Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret (Guardian) Greece, Athens. December 3, 1944. Police and British authorities shot at a peaceful demonstration.
[Anatoly R.](/people/69114030fbaa0134536e0242ac110007) - original post
“I still see it clearly, I have not forgotten,” recalls 86-year-old eyewitness Tito Patricios. “In Athens, the police fired at the crowd from the roof of Parliament in Syntagma Square.The young men and women were lying in pools of blood, the crowd rushed down the stairs in panic.”
The British army, still at war with Germany, issued weapons to local residents who collaborated with the Nazis to shoot civilians supporting partisans, with whom Britain was an ally for three years. The crowd carried Greek, American, British and Soviet flags, and chanted: "Long live Churchill, (...)