They were such fanatics because they put their hearts in it. Greek Refugees and the Communist Party of Greece

Abstract

This collective monograph's chapter deals with the views of Greek political emigration to Czechoslovakia from the perspective of the Communist Party of Greece's inner politics. It focuses both on the relationships of narrators towards the party since its foundation and towards its elites, and on reflexion of two inner-party conflicts in 1956 and 1968.

This text shows a clear difference in stances of different generations as well.

Keywords

• Greeks
• Czechoslovakia
• Greece
• refugees
• emigration and immigration
• Greek civil war
• Communist Party of Greece
• oral history