The Greece Proposal:

By everyone's favourite ex-president: Woodrow Wilson

Background:
Greece, once the center of the known world, has seen better days. Despite brave and
determined resistance, the Greek army was crushed by the combined might of the Axis
powers. The territory of Greece was partitioned, Italy took Crete, the Turks were given
eastern Macedonia as a way of luring them into the Axis, and the remainder of Greece
was put under indefinite Italian occupation. While Italy initially struggled to find a leader
for there puppet state, they eventually settled on pro-Italian politician Sotirios
Gotzamanis, who has led Greece since.

Despite the beliefs of Mussolini, Italy had not seen the last of fighting in Greece.
Resistance groups were a constant nuisance towards Italian garrisons, and very quickly
Italy was forced to pull troops from other fronts in order to maintain control. As the years
dragged on, slowly but surely the Italians managed to put down the rebel groups. That
was until Atlantropa went online, which proved catastrophic towards Greece. In the
course of several months, nearly every Greek port was rendered useless. With the
collapse of the fishing industry, and the loss of agrarian lands, Greece rapidly moved
towards famine. With Italy either unwilling or unable to do anything, Greece experienced
it’s second Great Famine, with nearly 150,000 Greek civilians starving to death.

All of this combined to throw Greece into chaos, with it requiring intervention from the
three major Triumvirate powers in order to restore order. It has only been this
occupation that has kept Greece stable, though the occupation at its greatest extent
only controlled roughly 80% of the Country. With resistance groups still plotting, any sort
of withdrawal of the garrisons would likely lead to disaster.

Greece 1962:
As 1962 begins, Greece stands at the edge of chaos. The long time leader of Greece,
Sotirios Gotzamanis, is on death’s door. Having never quite recovered from a stroke he
had in 1958, many remain shocked at his continued survival. This, along with the
Triumvirate falling apart at the seems, has caused a massive increase in rebel activity.
The death of the Triumvirate in mid-1962 will cause the withdrawal of the Turkish and
Iberian garrisons, and force Italy to pull divisions out of Greece in order to reinforce
there borders in North Africa. As the rebel groups slowly regain control of the country,
the stress of having to fight another civil war will finally kill Sotirios Gotzamanis. Despite
Italian expectations, there will be no successor to him, all of his cronies will be to busy
arguing among themselves.

All of this combined will provide the opportunity the Resistance groups have been
waiting for, and in late 1963 a coup will replace the ineffective collaborators with a Pan-
Rebel Front.
The Second Agonas:

The new Greek government will immediately begin to rearm and prepare for war with
Italy. Italy, distracted with colonial issues and internal reforms will be unprepared for any
sort of intervention. Should Italy remain fascist, they will eventually launch a war in order
to reclaim control of Greece around early 1966. Should Italy go democratic, they will
attempt to negotiate with the Greek government, while Auth-Dem Italy will begin a naval
blockade and attempt to fund anti-government partisan groups. If Italy falls to anarchy,
Greece will simply declare independence and Italy will be completely unable to do
anything about it,

The new Government will be incredibly brittle, with it only surviving as long as they still
need to fight the Italians. Should they either fight off the Italians, or should Italy either be
uninterested or dealing with there own problems, a power struggle will begin for control
of Greece.

The power struggle will be between three groups: The democratic National Democratic
Greek League, led by interim president Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, the communist
National Liberation Front, whose leadership is disputed between the Socialist Nikos
Zachariadis and the communist Athanasios Klaras, and the national socialist Pan-
Hellenic Liberation Front, led by Nationalist Dimitrios Ioannidis.

The National Democratic Greek League:

Should the NRGL win the post-independence power struggle, they will attempt to move
Greece towards democracy. They will have to mop up the remnants of the opposing
factions, and will prepare for the 1968 elections. The elections will be contested
primarily by 3 different groups:

The New Democratic Coalition: A coalition of the Social Liberals and Market
Liberals, the party supports the re-election of Konstantinos G. Karamanlis. Once in
power they will focus primarily on rebuilding the Greek economy, and will also give
lenient sentences towards remaining Socialists and Fascists. They would also be open
to negotiating with Italy if they both have like minded governments. They will seek to
maintain and moderately expand the Greek military.

The Hellenic Socialist Movement: A coalition of the Social Democrats and the
remaining Socialists, the party supports the election of Andreas Georgios
Papandreou. Once in power they will focus both on rebuilding the Greek economy and
creating and expanding a proper welfare system for Greece. Should Italy also go
democratic, they will pursue negotiations in the attempt to create a lasting peace
between the two. They would also pardon any remaining socialists and fascists, and
would be willing to give fair trials for any remaining collaborators. In order to expand the
welfare system, they will likely take out loans from various countries, which will totally
not backfire horribly. They also will largely neglect the army, which is a great idea in
TNO Europe.

