AHC: Greece split like Korea was after the Greek Civil War (1946-1949)

I don't know how plausible this is, but is it possible for Greece to be split into a Communist pro-USSR half and a capitalist pro-US half like Korea was after the Korean War, particularly during the Greek Civil War between the Greek Government and the militant wing of the Greek Communist Party?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War
 
I don't know how plausible this is, but is it possible for Greece to be split into a Communist pro-USSR half and a capitalist pro-US half like Korea was after the Korean War, particularly during the Greek Civil War between the Greek Government and the militant wing of the Greek Communist Party?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War

A small country with 8 Million people is hard to split . Maybe Northern Greece is annexed by Yugoslawia ( Then they are finally reunited with Macedonia). Maybe Northern greeece becomes a Yugoslav Republic or is merged with Macedonian Republic within Yugoslavia. But I don´t know where the communist where exactly strong in Greece and if you could split the country along lines. Or they are merged with Communist Bulgaria . Turkey would watch such a developement and Western Thracia.
 
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you could have a Taiwan situation with the communists holding the mainland and the Greek government fleeing to Crete
 

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I don't know how plausible this is, but is it possible for Greece to be split into a Communist pro-USSR half and a capitalist pro-US half like Korea was after the Korean War, particularly during the Greek Civil War between the Greek Government and the militant wing of the Greek Communist Party?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War
What about having Stalin actually sponsor the Greek Communists during the Greek Civil War in this TL? Indeed, this could lead to even more Western help for the anti-Communist forces in Greece as well as to an eventual stalemate on the ground in Greece!
 
A small country with 8 Million people is hard to split . Maybe Northern Greece is annexed by Yugoslawia ( Then they are finally reunited with Macedonia). Maybe Northern greeece becomes a Yugoslav Republic or is merged with Macedonian Republic within Yugoslavia. But I don´t know where the communist where exactly strong in Greece and if you could split the country along lines. Or they are merged with Communist Bulgaria . Turkey would watch such a developement and Western Thracia.

Well to be honest Czechoslovakia is even smaller but it was split up eventually and successfully.

A split up is not strange. Though when you look at the geographical layout of Greece it is going to be difficult. But i would imagine one side is the mainland up untill Lamia and the other side is the islands, the Peloponnes peninsula and Athens(Central Greece will be divide through the middle). But i doubt that is an equal division of economic power. South side capital Athens, north side Thessaloniki.
 
In OTL, the Commies, who'd kept a *very* low profile during German occupation, ran into the 'Desert Rats' and got bitten on the butt...

FWIW, my father was in the bitter house-to-house fighting in Athens. IIRC, his team of techs found a crate of German training grenades. They'd yell the standard warning for grenade, throw one. The insurgents, with scant combat experience beyond feuding, would scatter. RAF Regiment snipers nailed them. 'Caught & Bowled !!' Sweep would retrieve grenades. Rinse and repeat. When they ran short of grenades, they used dark wine bottles and the cry of 'Molotov'...

POD could be the '8th Army' contingent even thinner on ground, or moved en-masse to Italian campaign...

Oh, and I wouldn't be writing this, as my parents met after the '8th Army' cleaned up the coup attempt...
 
Well to be honest Czechoslovakia is even smaller but it was split up eventually and successfully.

A split up is not strange. Though when you look at the geographical layout of Greece it is going to be difficult. But i would imagine one side is the mainland up untill Lamia and the other side is the islands, the Peloponnes peninsula and Athens(Central Greece will be divide through the middle). But i doubt that is an equal division of economic power. South side capital Athens, north side Thessaloniki.

Isn't that the only real way to split Greece, aside from just having Crete being the true Greek government and the mainland being whatever? The capitalist Greece is basically Greece as it was after independence from the Ottomans in the early 19th century, the communist Greece is the Greece gained during the Balkan Wars?
 
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