Stalin's Curse by Robert Gellately

Author:Robert Gellately [Gellately, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-96235-5
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece

Far to the south and west of Moscow, indigenous Communist resistance movements struggled against the Nazi invaders. Yugoslavia and Albania did not owe their liberation to the Red Army, but such was the attraction of Stalin as leader, and so prized were the “accomplishments” he represented, that the two new regimes engaged in what can only be called “self-Stalinization.” Greece did not fit this pattern. The Communists there had long since become a force to be reckoned with; they were embroiled in bitter, continuing, and often violent feuds with oppositional political forces; and they stood out in that they managed to provoke Churchill into a serious effort to save Greece from falling into the arms of the Soviets. The Greek Communists, it has to be said, did feel a kinship with the “great man” in the Kremlin. At the same time, they had a unique identity forged in their own bloody conflict and did not yield easily to direction of the kind Stalin was offering. In the context in which they found themselves, his “go slowly and don’t worry the Allies” mandate must have seemed very much out of place.

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