Word: monarcho
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Last spring a TIME correspondent asked a Greek Communist leader how he could label the Greek Government "monarcho-fascist" when it permitted a Communist opposition press to operate in the heart of Athens. "They permit it," he said, "so foreigners can ask questions like that...
...paraders also carried double-life-size portraits of Stalin, Bulgarian Communist Boss Georgi Dimitroff and General Markos, self-proclaimed head of the "Free Greek State" (TIME, Aug. 25). The marchers' song told of the exploits of Greek guerrillas. Leaflets strewn in their wake read: "Death to Monarcho-Fascists; Out with Anglo-American invaders; Long live the Free Greek State." A poster showed a Greek guerrilla standing atop the Acropolis; in Bulgarian, French and English were the words: "Out of the flames and ruins of Anglo-American occupation and Monarcho-Fascism, a free and democratic Greece is rising...