AHC: No Greek Civil War after VE Day, No Communist One-Party state

raharris1973

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Here's the challenge, with any PoD *after* June 1st, 1941, have Greece avoid its post-VE-Day civil war.

Rules:
a) Greece avoids civil war after VE Day entirely, or if that cannot work, keep it far shorter- a month or less- and less costly- under 10k dead.
b) Greece cannot end up a one-party Communist state
c) Greece cannot be occupied for more than decade
d) Greece can have as much or as civil war *during* WWII as you want
 
You could see an Italy like situation with a very large communist party that almost every party has to coalition to prevent from coming to power. If they moderate towards eurocommunism later you could see them come to power without creating a one party state.
 
UK supply ELD SKE and a kind of POUMesque / Soc Dem Rev Titoism situation develops to the left of the KKE? That might get you a two party communist state. "The Only Social Democratic Party Behind The Iron Curtain"?

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raharris1973

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You could see an Italy like situation with a very large communist party that almost every party has to coalition to prevent from coming to power. If they moderate towards eurocommunism later you could see them come to power without creating a one party state.

But how could we arrive at this outcome without a civil war, and not much more violence than there was in postwar Italy or France?

UK supply ELD SKE

The UK supports ELD SKE (Union for People's Democracy) for......."reasons"

There is an independent Leftist party to the left of the KKE, "a kind of POUMesque / Soc Dem Rev Titoism situation". Is that role filled by ELD SKE, or somebody else?

What is the UK, and the Greek populace doing in terms of supporting non-Marxist bourgeois republicans, Venizelists and monarchists?
 
The UK supports ELD SKE (Union for People's Democracy) for......."reasons"

They found reasons for Tito: fightingness.

There is an independent Leftist party to the left of the KKE, "a kind of POUMesque / Soc Dem Rev Titoism situation". Is that role filled by ELD SKE, or somebody else?

I'm figuring the ELD SKE are forced left by the revolutionary fighting, much like the Austrian or Hungarian social democrats.
 
But how could we arrive at this outcome without a civil war, and not much more violence than there was in postwar Italy or France?
The communists and right worked together in a coalition until the right tried to disarm the communists. Maybe the right doesn’t try to disarm the communists until after the war by integrating the communist groups into the army
 

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Did Churchill's interest in restoring the monarchy have anything to do with the outbreak of the civil war.

Even one of the non-communist resistance groups, EDES, was republican in sympathy. I think Venizelists were still a faction and republican.
 
That's not much of a challenge. So let's have one in late November 1944. The party gets in contact with Dimitrof and by extension Stalin in late November 1944 instead of playing it by the ear. End result they never renege on the deal on the new army. Battle of Athens never happens and national unity government goes on. Free elections and a referendum on the monarchy happen later in 1945. Monarchy losses but so do the communists who get something below 20% of the vote. But army and police have lots of former ELAS people and even more pure Venizelists for white terror to never happen, the centre that's forming the new government tacitly allied with ELAS over the monarchy. Greece goes the way of Italy and France with just sufficiently more bad blood to make election campaigns interesting.
 
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raharris1973

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That's not much of a challenge. So let's have one in late November 1944. The part gets in contact with Dimitrof and by extension Stalin in late November 1944 instead of playing it by the Earl End result they never renege on television deal on the new army. Battle of Athens never happens and national unity government goes on. Free elections and a referendum on the monarchy happen later in 1945. Monarchy losses but so do the communists who get something below 20% of the vote. But army and police have lots of former ELAS people and even more pure Venizelists for white terror to never happen, the centre that's forming the new government tacitly allied with ELAS over the monarchy. Greece goes the way of Italy and France with just sufficient more bad blood to make election campaigns interesting.

I think I get your meaning, although I think auto-correct messed with several words in your post!
 
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