Now, what if the communist had lost, and the royalist had won? What affects would a West-Allied Greece would have on the Cold War?
Now, what if the communist had lost, and the royalist had won? What affects would a West-Allied Greece would have on the Cold War?
Out of curiosity how did you get a communist victory in Greece in the first place? Did you have Stalin going back on the "Percentages Agreement"? Because that's pretty much the only way you can prevent the British army from simply crushing the communists in Greece.
OOC: the British couldn't afford to pay for their own army in Greece. The US agreed to bankroll them. Without that decision, Greece goes red.
OOC:If you're not gonna post from the POV of the DBWI, then put "OOC" in front of your posts.Out of curiosity how did you get a communist victory in Greece in the first place? Did you have Stalin going back on the "Percentages Agreement"? Because that's pretty much the only way you can prevent the British army from simply crushing the communists in Greece.
I though they were already deployed in Greece before money became a real issue, am I wrong about this? It would be hard to see the Brits completely pulling out of Greece before militarily crushing the Greek communists (lets face it it wouldn't have taken an enormous army to do so) and the Russians were unwilling to break their agreement with Britain to help them. However the UK certainly wouldn't have the money to rebuild the Greek economy the way the US would (the US famously sent a huge number of Missouri Mules to help the Greek farmers and prevent the crops from failing). Maybe with the UK being unable to feed an occupied Greece (all the UK's grain surplus at the time was being sent to occupied Germany) we could see some sort of second-wave communist uprising fighting a guerrilla war, but it is hard to see the British abandoning Greece to the Soviets, even if the Americans refused to help with financial support, as it would make the British look extremely weak if they couldn't maintain control of a satellite state that the USSR was willing to let them have. In the face of such a loss of prestige i see the British pressing on with the military occupation of Greece, but an impoverished, starving and restive Greece, rather than the country that would later be rebuilt as a liberal, Western and wealthy (not so much in 2015 though).