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The Alphabet Soup

Listening to Christos reminiscing about the war I got lost in the acronyms. There were so many organizations, with similar abbreviated names, that made me wonder how anyone could remember to which group he belonged to!  Below are some of them.

Notice that most of the group acronyms, regardless of the group’s political orientation, have an “E,” for “Εθνικη,” or "Ελληνικη(ος)" which means "National," or "Greek or of Greece," respectively—thus evoking an aura of patriotism and authenticity!


EA                 Ethniki Allilegii  — National Solidarity.
EAM               Ethiko Apeleftherotiko Metopo — National Liberation Front. (Its military branch was ELAS).
EASAD            Ethnikos Agrotikos Syndesmos Antikomunnistikis Draseos — National Agricultural Federation of
                      Anti-Communist Action.

EDES              Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos — National Republican Greek League.
EEAM             Ethniko Ergatico Apeleftherotiko Metopo — National Workers’ Liberation Front.
EEE                Ethniki  Enosis Ellados — National Union of Greece.
EKKA              Ethniki Kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosi — National And Social Liberation.
ELAS              Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos — Greek People’s Liberation Army. (Its political branch was EAM).
EPON             Eniaia Panelladiki Organosis Neon — United Panhellenic Organization of Youth.
KKE                Kommounistiko  Komma Ellados — Communist Party of Greece.
OPLA             Organosis Perifrourisis tou Laikou Agona — Organization for the Protection of the People’s
                                                                                  Struggle
.
PEEA             Politiki Epitropi Ethnikis Apeleftheroseos -- Political Committee for National Liberation.

X                   “Organization X” (Greek: Οργάνωσις "Che") — commonly referred to simply as X and its members
                     as Chites.
A   paramilitary militia of the extreme right armed and funded by the British.  The letter
                     X was used as the emblem of the organization because it resembled King George’s II crest.
                     Founder and leader of X was Colonel George Grivas, a Greek Cypriot by birth,
                     who in the 1950’s became a nemesis for the British as leader of the underground EOKA
                     movement in Cyprus. 

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