The Author
31st December 2007, 05:26
http://www.marxists.org/subject/greek-civi...1950/01/21a.htm (http://www.marxists.org/subject/greek-civil-war/1950/01/21a.htm)
THE FORMER German princess and member of the Hitler Youth, Queen Frederika of Greece, has launched a world-wide campaign for the return of the so-called "abducted" children from the People's Democracies, and the whole capitalist press has taken up the clamour. But the fact remains that the children were not abducted, but were mercifully evacuated from Greece in 1948, to escape starvation and bombing, just as Spanish Republican children were evacuated in 1936 for similar reasons. At that time, it is interesting to note, Franco screamed "kidnapping" and " abduction".
It is clear from the above that Athens is not concerned with returning the children to their parents, but with a political campaign against the People's Democracies and Communism.
50 years before Elián González, it seems the bourgeois media used similar tactics in attacking the people's democracies and socialist states for "abducting children."
THE FORMER German princess and member of the Hitler Youth, Queen Frederika of Greece, has launched a world-wide campaign for the return of the so-called "abducted" children from the People's Democracies, and the whole capitalist press has taken up the clamour. But the fact remains that the children were not abducted, but were mercifully evacuated from Greece in 1948, to escape starvation and bombing, just as Spanish Republican children were evacuated in 1936 for similar reasons. At that time, it is interesting to note, Franco screamed "kidnapping" and " abduction".
It is clear from the above that Athens is not concerned with returning the children to their parents, but with a political campaign against the People's Democracies and Communism.
50 years before Elián González, it seems the bourgeois media used similar tactics in attacking the people's democracies and socialist states for "abducting children."