United Panhellenic Organization of Youth explained

United Panhellenic
Organization of Youth
Native Name:Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων
Colorcode:
  1. 2B9151
Founded:23 February 1943
Dissolved:1958
Ideology:Anti-fascism
Republicanism
Communism
Left-wing nationalism
Mother Party:EAM

The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων (ΕΠΟΝ)), was a Greek resistance organizationthat was active during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II.[1] EPON was the youth wing of the National Liberation Front (EAM) organization, and was established on 23 February 1943 after the merger of ten earlier political and resistance youth organizations. Along with EAM and its other affiliates, EPON was dissolved judicially at the beginning of the Greek Civil War but continued to operate illegally until 1958.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&artid=133571&ct=47 Η ΕΠΟΝ στην Κατοχή, Το Βήμα OnLine, 20/5/2001