Mostly they called me Czech in Greece, whereas Greek in the Czech Republic. Return to homeland

Abstract

This collective monograph's chapter deals with the issue of returns of Greek political refugees from the socialist Czechoslovakia, where they settled due to the civil war in Greece (1946-1949), back to their homeland. Based on narrators' memories its author shows how complicated were the circumstances of their repatriation and acceptation by the Greek society.

Keywords

• Greeks
• Czechoslovakia
• Greece
• refugees
• emigration and immigration
• Greek civil war
• repatriation
• oral history