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Wargaming => Intel Dump => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on December 26, 2018, 09:23:35 AM
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So it's Boxing Day for our English cousins
But if anyone picked up any games yesterday, then it's UN-Boxing day (see what I did there?)
Sooooooo.... what'd you get? Post pics here :)
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I guess I could unbox some of the games sitting on my table.
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Boxing Day always makes me think of Athens, Greece in 1944.
The germans were pulling out and the primary resistance groups were getting ready to have a civil war.
Churchill flew to Athens, to try and settle the differences. The communists figured that the british troops would be bombed out of their minds on Boxing Day and planned to attack their barracks. And possibly kill or capture Churchill.
The british commander, General Scobie, got wind of their plans and kept the troops in barracks and sober.
There was quite a major battle on the road to Pireaus. The communists had no real heavy weapons, or air, and were stonked badly.
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Surprisingly, nothing seems to be handy on the fighting on the Pireaus road.
Got the story from a Greek officer, who was obviously a rightist, and a british naval officer, at a reception in Athens in 1972.
It's a very complicated situation which led to a bloody civil war. The nearest I can find is very political, with no real information on the fighting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekemvriana
The Greek indicated that what ended the Civil War was the split between Stalin and marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Prior to that the communists had a base with protection inside Yugoslavian territory.
When Tito split, the Greek communists lost all support. They were soon reduced to bank robbery to support themselves, and this clear descent to criminal gangs, lost them the support of the Greek populace.