Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) or "Mountain Government", 1944
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ The so-called Mountain Government of Alexandros Svolos (April 10, 1944 - October 9, 1944) was a continuation of the Mountain Government with Euripides Bakirtzis as president and was created on April 10, 1944, one month after the initial composition of the Political Committee of National Liberation, with initiative of EAM, in Viniani, Evrytania. National Liberation Front ("EAM"). Propaganda poster, 35 cm x 22 cm. Private collection. The "Political Committee for National Liberation" (P.E.A.A.) - also known as the "Mountain Government" - (March - September 1944) was the government formed by the E.A.M. and the parties and organizations collaborating with it, at the end of World War II, in Free Greece. Its purpose was the administration and organization of public life in the areas liberated from the Germans. At the same time, occupied Greece was ruled by the Dosilogian Ralli government and the country's government, recognized by the Allies, was in ...