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Greece.

When Greece was under German and Italian occupation in World War 2 the resistance movement was largely led by Communists. When the wartime occupation ended fighting betweent the Greek government and the Communist guerrillas erupted and in 1944-45 Britain supported the Greek government, and continued to do when civil war again broke out in Greece in 1946.

In 1947 the British government informed an astonished US administration that it simply didn't have the money or troops to carry on fighting in Greece. (At the same Britain was preparing to withdraw from its larger possessions in Asia. The US had little idea how badly depleted post war Britain was ...

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