Abstract
The publication acquaints readers with the issue of the Greek emigration in Czechoslovakia, from its inception, ie. from the arrival of thousands of child refugees in the spring of 1948, until the "repatriation" of the vast majority of Greek exiles during the 1980s. The existence of about a hundred thousand Greek political emigrants in the countries of the socialist camp has until recently constituted another taboo for the post-war Greek historiography.
This study follows mainly the political life of the emigrants in connection with the history of the Communist Party of Greece and its relationship with Moscow, respectively with other "fraternal" parties, especially with the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. A special attention is paid to the formation of the identity of emigrants in connection with the impact of the two splits of the Greek Communists at the time of destalinization and subsequently at the time of the Prague Spring, which led to the loss of the hegemonic position of the Communist Party in Greek Left.
Individual themes, such as the question of repatriation of Greek emigrants, are examined not only at the political level, but are also monitored their socio-cultural and anthropological overlaps in the context of political developments in Greece and Czechoslovakia.