Abstract
The congress voted for ‘affiliation with the Balkan communist federation’, an association of the Balkan sections – Bulgarian, Greek, and Serbian – of the third international and modified the name of the party adding to its title the word kommounistikon in brackets. The Comintern, in an effort to assist the powerful Bulgarian Communist party, supported the Bulgarian demand for a united Macedonian state, comprising the territories of Greek, Yugoslav, and Bulgarian Macedonia. The total disintegration of the Communist party under the Metaxas dictatorship must also be attributed to the methods and tactics employed by Constantine Maniadakis, Metaxas’ shrewd Minister of public security, described by some as the Himmler of Greece. The civil war of 1946-9, like the occupation and the ‘December Events’ that preceded it, brought new suffering and destruction to Greece, leaving behind a legacy of repression and foreign intervention (this time American) that culminated in the dictatorship of 1967-74.
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