The Western Macedonia Organizations of the KKE and the KNE are organizing a two-day visit to one of the most beautiful places in the region this year as well., in Nestorio, Kastoria.
It is the continuation of the efforts made by the Organizations in the region so that the working class and its youth can learn from the history of their place., to be inspired by the action of the communists then and now, to draw valuable conclusions about his struggle against exploitation today, but also to get to know the nature and the unique landscapes of the area.
The two-day event acquires special importance this year as we move towards the completion of the celebration of 100 years of our Party and of 50 years since the founding of KNE.
The two-day program in detail:
Saturday 16 June
– 17.00pm. in Spanoura Kotylis in Grammos (position Charos) There will be a speech by Rafael Tzevelekis, member of the Regional Office of Western Macedonia of KNE. This year they are completed 71 years since the heroic sacrifice of the DSE fighters in Spanoura Kotylis. In the battle of Spanoura, in July 1947, the DSE group holding the position was faced with a battalion, 8 Napalm cannons and air squadron. The hill was taken by the civilian army only when the group commander was first killed and then the last three fighters fell off the cliff to avoid surrender..
– Departure to the camp at the site of the Cultural Association (next to the KEP), where there will be free time to accommodate the campers.
– 20.30pm. book presentation in the village of Nestorio of the publication of the Ideological Committee of the Central Committee of the KNE "Moments from the life and action of the KNE in illegality" by Tonia Salvarina, member of the Regional Office of Western Macedonia of KNE
– A folk party with Simos Tsoumanas and his orchestra will follow.
Sunday 17 June
– Departure from Nestorio at 9.30 p.m.. for the ascent to the top of Alevitsa where there will be a tour and unveiling of a monument. From the top of Alevitsa we get the feeling of space, of the distance between Ginova and Vitsi that the DSE crossed during the maneuver.
– Return to Nestorio where there will be free time for sports activities and swimming on the banks of Aliakmonas.
Soils with history
In their announcement, KKE and KNE Organizations in Western Macedonia call for mass participation in the two-day event and explain why they chose Nestorio for this year's two-day event.
"Nestorio is one of the most beautiful, but also heroic villages located on the slopes of Grammos. At the tops of Grammos were written some of the most glorious moments of the three-year epic of DSE.
We do not choose this location at random. This year they are completed 70 years since the great maneuver carried out by the DSE forces from Grammos in Vitsi.
The biggest civil war started on 14 June of 1948 in Grammos and ended with the maneuver of the DSE forces in Vitsi, at 20 to 21 August of the same year. The night 20 to 21 Of August 1948 the forces of the Democratic Army, after the 70 almost days of continuous and uninterrupted battles in the wider area of Grammos, m’ a strategic maneuver passed coordinates from Grammos to Vitsi.
In this way, they completely overturned the plan in practice “Crest” of the civilian army which he planned to get rid of in a few days with them “communist gangs”.
The maneuver of the Democratic Army is of particular importance as it is the outcome of the longest and hardest battle of the civil war.. The famous maneuver was an aggressive revolutionary move, People's Army. He showed the strong aggressive and heroic spirit of the Democratic Army, the ability to move fast and fall decisively onto the target.
With this maneuver, the DSE completely overturned all the allegations that were heard, that is, the Democratic Army was not a real revolutionary army but some gangs.
We learn from the three-year epic of the DSE (1946-1949), the tens of thousands of fighters who wrote pages of unparalleled heroism.
The thousands of young men and women who fought in the DSE. The DSE was staffed by ordinary people, workers, men and women of the countryside. The people themselves supported him with supplies, No potential, Not any kind of help.
After the liberation of the country from the fascist occupation, gangs chasing militants to crush workers in Greece raged – popular movement and the KKE. They were staffed by collaborators of the conquerors and assassins, protected by bourgeois political parties and state mechanisms With the assistance of the British Army.
The KKE and the workers – popular movement found itself in the face of the relentless dilemma: Submission or a new uprising. He chose, to walk the path of conflict and not that of submission and humiliation.
The struggle of the DSE was a response of the KKE to the orgy of civil violence that sought to overturn the correlation that had formed during the Occupation and liberation. It started as a struggle for pressure for democratic measures but objectively spread to an armed class conflict.
The DSE saved the honor of the people and the KKE. The three-year struggle of the DSE was necessary, fair, internationalist. It expressed the interests of the vast majority of the people and the youth against the interests of its exploiters and oppressors.
The action of the DSE was the greatest danger that the bourgeois state power has known for its very existence. The struggle of the DSE is one of the leading manifestations of the class struggle in Greece during the 20th century.
We continue on the same path!
We are inspired by the values and ideals that nurtured the DSE fighters. The DSE relied on conscious action and discipline. His struggle was largely inspired by KKE ideals for the abolition of human-to-human exploitation., to make the people masters in their place, against local and foreign tyrants.
Their heroic attitude, their morale stems from the belief that the wheel of society will move forward, how capitalism, that is, the system that breeds poverty for many, misery, the wars, while giving wealth and luxury to the few, will give way to another society that will be imposed by the people themselves. A society without exploitation, without wars, without poverty, that man will use all the possibilities to meet his needs. We continue this struggle on the side of the KKE and the KNE, inviting every employee with us, unemployed, pupils and students from the working class – popular families to build society in “boy of dreams and people”».
For any information, contact the local Organizations and the contact numbers: 24610 40217 and 6987089370
