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| KKE Gen. Sec. Dimitris Koutsoumbas at the DSE memorial (Source: 902.gr) |
Theotokos, Greece - With the participation of hundreds members, supporters and friends of the Communist Party (KKE) and its youth wing (KNE), as well as numerous locals, the inauguration of the Memorial-museum dedicated to the heroic, communist-backed guerrilla Democratic Army of Greece (1946-1949) took place in the mountain of Gramos, at the northern Greek prefecture of Ioannina.
The General Secretary of the CC of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas unveiled the memorial, while the major speech was delivered by the member of the CC of the Party Dimitris Gontikas. The names of 438 Democratic Army fighters, natives of the Gramos and Smolikas mountainous area, are inscripted in plagues surrounding the memorial.
The broader area of Mount Gramos was a major field of fight between the guerrilla Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) and the bourgeois Greek Army during the 1946-1949 civil war. During the last year of the war, in 1949, the U.S. imperialists (allies of the Greek government) introduced a new weapon which they used against the heroic fighters of the DSE- that was the Napalm B bomb.
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| Source: 902.gr |
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| Source: 902.gr |
As the CC of the KKE has underlined on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Democratic Army of Greece, the three-year struggle of the DSE was just, heroic and magnificent. It expressed the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population against the interests of their oppressors and exploiters. It expressed the interests of the working class and its basic allies, the impoverished farmers and poor urban self-employed strata. Bourgeois state power at that time faced the greatest danger to its existence .The struggle of the DSE was the supreme expression of the class struggle in Greece during the 20th century.
The Democratic Army of Greece's struggle inspired foreign poets of a global standing, like Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, Paul Eluard and others.
Today the DSE's struggle inspires many and also annoys the class enemy and those that have compromised with it. The bourgeoisie and those involved in its mechanisms have unleashed enormous slanders against the Democratic Army of Greece.
The bourgeoisie and its supporters slander and distort the struggle of the DSE, because they well know that it represented the highest form of struggle, in a period when a class conflict over power was being waged in an objective sense. They polemicize against it because their interests lie in concealing the source of all injustice, i.e. the contradiction between capital and wage labour. Their interests lie in impeding the working class and popular forces from realizing the necessity and timeliness of socialism.
