Mostly Athens after '50 is covered with high buildings, but still remain some hidden places that you can discover the modern history of Athens. Like this wounded building from bullets from December 1944, only two months the nazis troops left Greece. After the resignation of left ministers from the government without clear reason, the huge rally of 3rd December was shot from the police, 28 people killed and many wounded. This signaled the beginning of the "Dekemvrianá" (Greek: Δεκεμβριανά, "the December events"), a 37-day period of full-scale fighting in Athens between EAM fighters and smaller parts of ELAS, and the forces of the British army and the government. This has a result the kill of 70.000 people, a bad agreement between the leftist and the government, and prisons, exile, executes for thousand people that have involved in resistance against Nazis and in clashes during December 1944. Many places in Athens have still the remains, the wounds and the memories of the great resistant against nazis, and the bloody December of 1944, while Greece is already liberated...
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