HHF Presents
The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is committed to supporting Hellenic education, culture and heritage initiatives across Canada. Its award-winning History Committee creates public history projects for a diaspora audience. This podcasting channel “HHF Presents” seeks to inform and narrate stories from our Greek past.
HHF Presents
Greece's Darkest Decade - Civil War. Episode Two: The White Terror
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Hellenic Heritage Foundation
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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The Varkiza Agreement of 1945 was supposed to bring a truce between the Nationalists and the Communists. How then, did the country plunge into a civil war over a year later on March 31, 1946? Guest Iasonas Rodopoulos, PhD candidate at York University, helps us make sense of the economic hardships faced by the Greek people, while Prof. Neni Panourgia of Columbia University, explains how the many on the left faced persecution by armed right-wing paramilitary groups.