Οι πολιτικοί πρόσφυγες της Έδεσσας 1946-1949 και ο επαναπατρισμός τους

Abstract

It has been several years since the real socialism in Eastern European countries was dissolved and the end of the Cold War that divided the world into a communist east and a capitalist west. The countries of Eastern Europe became the countries of the former Eastern Europe, the former socialist countries from the period of communism to the period of post-communism. All of the above illustrate the transitional stage of societies and the unable to perceive them differently. The present research deals with the forced migration of populations during the civil war, who took refuge as political refugees in the former Eastern European countries and lived there until the end of the civil war in Greece. More specifically, it explores the impression of this process in memory by the example of more personal experiences of people who fled the civil war as political refugees from the region of Edessa. The following semi-structured interview was used to carry out the following work and research through which the themes were analyzed. The sample was collected using the avalanche method, consisting of 5 political refugees who had been active during the civil war and were later identified in countries of former socialism. The primary sources end with the personal testimony of a descendant of a political refugee who was born and raised in overtime. Secondary sources were included to enhance the historical research. Specifically, both the interviews of the eleven personal experiences of political refugees and the photographic material reported were analyzed. The archives of the Social History, newspapers and magazines with articles in this period have also played an important role. From the qualitative analysis it was observed that the Greeks who fled to Eastern European countries as political refugees were sufficient and in some cases joined, while in others not in the local community, in others they were forced to relocate to the next countries. It is also observed that in almost all cases political refugees have always wanted to maintain their national identity, customs and habits, always having in mind that their stay in these host countries is temporary and that their return is a day of repatriation close. Indeed, this paper analyzes and describes the way in which more political refugees were repatriated after the end of the civil war. Finally, the interviews conducted further deepened the experiences of the political refugees in Edessa, the 7 life they lived in, the countries they fled to, and the way they were repatriated. The plethora of research questions favored further deepening and analysis of this topic