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Please join hosts Tom, Basil, and other friends of the pod, navigate Hellenic history, culture and other niche and forgotten historical events, all while being constantly reminded of the depravity, uprightness, and incompetence of men. Good laughs are always welcome.  https://linktr.ee/DiogenesLampPodcast

  1. APR 30

    Guest Speaker Series Ep.17: Defense & Deterrence In the Eastern Mediterranean with Polity21

    Konstantino’s Article "Even Dead He Would Win": The Iran War and the Resurrection of the Joint Defence Area Doctrine" https://substack.com/@polity21blog/note/p-194110218?r=4cspa7&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web Hey everyone! For today’s episode I was able to bring onto the pod Konstantinos Kolokotronis. Konstantinos is an independent journalist and researcher who focusses on geopolitics and contemporary power politics in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.  The discussion we had was on an article Konstantinos wrote titled "Even Dead He Would Win": The Iran War and the Resurrection of the Joint Defence Area Doctrine" which zooms in on the Joint Defense Area Doctrine.  Aside from his article, we also covered a variety of topics, like international law, the realist view of international relations, Greek security concerns, treaties that outline the status of these islands (the Treaty of Laussane, the 1947 Paris Peace treaty, etc etc) Turkish aggression and expansionism in the Aegean, the limits of International law, in a world without a global police.  Please check out Konstantinos’s work on substack.com/@polity21blog  Thanks again, and please support the work of independent historians, researches, and journalists like the guests we have on this show. Support the show! link for Patreon, Youtube, Instagram,  https://linktr.ee/DiogenesLampPodcast Support the show !  Support the show Support the show

    1h 2m

  2. APR 16

    Ep. 38: The Government in the Mountains (PEEA) & The Middle East Mutiny

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we'll zoom in on EAM'S next big move, the Government in the mountains (the PEEA), and what is known as the Middle East Mutiny.  Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Please Support Dr. Tsoutsoumpis's new book, for now in Greek language only.  EDES & ELAS: The Popular Armies of the Resistance: https://www.epbooks.gr/shop/biblia-gia-enilikes/istoria-martyries/edes-kai-ellas-oi-laikoi-stratoi-tis-a/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExbjlUamNxUkZpbWtPZUFTR3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7dH90Z-3XqAJ_2dg2CxfDg0QfQ9L-VlRuZ_Qcp4Ylof3ac9uJvHdHhWLdLGA_aem_txF7YnH4GeNKTm856HSI7w Support the show Support the show

    32 min

  3. APR 9

    Ep. 37: Civil War, the SOE & the Plaka Agreement

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we'll zoom in on the hierarchical structure British intelligence/resistance operations inside of occupied Greece, take a look at the fallout from the ongoing inter-Ahndartiko conflict, and end the episode with the Plaka Agreement which ended the *first* round of the Greek Civil War.... Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Please Support Dr. Tsoutsoumpis's new book, for now in Greek language only.  EDES & ELAS: The Popular Armies of the Resistance: https://www.epbooks.gr/shop/biblia-gia-enilikes/istoria-martyries/edes-kai-ellas-oi-laikoi-stratoi-tis-a/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExbjlUamNxUkZpbWtPZUFTR3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7dH90Z-3XqAJ_2dg2CxfDg0QfQ9L-VlRuZ_Qcp4Ylof3ac9uJvHdHhWLdLGA_aem_txF7YnH4GeNKTm856HSI7w Support the show

    22 min

  4. APR 2

    Ep. 36: The First Round of the Greek Civil War

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we take a look at what is considered the start of the first round of the civil war. We'll zoom in on the actions of ELAS, EDES & the Germans, and will touch on a few smaller outfits as well.  Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Support the show Support the show Support the show

    28 min

  5. MAR 26

    Ep. 35: Bella Ciao, & the End of Italian Rule in Greece

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we continue our red march to civil war, and take one last look at the Spaghetti Eaters, the Makaronades...the Italians. We'll cover what the Italian occupation looked like on the ground, how their surrender and elimination was carried out, and what this means for our Ahndartes.  Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Support the show Support the show

    25 min

  6. MAR 19

    Ep. 34: A Dead Welshman, Operation Animals, & the Cairo Delegation

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we continue our red march to civil war, Myers and the SOE do their best to stop the Ahndartes from killing each other and to focus their energies on the occupiers, and a botched trip to Cairo shows the divergence in vision between those outside of Greece, and those within.  Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Support the show Support the show Support the show

    26 min

  7. MAR 12

    Guest Speaker Series Ep.17: From Epirus to Mani: The Politics & Realities of Self Preservation & Collaboration in the Civil War

    Hey everyone For Todays episode, I was able to get onto the pod, Dr. Spyros Tsoutsoumpis who is a professor at the University of Manchester, and an author of several articles and books on the Greek civil war.  Dr. TsouTsoumpis…has been studying this topic, for almost 2 decades…20 years. Aside from writing his book : “A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War: The people’s armies“ He has also read thousands of books, thousands of pages of documents, and he has interviewed hundreds of people whose lives have been either directly or indirectly affected by this conflict. As the conversation progresses, this will become very evident.  The conversation itself was supposed to be mostly on EDES and the infamous shift that Zervas took in 1943 when he changed his stance on the King returning to Greece, something we covered last episode…BUT this event quickly turned into a bigger conversation on the politics and the realities of shifting loyalties and collaboration during the civil war. We talked about the role that political ambition, opportunism, revenge and survival all played in the war, and how these in many cases served as justifications or excuses as to why one person, family, or entire villages decided to go with the left, or the right…with ELAS, or EDES….with the Communists or the Royalists.  We also talked about how this event is interpreted and remembered by the diaspora, versus in Greece, and ways we can responsibly reflect and remember it.  We touched on truly brutal stuff. Typical stuff for the times really... rape, murder, war crimes and that kind of thing, but it hit a little harder this time because the conversation took a turn south, geographically to my ancestral region of Mani. For the non Greek listeners, or just people that don't speak Greek in general, there will be some phrases and words Dr Tsoutsoumpis and myself use that are not in English.  When I say Mikri Moskve, that means Little Moscow, Eepourgos means Minister, like a Government Minister When Dr Tsoutsoumpis says Apo pou eisai he is saying “where are you from?” and when he says Mavro Horio , he means a Black village,  Vassiliki, and Fasistiki mean Royalist or Fascist. Please support Dr TsouTsoumpis’s work, Buy his book on amazon and read his other great articles he's written on these topics.  https://www.amazon.com/History-Greek-Resistance-Second-World/dp/1784992518 Support the show

    54 min

  8. MAR 5

    Ep. 33: More Turning Points: Zervas, ELAS, and the Security Battalions

    Hey Everyone! On today's episode, we'll continue the doomed march towards the first round of the civil war, touch base with those bloody Britts in London and in the SOE, and get an introduction to the new quisling Prime Minister and the Security Battalions.  Enjoy! Sources: Red Acropolis, Black Terror- Andre Gerolymatos Greece, 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War - Harris Vlavianos Inside Hitler's Greece - Mark Mazower Greece, The Decade at War, Occupation, Resistance & Civil War- David Brewer The Withered Vine, The Communist Insurgency in Greece -Charles Shrader A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies-Spyros Tsoutsoumpis Support the show Support the show Support the show

    25 min
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Please join hosts Tom, Basil, and other friends of the pod, navigate Hellenic history, culture and other niche and forgotten historical events, all while being constantly reminded of the depravity, uprightness, and incompetence of men. Good laughs are always welcome.  https://linktr.ee/DiogenesLampPodcast

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