The Greek Monarchist Party: A coalition of the Social Conservatives and any
remaining Monarchists, the party supports the election of Georgios Grivas. As the
name would imply, the party supports the return of the king of Greece, Constantine II,
and will support a referendum on the matter. They will focus primarily on building up the
army, and are the most expansionist of all of the Greek democratic parties. The
economy under them will grow slower then under the other two parties, and their saber
rattling could provoke a war with there two much larger neighbors. While they’re willing
to negotiate with Italy, there desire to have Crete, Cyprus, and the Docandese returned
to them will make any negotiations unlikely to succeed.

All three of the parties will attempt to improve relations with the OFN, and should the
OFN manage to break into the Mediterranean, they will naturally request to join the
organisation.

The National Liberation Front:

The NLF is the most likely of the three groups to take power in the power struggle, and
will upon gaining power will find themselves in a power struggle. As previously noted the
struggle will be between the leader of the Communist Party of Greece, Nikos
Zachariadis, and the Greek People's Liberation Army leader Athanasios Klaras.

The Communist Party of Greece: The CPG is the most likely winner, and Greece
will be led by Nikos Zachariadis. The party will attempt to rebuild the Greek economy
through the use of Socialist Economics, and will be less then forgiving with any
remaining Collaborators, Fascists, and Republicans. The party also supports the ideas
of People’s Democracy, and will attempt to reform Greece into one. They will
moderately support the army, and despite ideological issues, will still see the OFN as
the lesser of all evils. Should Italy go Communist, Socialist, or Social Democrat they
would be willing to enter into negotiations with them over Crete, and possibly form a
European Communist bloc.

The Greek People’s Liberation Army: The less likely of the two to win the power
struggle, the GPLA is led by Athanasios Klaras. The army will be disbanded to be
replaced by the GPLA, and any remaining army officers who are less then loyal will
have a terrible 9mm headache. The GPLA will purge any remaining Collaborators,
Fascists, Republicans, and Socialists that didn’t support them in the power struggle.
GPLA ruled Greece will likely meet most cold war stereotypes for Eastern Bloc
countries: Poor, Economically mismanaged, Isolated, Authoritarian, and Paranoid.
Should Italy go communist, they will attempt to form a New European International, and
would be interested in spreading the revolution to neighboring countries.

The Pan-Hellenic Liberation Front:

The least likely group to win the post-war power struggle, the PHLF is led by Dimitrios
Ioannidis. Upon gaining power they will launch purges against there remaining
opponents, and begin to introduce full scale Totalitarianism into Greece. Extremely
revanchist over the treatment Greece received over the previous decades, the PHLF
will be extremely eager for territorial expansion. In order to fulfill these dreams, the
PHLF will attempt to enter the Unity Pakt, and will exploit any war between the Unity
Pakt and Italy/Turkey as a way to create Greater Greece.

Under them the army will be built up massively, mostly through loans and German
Surplus, and they will attempt to restructure the economy around corporatism. They’re
the only path interested in pursuing the Megali Idea, and should they conquer western
Anatolia they will engage in some less than savory behavior.
Should Germany either reject there entrance into the Pakt, or should the Pakt full on
collapse, they will attempt to go it alone and attack Turkey/Italy. This likely won’t go very
well for them.

Italian Occupation:

Should Italy manage to retake Greece, they will be have to decide who to put incharge.

Should Italy be fascist, they will likely put pro-collaboration politican Georgios
Papadopoulos into power. He’ll struggle with issues of legitimacy and likely be rather
ineffective.

Should Italy fall to National Socialism, they can decide that putting native Greeks in
power is more trouble than it’s worth. They will instead install General Mario Roatta as
leader of an Italian Occupational Authority (basically an Italian RK). Known as one of
the most brutal Italian generals of the war, at times even managing to one up the
Germans, Roatta will rule Greece with an iron fist, and will likely only create more
problems for the Italians. Upon his death he will be succeeded by a different Italian
general, who will likely change little.

And in the unlikely scenario that Democratic/socialist Italy find themselves in control of
Greece, they will put a like minded government in power.

Ultra Secret UltNat Byzantium path:

This doc is already rather long, so I made a second doc for this, here’s the link
https://goo.gl/JnwZxQ
(And before you ask no this is not a thing. Byzantium is dead, deal with it. Just saying
that makes me feel like a hero.)

People mentioned in the doc:

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotirios_Gotzamanis
Leader of Italian Puppet state at game start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Papadopoulos
Collaborator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Roatta
Italian re-occupation Leader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Bakos
Natsoc General

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_Ioannidis
Greek Nat-Soc leader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Vafeiadis
Greek Socialist General

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Zachariadis
Greek Socialist Leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aris_Velouchiotis
Greek Communist Leader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Grivas
Greek Soc-Con Leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos_Karamanlis
Greek Soc-Lib Leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Papandreou
Greek Soc-Dem Leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_II_of_Greece
King of Greece in Exile
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