) sent communist troops to conquer the Peloponnese.
In 1943 Security Battalions had been created to fight anti partisan groups, and many were thought to be in collaboration with the Nazis. The small town of Meligala in Messinia, Peloponnese, was the headquarters of a security battalion, and between 13th- 15th of September 1944, a 3 day battle raged there, between the nationalists and ELAS. The battle culminated in the massacre of Meligala, a brutal slaughter of at least 1400 men, women and children - civilians who were butchered alongside 50 officers and non commissioned officers of the security battalions.
Those rounded up to be killed were marched from many different villages and were primarily local peasants, their number including many innocent bystanders. The troops of ELAS made merry with their murdering spree, sparing ammunition and killing with knives, axes, tools and cans. Torture was inflicted before the dead and dying were thrown into a mass well on the outskirts of Meligala, known as Pigada.
Tassos Antonopoulos was an 18 year old spectator to the massacre and writes in his book ‘the Cavalry of Meligala’ that the executioners were “torturing and slaying their fellow men in the most inhuman and barbaric way”. Some had limbs amputated before being tossed into the well, others had their noses cut off, their eyes pulled out, their ears and tongues cut off. “Brothers and fellow countrymen were slaying each other, driven by hatred to revenge one another.”
The massacre stands as one of the most shameful events of the Greek Civil War, and it is no wonder that those who lived through those days hardly speak of them, as old enemies returned to live uneasily in the same environs. A massive blackened cross stares down upon the site of the Pigado and the area has been preserved as a monument to the dead.
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