The
symbol of communist atrocity in the southern part of Greece is Meligala: for
northern Greece it is Kilkis and with a significantly greater number of victims
too!
Let’s
begin at the start, on October 26 1944 Nazi troops left Kilkis. The city
immediately became a refuge for many nationalist fighters of Macedonia after
Thessaloniki fell to the communist forces of the EAM Bulgarians. Many residents
of the surrounding villages also descended on Kilkis fearing the gangs of the
pro Bulgarian Greek rebels known as the Comitatzis, who would certainly pass
through their villages with fire and iron!
The
defence of the city was organised by the Lieutenant of the National Army of
Greece Konstantinos Papadopoulos, who was a local.
Standing
against Kilkis were thousands of highly dedicated and well - armed communist
gangsters. They were desperate to overtake Kilkis for several reasons:
1. To exterminate the
nationalists who’d sought refuge there. The communist gangsters were afraid of
facing the nationalists who would oppose their plans to separate Macedonia and
Thrace from Greece and surrender these regions to the Bulgarian dogs.
2.
They
regarded Kilkis as a strategically important city due to its proximity to the
Yugoslavian border
3. To warn any Greek who
planned on opposing their traitorous actions that they will act without mercy,
as demonstrated in the massacres that they’d planned.
It was an
unequal battle that began at dawn on the fourth of November in Kilkis. The
resistance of the Greeks was heroic, but the lack of ammunition inevitably
forced the cessation of the fighting. That afternoon the EAM Bulgarian
Comitatzis enter Kilkis and like wild animals start to slaughter any Greek they
find before them! The final count of their victims reaches 7500!
They
admit to these terrible massacres themselves. I offer the following examples
from three communist sources:
1.
“In
any case the dead of the security battalions were thousands, not from the
battle but mostly from the courts of the people and in the acts of personal
retribution that followed. The leader of the Civil Protection Forces from ELAS (National
Hellenic Liberation Front -communists) in Kilkis, a man with the pseudonym
“Vrachos” (meaning rock) had lost his son during the Occupation, murdered by
the Security Battalions. There was no chance that he would show any mercy…” (“The Pontian Civil
War” or “The End Of The Security Battalions”, pontosandaristera.wordpress.com )
2. “The Roads Of Kilkis Were Full Of
Dead Bodies” (“The 13th Constitution of ELAS” by
Tsaniklidis”)
3.
“For three
days after the Liberation of Thessaloniki, ELAS followed them to Kilkis and
attacked with the result being the extermination of a significant amount of
people. People were murdered who shouldn’t have been or there should have been
some other form of punishment, but the hatred against those who had ruled over
the people of Thessaloniki was intense”. (“The Critical Decisions Of ELAS That Saved Thessaloniki On October
30, 1944” by Katerina Bakirtzi, left.gr)
An eternal curse on the EAM Bulgarian
murderers and their current political heirs!
Written by G Dimitrakopoulos, Retired Educator
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