ELAS guerrillas

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ELAS guerrillas were the armed resistance fighters of the Greek People’s Liberation Army, the main communist-led partisan force opposing Axis occupation in Greece during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek resistance fighters
guerrilla fighters
partisans
activeIn Axis occupation of Greece
World War II
commandLanguage Greek
conflict Greek Civil War
Greek Resistance
cooperatedWith Special Operations Executive
surface form: British Special Operations Executive (SOE)

other Greek resistance groups
country Greece
demobilizationDate 1945
demobilizedBy Varkiza Agreement
endTime 1945
enemyOf Greek royalist forces
Security Battalions
goal establishment of a people’s democracy in Greece
liberation of Greece from Axis occupation
historicalRegion Balkans
ideology communism
militaryBranch land forces
notableEvent Dekemvriana
notableOperation liberation of large parts of mainland Greece
operatesIn Greek mountains
occupied Greek towns
rural Greece
opposedPoliticalIdeology fascism
monarchism
opposedTo Bulgarian occupation forces
Fascist Italy
Greek collaborationist government
Nazi Germany
organizedBy National Liberation Front (EAM)
partOf Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS)
surface form: Greek People’s Liberation Army
politicalAlignment left-wing
recruitedFrom Greek intellectuals
Greek peasants
Greek workers
former Greek army officers
shortName ELAS fighters
startTime 1942
supportedBy Communist Party of Greece
surface form: Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
symbolicColor red
usesTactic ambushes
guerrilla warfare
hit-and-run attacks
sabotage operations

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Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS) alsoKnownAs ELAS guerrillas
subject surface form: Greek People’s Liberation Army