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Greek Civil War
George Polk’s Murder and the Cold War Case Greece Never Solved
CBS correspondent George Polk was found murdered in Thessaloniki Bay in 1948. His death remains one of the unresolved crimes of the Greek Civil War.
The Greeks of Tashkent – From Civil War Exile to Living Memory
A forgotten chapter of the Greek diaspora — the story of the political refugees who built new lives in Tashkent, kept their language alive, and dreamed of returning home.
Greeks in Hungary, a History in Two Acts
The Greek presence in Hungary is one of the oldest in Greece’s modern Diaspora, predating the Greek state by well over a century. It is, further, one of the most interesting because, as a tragic…
Bulkes: The “Greek Republic” That “Never Existed”
5/23/2016 — Today, it’s raining here in Chicago, and cold in mid-May. Back in January of 2013, it was just such a cold, rainy day… but elsewhere. At the time, my family still lived in…
Coffee talk in Belogiannis
Alexander Billinis seeks out the history behind the Greek settlement of Beloiannisz in Hungary Five minutes off a spanking new autobahn, funded, like those in Greece, by the European Union, I arrive in Beloiannisz, a…
A Partisan Chat: Alexis Parnis
“You see, I still live like a partisan,” as he showed me his house on the slopes of Mt. Hymettus, in the rapidly suburbanized and gentrified suburb of Peania, outside Athens. The modest house with…
