The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on Sunday, October 27, in the village of Kottas of the Florina prefecture, the Central Committee of the KKE organised an event and unveiled a monument on the site where, a few years ago, the mass grave of 311 partisans of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) was discovered. The struggle of the DSE (1946–1949) was the climax of the class struggle in Greece in the 20th century, when the armed people under the leadership of the KKE clashed with the local bourgeoisie and its imperialist allies, Great Britain and the USA.
The DSE fought to build a socialist Greece during the Greek Civil War in the aftermath of World War II and the persecution of Communist partisans.
The General Secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, unveiled the monument and told the media:
“This event is in honour of the heroic fighters, the 311 dead of the DSE, who gave their lives here on the heights around the village of Kottas, for the freedom and honour of the people in the most climactic moment of the class struggle in Greece in those years. We honour their memory. We continue their fight, we continue the struggle.”
Later the same day, a similar event took place in the village of Kallithea, in the area of the Prespes lakes, where a monument was unveiled with the names of 1,600 DSE fighters who fell in the battles and who came from the 48 villages of the Prespes region and around Florina.
For more photos of the event see: Communist Party of Greece - Unveiling of monuments to the Democratic Army of Greece
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