1944 Greek naval mutiny

Mutiny on five ships of the Greek Navy thumb|Newspaper created by imprisoned pro-EAM mutineers The 1944 Greek naval mutiny was a mutiny by sailors on five ships of the Royal Hellenic Navy in April 1944 over the composition of the Greek government-in-exile, in support of the National Liberation Front (EAM). Petros Voulgaris was called from retirement and appointed vice-admiral to quell the revolt. The revolt began in Alexandria.Jones Mark c. Misunderstood and Forgotten: The Greek Naval Mutiny of April 1944 Journal of Modern Greek Studies 2002 20 2 367–397 10.1353/mgs.2002.0026 144133142 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236771473 Sailors Revolutionary Commissions were formed both on ships and the naval shore establishments on 4 April 1944.Grigorios Mezeviris theitalianattack http://www.mezeviris.gr/mutiny.html www.mezeviris.gr 13 June 2018 13 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180613112348/http://www.mezeviris.gr/mutiny.html dead Grigorios Mezeviris The 1st Brigade of the Greek Armed Forces in the Middle East also suffered a EAM-inspired mutiny on 6 April 1944. The American philosopher James Burnham, writing in the Partisan Review, saw the mutiny as the start of a "Third World War" as the start of a geopolitical confrontation between the Western Allies and Soviet communism.Sempa Francis P. Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century 2002 Transaction Publishers New Brunswick 0-7658-0122-1 44 Ships involved Greek corvette Apostolis Greek corvette Sachtouris Greek destroyer Kriti Greek destroyer Ierax 1912 6 Greek destroyer Pindos References Further reading Spyropoulos Evangelos The Greek Military (1909-1941) and the Greek Mutinies in the Middle East (1941-1944) 1993 East European Monographs Boulder 9780880332576 Stavrianos L. S. The Mutiny in the Greek Armed Forces, April, 1944 American Slavic and East European Review 1950 9 4 302–311 10.2307/2492150 2492150 Category:1944 in Egypt Category:1944 in Greece Category:1944 conflicts Category:Communist rebellions Category:Communism in Greece Category:April 1944 in Europe Category:20th-century rebellions Category:20th century in Alexandria Category:Naval mutinies Category:Greece in World War II Category:History of the Hellenic Navy Category:Mutinies in World War II Category:Rebellions in Egypt Category:Rebellions in Greece Category:National Liberation Front (Greece)