'Decembarska pobuna' u Atini (Dekemvriana) i Jugoslavija (decembar 1944-januar 1945)

Abstract

Pobuna grčkih levičara (EAM, ELAS) u Atini, britanska intervencija i zaokret u stavu novog jugoslovenskog vođstva od neskrivenih simpatija prema pobunjenicima do pasivizacije usled pritisaka iz Londona i "signala" iz Moskve.

The uprising of the followers of the Greek Left Movement EAM/ELAS and the British intervention that followed, at the beginning of December 1944 in Athens, opened the "second round" of the Greek civil conflict. In this way additional elements were introduced into the complicated Balkan situation, both in Balkan communists' relations, and the new Yugoslav leadership, (the unified government after the implementation of the Tito-Subasic agreement), within which the decisive role was played by the representatives of the National Liberation Movement together with their British allies and the USSR. Besides its undisclosed sympathies for the Greek communists' cause, the Yugoslav Partisan leadership and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) were forced to hold a passive attitude, due to the British pressure, as well as because of "signals" coming from Moscow. The coinciding of the Athens conflicts and the initiated issue of the possible creation of a Yugoslav-Bulgarian federation, coupled with unavoidable initiatives regarding the "Macedonian issue", allegations by the Greek government and the British for suspected initiative plans for the annexion of Greek Macedonia, misunderstandings between the Partisan leadership and the British, war operations on the Yugoslav territory conducted on the Srem Front, all influenced a situation where Josip Broz remained heedless to Greek communists' appeals for help. It also represented bowing down to Stallin's line in respect of the agreement with Churchill made in October 1944 in Moscow. The insufficiently consolidated Yugoslav side was not sufficiently ready at the time to engage more actively in the Greek crisis.