- αρχικά με μια 1η άμεση αντίδραση-διαμαρτυρία στο Λευκό Πύργο Θεσσαλονίκης στις 5/3/2022 (εδώ)
- μια βδομάδα αργότερα με μεγάλη συγκέντρωση - πορεία στις 13/3/2022 στους κεντρικούς δρόμους της Θεσσαλονίκης (εδώ)
- και στη συνέχεια με μηχανοκίνητη πορεία με στάση έξω από το Προξενείο των ΗΠΑ, στις 2/4/2022 (εδώ)
εδώ και λίγες ημέρες είχαμε την τιμή να επικοινωνήσει μαζί μας ο Ρώσσος ιστορικός Nickolai Selishchev, ο οποίος μάλιστα όπως μας είπε έχει Ελληνικές ρίζες,
« My relatives were of the Greek origin, they left Greece in the 18 th century and arrived toRussia. They never forgot their origin and this fact became a point of family’s verbal tradition.Keeping the Greek surname, they became the Russian officials and officers. I tried to know inthe modern Greece, from which Greek locality (island) they had origin. I proposed to pay moneyfor several scientific centers in Athens for research. All these centers even didn’t answer me! So,the question isn’t in Mitsotakis Jr. or in Evangelos Venizelos. If the governing circle prefers toforget any traces of the glorious national past, the consequences can be numerous – fromdemography to the sea security (or non-security).»
As a preface I must explain, that I studied the beautiful scientific work «The Battle of Crete» (ISBN 960-7897-41-2), which was published in Athens, in 2000 year by Hellenic Army General Staff Army Historic Directorate. The Greek edition was prepared in 1959 year by Lieutenant-General Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, the English edition in 2000 year – by Lieutenant-General Ioannis Kakoudakis. He writes in Prologue: «The resistance offered by the Allied (British and Commonwealth) forces, the Hellenic Army troops and the armed and unarmed civilians on the island delayed the Germans by six weeks in implementing their «Operation Barbarossa», the invasion of the Soviet Union. Thus, the sacrifices of the participants in this battle indirectly contributed to the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany in the war».
I wanted to check up this conclusion and after my study of our military sources I understood, that this conclusion is absolutely true, although, unfortunately, isn’t known in Russia. From the other side, the numerous Russian and Serb military sources are unknown in Greece. By I found, that the significance of the successful military efforts of the Greek and Allied troops on Crete was even much more serious, as Army Historic Directorate thinks.
Of course, the Greek and Allied troops left Crete, but Germany suffered catastrophic losses in airborne landing forces. Germany not only lost six weeks in its preparations, but it had to change «Barbarossa» plan and rejected to use mass airborne landings against us. We could move to frontier important reserves, which played decisive role from the beginning of war.
Because of the fact, that I wrote only an article, not a book, I hadn’t place to give all references. When I used the HAGS edition, I didn’t quote it, but set out (explained) with some my commentaries. For example, I bought the rare disk of historical Greek speeches and military marches, I know the history of military technics etc. I checked up the way of enemy’s (the German, the Austrian) generals, which attacked Greece, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Russia. I know the history of the Greek Alexandria’s community, so I explained, why the Greek forces were evacuated from Crete to this port. So, I could add the information in HAGS edition.
I explained in my publication of 2009 year the genealogical and some biographical details about the Greek Royal family and about some Greek and Serb statesmen. As far as admiral A.Sakellariou, it must be underlined, that to reconstruct his way was the most difficult. I found only some Greek traces, although among the serious sources. As far as the Serb circles, I studied the different Serb materials, including the collective Serb work about the Patriarch Gavriil and his political ideas.
Having aim during years, I collected sources for biographical reconstruction. For example, in Athens I bought very old issue of «Εκκλησια»-periodical (at 15th May 1968 year) with obituary about metropolitan Dionisios (Papanikolopoulos), the former priest of cruiser «Avertof». Later in the Synod’s Moscow Library I studied the 5th volume of ΘΗΕ (1964 year) with other variant of his biography. In my publication of 2009 year there is the summary from the both these sources.
Of course, I informed A.A.Senin, that the Greek military army’s attaché, who officially worked in Moscow, politely gifted me this edition of the Greek General Staff. A.A.Senin didn’t express any disagreement. For illustration I proposed the photo of cruiser «Averof» from one Greek edition, which I bought in 1995 year, when I visited Poros island. A.A.Senin agreed and sent this photo to newspaper’s issue and to web-site.
I must add, that the former Greek naval attaché, who officially worked in Moscow, told me in telephone talk (when we discussed in English the common strategic situation of 1941 year), that admiral Sakellariou in 1941 year saved the gold reserve of Greece and transferred it in emigration. So, I hadn’t possibility to consider in my article all aspects, but I kept them in my mind during the work. I translated into English all my publication of 2009 year, which in Russian has 32 500 symbols in its computer variant.
Η μετάφραση της δημοσίευσης:
How Yugoslavia and Greece helped us on the eve of the Great Patriotic war
18th December 1940 year Hitler signed directive No
21 Barbarossa about war with Soviet Union, about annihilation of Russia and
Russian people. The date of invasion – 15th May 1941 year. Why the
war was began much more later – 22nd June 1941 year?
