Christina
Alexopoulos
Περίληψη
The article first situates the historical context of the declaration of
repentance, weapon of propaganda and expression of anti-communism, largely
employed by the Greek regimes before, during and after the Greek civil war. It studies the discourse of
the declaration, its ideological foundations, its functioning, its impact on
the subjectivity of the signatories as well as its impact on political and
social life. It analyses the successive legal texts that denied
political prisoners the recognition of their status and institutionalised the
declaration of repentance as the only alternative to imprisonment and
deportation. In the context of the civil war, the prisoners had to
choose between persisting in their 'ideological error' and the rejection of
their political or military action against the Nazi occupation, the
collaborative militias and the governmental army. It analyses how the
declaration destroyed the prisoner morally, robbed him of his identity, his
social face, an entire part of his history and especially his dignity, and how
it could lead to a complete transfomation of the signatory, forced to adopt the
ideology of his enemies. Finally governmental propaganda on these declarations
seals the exclusion of the left from the political landscape of the country.
Pour citer cet article
Référence
papier
Christina Alexopoulos, « La déclaration de repentir dans la
Grèce des années 1940», Cahiers
balkaniques, 38-39 | 2011, 85-98.
Référence
électronique
Christina Alexopoulos, « La déclaration de repentir dans la
Grèce des années 1940», Cahiers
balkaniques [En ligne], 38-39 | 2011, mis en ligne le 30 novembre
2011, consulté le 21 octobre 2012. URL : http://ceb.revues.org/773
