February 1948 – Το Παιδομάζωμα – Mass Kidnapping of Children
A shameful episode of the Communist Insurgency of Greece, the so called “Greek Civil War” (1946-49). Referring to the kidnapping of 28,000 Greek children by the Communists during the conflict.
Children were ripped away from their families & sent to camps in the Communist Eastern Bloc – Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union etc.
While there, children had their names & identities changed, they were indoctrinated with Communist propaganda and taught to despise Greece.
The children were brainwashed and ordered to sit in classrooms, which composed of “lectures” about:
– “Macedonian Independence” (sic)
– Slavo-Skopjans are the only descendants of the Ancient Macedonians” (sic)
– “Greece is a fake country invented by the Great Powers” (sic)
– “Freedom for occupied Macedonia from the monarchofascists” (sic)
The United Nations passed 2 Resolutions, condemning the abductions and the conduct of the Communists;
– (UN Resolution 193 – November 1948)
– (UN Resolution 288 – November 1949)
The actions of the Communists is compared to Ottoman policies during Turkish occupation, where 1 out of every 5 Greek boys born, was taken from his family, re-programmed, raised as Muslims and anti-Greeks, enrolled in the corps of Janissaries to form elite units in the Ottoman Army. Where they became the most fanatical anti-Greeks and most brutal oppressors of their own people.
The book – “The Abducted Greek Children of the Communists – Paidomazoma”. Details the tragic story of a 12-year-old abducted girl, Dora, her struggles, horror and loneliness in Yugoslavia. Her fate was to spend 33 years behind the Iron Curtain, away from her widowed mother.
Maro, Dora’s mother, never stopped searching for her daughter until her last breath. She suffered years of disappointment with the end result being, never to see her daughter again. Maro’s struggles are as extensive as Dora’s – two human beings trying to be reunited but never reaching their goal.
A heart-breaking story which follows a young innocent girl through the depths of hell behind the Iron Curtain and sees her come out the other side, returning to Greece in her late sixties.
The most fervent anti-Greeks & loudest cheerleaders of the Skopjan propaganda & agenda against Greece, are in fact these kidnapped children & the descendants of these children, that were kidnapped all those years ago.
Today identifying as Skopjans.
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