United Panhellenic Organization of Youth
United Panhellenic Organization of Youth Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων | |
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| Founded | 23 February 1943 |
| Dissolved | 1958 |
| Ideology | Anti-fascism Republicanism Communism Left-wing nationalism |
| International affiliation | World Federation of Democratic Youth |
Booklet with the charter of EPON, 1943
The house where EPON was founded, Ampelokipoi, Athens.
The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON (Greek: Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων (ΕΠΟΝ)), was a Greek resistance organization
that 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.
See also
- Young Communist League of Greece
References
^ Η ΕΠΟΝ στην Κατοχή, Το Βήμα OnLine, 20/5/2001
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