The Greek 1917

Sam Mendes' war epic "1917" has captured the attention of audiences and critics alike; it's also an Oscar favorite. Watching the film made me think about Greece's experience in the Great War.

For Greece, World War I was not so much trenches and military operations as it was domestic turmoil - both political as well as social. The National Schism was civil strife without military operations but with fanaticism, hatred and blood nevertheless.

According to the younger generation of foreign historians, the First World War did not end in November of 1918 but in September of 1922. In other words, they deem that the Ukraine intervention (1918-19) and, most importantly, the Asia Minor campaign functioned as a tail to the Great War, which however are ignored by the British and the Western Europeans.
If the failed campaign in Ukraine was due, to a certain degree, to Russia...

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