Hitler, already invaded to the Soviet Union, declared at 16th
July 1941 year: «The main keynote is
– the creation of military power westwards Ural never wouldn’t be stay again on
the agenda of the day, if we would
fight for it one hundred years. All Fuhrer’s followers must know, that Reich would be in security only when westwards from Ural wouldn’t be the
enemy’s troops». On the occupied territory military-transport «Junkers-52» aircrafts had to drop bombs to the Russian peaceful
population and to annihilate it by the way – «…to shooting everybody, who cast a
side-long glance at the German» («Military
Historical Magazine», 1994, No 4, p. 70 – 72).
It is common talks about «Anti-Comintern (Trilateral) pact» of
Germany – Italy – Japan and their satellites. But this pact was rough camouflage. Mussolini in the past was scandalous-known
socialist, who appealed to class’s struggle. Becoming «duce», Mussolini named Italy as «fascist-proletarian»
country, as testified de Gaulle in the
third (non-published in Russia) volume of his memoires – «La salut 1944-1946» (see fragment in «Military
Historical Magazine», 1991, No. 2, p. 3 – 7).
Among the German Nazi there were many former social-democrats
and even communists, which worked in the propagandist department of Goebbels.
Greece and Yugoslavia at those
time were the Orthodox monarchies. In Greece on the last before-war elections
(26th January 1936 year) the weak Communists in alliance with other
lefts stood as All-people front, which, meanwhile, received less than 6 per
cent of votes and only 15 seats from 300 in parliament. They couldn’t influence
to parliament’s decisions. But at 4th August 1936 year General
Ioannis Metaksas in agreement of king George II dismissed the parliament and
all political parties. Non-party’s right monarchist regime remained in Greece
and after the enigmatical death of Metaksas until to the day of the German
invasion at 6th April 1941 year.
In Yugoslavia
parties didn’t play significant role, bit communist party remained out of law
since the epoch of king Alexander Karageorgievich (he was assassinated in 1934
year).
The German invasion
to Greece and Yugoslavia wasn’t «a struggle with Communist International», but
was the struggle for Lebensraum – «for vital space»,
for
Serb copper, for Greek merchant
fleet, for harvest, which was confiscated from Orthodox Serb and Greek
peasants. After beginning of the occupation of Yugoslavia, Nazis sent an agent to old politician Nikola Uzunovich,
the prime-minister of royal Yugoslavia in 1926 – 1927 years and in 1934 year
and hard Serb nationalist. They proposed
him to sign an anti-communist appeal, but received the rejection: «Today there is
war, and in the military time I don’t sign anything. We shall decide our
affaires on the elections, by the political way, but not with the help of
Germans».
In the circles of Damaskinos (Papandreu) (+1949), Archbishop (First Hierarch) of Athens, there was the same opinion.
[*In the following paragraph of my publication of 2009 year I used in brief the detailed information from the following Greek book: Ηλία Βενέζη Αρχιεπίσκοπος Δαμασκηνός. Οι χρόνοι της δουλείας. Βιβλιοπωλείον της «Εστίας», Ι.Α.Κολλάρου & Σιας Α.Ε. Αθήνα, 1981. This book is absent even in the gigantic State Russian Library in Moscow, which has multi-million collection of books on all languages, including little Greek section. Being young historian-journalist, in 1998 year I had seen this book in one provincial book-shop in Greece. Unfortunately, the book-shop was closed, but charming Greek lady opened it and permitted me to choose books and to buy them. Having interest to Damaskinos’s biography, I was joyful to buy this book for 2600 Drachmes of those times.]
The Germans and the Italians organized in Greece the terrible hunger, closed maternity hospitals and common hospitals. The occupants caught the Greek boys and depraved them.
[In Greek original there is the following phrase – Χιλιαδες παιδιά εξωσχολικής ηλικίας αλήτευαν, ἤ συναναστρέφονταν τούς Γερμανούς και τούς Ιταλούς, ἤ έκαναν μαύρο εμπόριο, p. 167].
To save children from «the new order» became the aim of the Church, which created her own network of midwifes and hospital nurses, they helped to orphans and women in childbirth at home [I meant the church organization Ε.Ο.Χ.Α. and its activity]. The fascists became furious.
[I translated from Greek to Russian one dialogue and gave it in my
publication of 2009 year in the Russian translation. In the Greek original (p.
252 – 253) this dialogue is the following:
«Ο Πληρεξούσιος της Ιταλίας, ο Chigi, ρώτησε την προϊστάμενη της Υπηρεσίας της
προστασίας απορφανισθεισών οικογενειών:
--- Γιατί δίνετε
χρήματα μόνο σέ οικογένειες εκτελεσθέντων και όχι και σε οικογένειες τσολιάδων
των Ταγμάτων Ασφαλείας;
--- Δεν μπορώ, Εξοχώτατε.
--- Γιατί δεν παίρνετε θέσιν ως ιθύνουσα τάξις εναντίον του κομμουνισμού;
--- Όταν θα φύγετε, κύριε, θα πάρουμε θέση. Τώρα είμαστε όλοι Έλληνες.
Ηταν ή θέσις της Αρχιεπισκοπής»].
And in war against the Soviet Union anticommunism was lie for
paralyze and destroy our resistance. Goebbels wrote at 29th March
1941 year in diary:
